{"id":385,"date":"2021-09-24T08:58:58","date_gmt":"2021-09-24T08:58:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2021-09-24T09:02:43","modified_gmt":"2021-09-24T09:02:43","slug":"flight-sim-setup-for-flight-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Flight sim setup for flight training"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My flight sim setup generated a bit of interest at the flight club. My setup has been very valuable to me and I feel like it helped a lot for my training so far. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Let me list below what I have as a setup:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Software <ul><li>X-Plane running on Ubuntu 20.04<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Computer<ul><li>DDR4 HyperX Predator 2x16GB 266<\/li><li>Transcend TS512GMTE220S internal solid state<\/li><li>VGA MSI GeForce RTX 2060 VENTUS XS<\/li><li>Intel Core i5 9600KF<\/li><li>&nbsp;Intel Asrock Z390 PRO4<\/li><li>2x 28 inches 4k displays. <\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Sim specific hardware<ul><li>Logitech flight yoke system +  throttle Quadrant<\/li><li>Logitech pro flight ruder<\/li><li>Logitech pro flight multi panel<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Home made:<ul><li><a href=\"https:\/\/github.com\/blauret\/pyG5\">Dual stacked Garmin G5<\/a> <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pros:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Enough for procedural training<\/li><li>Good training to practice basic instrument lessons<\/li><li>Visuals more than good enough to practice the visual navigation<\/li><li>Practice coordination for circuit and cross-wind landing<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Cons:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Does not help with trimming practice (No force feedback)<\/li><li>Aircraft model does not really match the aircraft behavior. Specifically on the cruiser the flap is unusually pitching down which is not correctly modeled in the sim<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Finally a picture:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?ssl=1\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"676\" height=\"362\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?resize=676%2C362&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?resize=1024%2C548&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?resize=300%2C161&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?resize=768%2C411&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?resize=600%2C321&amp;ssl=1 600w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?resize=945%2C506&amp;ssl=1 945w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?w=1211&amp;ssl=1 1211w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 676px) 100vw, 676px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My flight sim setup<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":381,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-flying"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.lauretland.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/08\/flightSimView.jpeg?fit=1211%2C648&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lauretland.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}