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Re:Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pil... by bentcorner on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @02:24PM (#31343868)
I've played a bit of the new MSFS and flying the big jet (737?) is a completely different beast than flying the Cessna. There's so much automation that if you don't know what you're doing you can't even descend to land the plane (because it thinks you want to cruise and will fight you all the way down).
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Re:Passenger with “no idea how to fly” lands plane after pil... by DocTomoe on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @03:26PM (#31344605)
On the other hand, if you know what you're doing - and that is surprisingly little to know, it is a lot easier to land a 737 in MSFS2020 than a Cessna. ILS almost feels like cheating.

(But then, I'm a self-designated FlightSim enthusiast with several thousand hours of documented simulated flight time over the last 20 years, so ...)

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