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DCS Legacy Hornet sim....

Treetop Flyer

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pilot
There's more to practice then just putting the time in. Without applying the sim to the syllabus you're just hoping you're doing the right thing. Some cases had guys who did this in primary and did well but I'd be curious if they did any better than a guy in the syllabus who was putting in the same amount of time using a different type of chair flying. In that case, they're just a guy who's trying really hard in front of a sim. Which is that any different then a guy who practices EPs in traffic or while bouncing a ball? I've also never heard much more about these guys continuing to use home flight sims in advanced, the RAG, or the fleet. If people could have proven that it makes a difference they'd be using it.
So what you’re saying is they need...

deliberate practice?
 

Hopeful Hoya

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pilot
Contributor
All of the VT squadrons have similar setups with Prepare3D (a Lockheed-licensed version of MSFS) running on high-end computer setups with VR googles. They're able to be linked so you and a buddy can go out and fly together.

My impression of them was that they'd be good for things like TACF (getting the sight picture/timing down) and ONAVs/Road Recce (route study using Google Earth type graphics). However, for anything stick and rudder related, the flight model sucked, the joystick (while albeit a very nice one) had poor feedback and was very different from the jet, and the multiplayer wasn't stable enough to do any close-in formation flying.

Bottom line, while I'm sure there are outlier cases, going out and spending $10k on a home simulator setup will probably not make you the next Robin Olds...
 

Hair Warrior

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Contributor
There's more to practice then just putting the time in. Without applying the sim to the syllabus you're just hoping you're doing the right thing. Some cases had guys who did this in primary and did well but I'd be curious if they did any better than a guy in the syllabus who was putting in the same amount of time using a different type of chair flying. In that case, they're just a guy who's trying really hard in front of a sim. Which is that any different then a guy who practices EPs in traffic or while bouncing a ball? I've also never heard much more about these guys continuing to use home flight sims in advanced, the RAG, or the fleet. If people could have proven that it makes a difference they'd be using it.
Yes, that was exactly my point.
 

taxi1

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pilot
Years ago my 13 year old son and I had some old Macs with some F-18 sim on them, that networked together. I’d be down in the basement and he’d be upstairs. I never bothered to learn anything other than how to shoot the gun, while he had the buttonology down. We’d be out looking for each other over the skies of Prona, and I’d hear him and his little sister (WSO) start cackling and I’d get a whole bunch of random warnings while he BVR’d me repeatedly.

If I got to the merge, he was toast, though.
 
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