Why Use A Radio Controlled Airplane Simulator?

Why? Because it is one of the best advances ever in the hobby of radio controlled airplane flying! I put the RC Simulator right up there with the invention of proportional radio control.

When you are flying a real model, unless you are independently wealthy, you have to fly within your ability box all the time. It takes many, many hours of practice to build your box and then expand it into more complex areas of flying.

Any pushing of the limits of your box has to be done very very carefully or you quickly find yourself digging in your pocket for money for a new model.

The advent of computers and the RC flight simulator has changed all that radically. Using the simulator you can seriously push your limits. In fact you can blow them away completely!

You can set yourself up to learn one impossible thing after another and it costs you nothing. All you need is a bit of staying power and you can learn anything! You can crash 50 times in one evening and who cares? Your monitor doesn’t even fill up with all those smashed bits.

What I really like about the sim is that it is totally adjustable to suit exactly what you need at the time. Different model, no problem! Different weather, slow things down, speed things up, all is dead easy.

No, it isn’t exactly like flying a real radio controlled airplane, (Nothing can get even close to the potential level of terror using a real model!) but it is close enough to get that critical reflex training up to scratch. Thus, when the terror takes over the trained reflexes can save the day!

Ten minutes on the simulator is like a whole day at the field! In fact it is even better than that! In the ten minutes on the sim, you can do things that you wouldn’t dare to do at the field.

So, with a few weeks of dedicated practice pushing your envelope on the sim you can advance yourself the same amount it would take years to achieve in real life.

Make no mistake, a good simulator is one of the most important RC accessories that any pilot of any ability can own.

See what I have to say about RC Simulators on my pageLearning To Fly a Radio Controlled Airplane

All for now, and remember practice, practice, practice…