I could take an f4u4 up and land it successfully I think pretty easy. It would consist of my knowing the cock-pit little more and feeling it. I already use peddals and a joystick. I think flight training in actual school mostly teaches you the rules and also some of the physics involved its self
I was kind of thinking the same thing, but there's some things the game doesn't require, trim is one of them. I don't know if I saw it somewhere, or heard it here, but some old P51 pilot was talking about setting the trim on his plane. He said there were some wheels you had to adjust to set the trim. I got the impression trim was adjusted regularly.
I don't know if they had a default combat trim back then, like they do in this game, but I tried to manually set my trim here a few years ago and nearly crashed the plane. Didn't know the keyboard commands to return to combat trim. I'll never try that again.
There's probably some unpleasant surprises awaiting those of us that would like to try the real thing, but we do learn some stuff here.
Decades ago, I took a meteorology class at a local junior college. The guy that taught that class was also a flight instructor and they had one of those old flight simulators in a nearby room. He let me try it once.
It was a simple thing. A room with black and white landscape figures on all four walls. The simulator sat in the middle and had rudimentary controls like steering wheel, pedals, etc. As you turned the wheel, the plane would pivot, simulating your flight.
I lasted maybe thirty seconds, with the stall buzzer starting soon after I "took off". I crashed.
I think I might have avoided that now, having some experience with AH. Thinking back, I probably took off at too steep and angle and was definitely turning too much. Lost too much E. Not sure if I was using the pedals right, if at all. I'd like to try that old style simulator again to see how I'd do now. Bet I'd last a bit longer and wouldn't be too surprised if I could land it after a few tries.
