A jolly day at the office

[Octal450]

As do I.
It makes it much more fun.

[SHM]

When you fly IFR especially on large airliners, you need to follow the green path (airbus guy), the waypoints cannot function as a VOR/NDB.

When I feel like flying using VOR/NDB I usually fly my trusty DHC6/C172.

[IAHM-COL]

It is not that i hate glass. In fact i think the layout of the PFD is very smartly done. Everything you need on one horizontal line. Instrument scan is probably faster than on steam gauges.

But what i hate is following magenta lines. It beats every self initiative out of a man. Myself i navigate on VOR/NDB.

Kind regards, Vincent

+1
(or like button if I may)

[Octal450]

SHM you don't "need" to, but on VATSIM, it's probably a good idea so you no piss off the controllers.

[SHM]

I'm not talking about VATSIM, but real life. When you file an IFR flight plan you're bound to follow the filled flight plan.

[KL-666]

That is exactly why sim flying is a lot more fun than real life flying

I do enjoy using the approach plates (paper/pdf) while landing at airports surrounded by high mountains. But when not forced by mountains, i'd rather fly straight at my goal. Doing things just for the sake of it seems a bit artificial to me in what is after all still a game.

Btw, this is not a critic on what others enjoy doing in this sim. Just saying what i enjoy.

Kind regards, Vincent

[jwocky]

Shhh, and here I am thinking to rip out the whole 787 style stuff from my flying workshop and get me some good old steam gauges. I mean, honestly, with a magnetic compass I can be fairly sure, it points approximately north. Not perfect but at least about. With a computer, I can be sure, it knows where north is if it gets anout satellites from the GPS, if all settings are correct, if there is no bug in the software ... and then, if I can be relatively sure, the computer knows, how can I be sure the computer really tells me what he knows?
You may laugh, but in five years time, we have to expand all the failure systems by a point called "Hacked Flight Computers" and depending who hacked you, you will be flown into the next high rise or just get a joy ride around the next amusement park. And then we old suckers will look into a map, find us an airport, go manual and fly there by the magnet compass from the cereal pack if needed.

[KL-666]

Aha, Americans buy cereal for the little presents in them. Do you get to see which one you will get on the print? Or are the compasses built in the pack, so you always store them inline with the earth magnetic field, to better preserve the healthy parts in them?

Kind regards, Vincent

[jwocky]

Have you ever eaten the cheaper brands of cereals here? The little gimmicks are the only reason to buy the stuff!

[LesterBoffo]

The fact of the matter is you used to get better toys in the cereal back in the 1960's and early 70's before the product safety commission people started worrying about 2 year-olds opening the cereal box to start gnawing, (and possibly choking..) on a polyfilm bag sealed trinket, surrounded by a good pound of nearly pure artificial color and flavor, thinned with some wheat and corn starch and encased in sugar glazing. If I was two years old and succeeded in opening a box of Quisp, I know what I'd start in on first.