Flight sim option
 

Flight sims are fun to fly, no insurance needed. Granted, it's not the same as real flying at all, but it does offer the technicalities of flying and helps keep your mind sharp. Could be an option?

I recently flew the Cirrus SF50 jet from SEA to PDF.
Getting on course...nice day, mount Rainier ahead.

The iPad connects to the sim and provides GPS tracking in Foreflight. The Garmin G1000 is flying the plane. Works very realistically.

Flight attendant brought popcorn and cokes to the flight deck while the captain is briefing the approach, not good cockpit discipline, but hey...


Did a missed approach at PDX, requested a flyby.

Tower, "negative ghost rider, the pattern is full". I hope they didn't spill their coffee.

Moderators feel free to delete this post, I fear I've gone off the rails a bit.

"Could be an option?"

Nope, not at all.

Dave

SIM time?
 

Hi Tony,
I'd appreciate knowing what Sim you have and what you're running it on. I see the Apple Logo, are you running on a MAC?

Re: "off topic?"...I don't think so for several reasons;
1 - certainly could be an option for someone no longer able to fly/get insurance or whatever. Matter of personal preference.
2 - Good info for those of use who haven't considered a sim in a while. Your scenery is gorgeous!
3- as you mentioned, it's good practice for procedures and "switchology"...although in that respect it may belong in another topic are. I haven't looked yet, maybe we have one already?

Best Regards from "down east",
Dave

Nice set up Tony. Please give us the low down on it. I?ve been thinking about a home sim for awhile now.

The computer you see there is my iMac desktop, 27-inch, Late 2013. So in terms of computer life times, it's getting old. I do everything on this, its my day-to-day computer. The sim is X-plane, ver 11. It runs very smooth on the Mac.
8 GB memory
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 775M 2 GB video

I fly the X-Plane with just a mouse, joystick, and keyboard. Seldom do I use the joystick, just TO and landing. Since you don't get the seat of the pants feedback with the sim I mostly fly it using the G1000 autopilot which is a lot of fun to learn and use. But I do, actually, prefer the Dynon AP that I have in my -12.

Can you get one of these as an F-16?