Cessna 172 Simulator - So Just How Realistic Can It Be As a Training Resource?



Posted: Sunday, May 02, 2010

by Jacques Pontier

Let's suppose you would like to make use of a Cessna 172 simulator in order to supplant actual flight training in the real plane. How effective could a simulator serve as a training resource?

Modern Cessna 172 simulator software programs are so sophisticated that you interact with it as though you are interacting with its real world counterpart.

As a matter of fact, for instrument rating flight students (who are taught to navigate airplanes only by reference to the instruments with no visual reference to the ground), there is very insignificant difference between a simulator session and an actual session "under the hood".

The sum total of all aircraft controls, aircraft aerodynamics, and control responsiveness, and the simulator plane's interaction with simulated weather conditions are an extension of real world physics, aerodynamics, and mechanics.

The masterpiece of software development involved in the development of Cessna 172 simulator computer software programs is continuously evolving and becoming more realistic and involving a broader range of real-life scenarios. You can virtually manipulate every aspect of an Cessna aircraft using a simulator. You can observe the actual effects of your control inputs and the resulting effects of weather on a Cessna aircraft.

This realism is so true to life that the transition from operating the simulator to piloting an actual aircraft is transparent. You would have no problem "readjusting" to the real world counterpart of the simulator aircraft.

It goes without saying that Cessna 172 simulator computer programs are as real as you can possibly achieve.

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