Hi all, following the tradition of reporting on the progress of the respective pilot's license on flightgear-devel, today it's my turn as today I had my very first flight lesson for the Sport Pilot's License for very light aircraft (Ultraleicht, i.e. MTOW 472.5kg).
No, that doesn't mean I'm flying trikes. Essentially these planes are like your everyday light aircraft (Piper PA28, C172, whatever), just a lot lighter ;-) And as we were talking about the value of FlightGear, it has proven to have its very own value for me, even monetary speaking. Thanks to "training" on physically accurate FlightGear I was able to skip all that typical first-lesson stuff (flying curves, climb, descend, holding course and altitude, etc.) and go directly to traffic circuits and landing practice. Which essentially means that I'll possibly be able to actually do something sensible with the "expensive" instructor lessons and train for the really important stuff ;-) BTW: As FlightGear currently features neither an Ikarus C42 (yes, I know, the name is not well selected for a plane, but tell that to the people at Comco) nor an EuroFox - in fact I haven't found any very light aircraft in the hangar yet - I plan to model at least one of them as soon as I get a better feeling for them and as soon as I get better access to our club's planes for taking pictures for modelling. Don't pin me down on this, I said, I plan doing that. ;-) Cheers, Ralf _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list Flightgear-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/flightgear-devel
