John Heaton Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 (edited) 48 years ago - I got my PPL in a Cherokee 140 and finished my flying days with a few endorsements for various aircraft - Inc. Twin engine Seneca - Baron and the indomitable - Twin Comanchee - not a glass cockpit in site - steam all the way through. We flew with a raft of "Steam" gauges increasing in number as the aircraft got complicated - and we flew in all the conditions we meet today only now they are simulated - and we seek to find one of our old aircrafts to fly in the sim - as we did back then - so are they what we now call "Study Aircraft" and we fly them by instruments and Autopilots as we used to do Recently - developers have started to provide what some call study aircraft - viz. PDMG and Fenix - but they are are glass cockpits and tubes but now we are seeing more GA aircraft - replacing the default Asobo with their glass cockpits - Viz the C310 - C414 - HA 420 - JF's Arrows - and their Analog mods to other Asobo birds - which have the old bold pilots like me - reliving their old days. I never flew a King Air - (not to many around in the 70/80s) - but now I will get the opportunity with this beauty and relearn it all again all for the use of a modern invention - the Flight Sim and a plastic credit card You can find out the rest - yourselves - because we are not allowed to pass further information on developer's websites etc Edited September 1, 2022 by John Heaton 4 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
adambar Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Thanks John. Not a real pilot myself, but I always enjoyed the challenge of flying old school steam gauges. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stillwater Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Good to read about this progress, John. Enjoy! PS: I like the challenge of study level planes as well. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
paulb Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Nice post John 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wain71 Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 great post John, I prefer the older style in GA, I am not a fan of the modern glass cockpits for the smaller aircraft.....it must be great for someone that has flown in the RW to be able to do just the same procedures etc in the cockpit but within the sim... 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Heaton Posted September 1, 2022 Author Share Posted September 1, 2022 52 minutes ago, wain71 said: great post John, I prefer the older style in GA, I am not a fan of the modern glass cockpits for the smaller aircraft.....it must be great for someone that has flown in the RW to be able to do just the same procedures etc in the cockpit but within the sim... It would be - if the old brain worked as fast as it did 40 years ago when flying IFR - and trying to do 3 things at Once on a short final 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richard Lincoln Posted September 1, 2022 Share Posted September 1, 2022 Sudy Aircraft? Very much so 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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