| Using an instrument flight simulator is a whole lot less | | | | A flight simulator can help to close the gap during |
| expensive than aviating an actual aircraft. You don't | | | | those unexpected periods of indeterminate downtime |
| have to buy fuel. You aren't putting wear and tear on | | | | in between flights. |
| an actual airplane. You don't spend on aircraft rental | | | | It could also enable you to build on your skills, help you |
| fees. An instrument flight simulator can save thousands | | | | maintain proficiency, and could even help you to earn |
| towards your training. | | | | some more time in those areas in which you could see |
| An instrument flight simulator also saves you a lot of | | | | some improvement. |
| time, enabling you to achieve your instrument rating | | | | Flight simulators can help you become a better pilot. |
| much more quickly. It's much simpler to log time using a | | | | They can also help you to save money, as well as |
| simulator. Additionally you have no weather restrictions | | | | time, on extra training or unnecessarily having to repeat |
| to hinder or delay you from training, since you are not | | | | flying the same practice maneuvers over and over |
| "grounded" by inclimate weather . | | | | again. |
| Without a simulator, you are at the mercy of delays | | | | Fortunately, flight simulator technology is so advanced, |
| owing to to weather, availability of the aircraft, | | | | that piloting a simulator is just about every bit as |
| availability of the instructor, and your own monetary | | | | realistic as piloting the real thing. The instrument panel is |
| obligations which may hold you back from expediting | | | | identical. The control inputs are identical. The |
| your training. | | | | geographic "map" built into the simulator is based on |
| The software engineering requisite in the development | | | | real life cartographic data. The way the aircraft |
| of simulator software has matured over the years to | | | | behaves to various internal (weight and balance, fuel, |
| the point now where the line between the simulator | | | | aircraft performance) and external (weather |
| and the real aircraft have blurred. | | | | phenomena, air temperature) forces is designed to |
| Piloting the aircraft exclusively by reference to the | | | | simulate real life scenarios. |
| instruments is exactly the identical experience | | | | For a number of people, a flight simulator is nothing |
| between a simulator and the real thing. | | | | more than a really high-tech video game. And in many |
| With respect to all of the advances in software | | | | respects, it can be enjoyed as such. After all, you |
| technology that we have available at our disposal in | | | | never have to be fearful of crashing the airplane in a |
| this day and age, in the 21st century, one of the | | | | simulation! |
| greatest tools that every pilot, without regard to | | | | But for many others, a flight simulator is a heavy duty |
| whether he or she is a beginner pilot or an | | | | learning tool, and for numerous professional pilots, it is |
| experienced pilot, must have available to him or her, is | | | | fundamental foundation of one's aviation career. |
| a trustworthy flight simulator. | | | | |