PilotEdge - a glowing recommendation and a thank you!
Posted: Tue May 16, 2017 4:47 pm
It's amazing that adding human ATC to a sim can force you to plan better, fly better and to be more aware of what's around you but it does. I am learning so much, so quickly and having so much fun doing it. Combined with Ortho4XP tiles and X-Plane, this experience is the closest that I have come to my real world training.
PE adds so much workload to flying that I have gone back to the default C172 until I feel comfortable taking on more. It's no surprise that so many C172's are used for training.
Over the years, I've used most, if not all, modern ATC software packages and have even bought many Ivona voices to add depth but nothing comes close to the service provided by PE. You just can't beat human interaction.
Old habits die hard, so one of the first things I did when I had access to PE was to load up an FSEconomy flight in the Pipistrel Panthera and off I went.. into one of the busiest mix of airspaces in SoCal... Big mistake... I was 'lucky' enough to have Keith as controller and he ensured that I won't be making that mistake again. Thanks to the human ATC aspect, I realised, for perhaps the first time in years of simming, how arrogant and foolish I had been to think that I could just jump in my favourite plane and fly from A to B, pressing some buttons to respond to the ATC when necessary. All of a sudden, this wasn't a 'game' that I knew how to play any more..Flights that I wouldn't have thought twice about before are now out of the question, since I've realised how careless and dangerous I have been.
I am finally learning all about airspaces and how to navigate around and through them. I'm learning how to read and understand a VFR sectional chart. I'm learning, not guessing, about the correct use of ATC at non-towered and towered airports. I'm learning from the beginning, just like a real pilot does, and I'm not trying to skip the queue, not any more.
I had also ignored the PE CAT flights, thinking this was something for me to get into in a few months once I had learned the ropes. I was wrong, it's an essential beginners guide to ATC that has been carefully planned, slowly increasing in difficulty as you gain confidence. Thanks to Keith for pointing that out to me, it's helping me tremendously.
It looks like I was wrong about a lot of things and I'm very grateful for the team at PilotEdge for helping me to see the light. My two week trial ends this weekend and, when I'm back from a business trip next week, I'll definitely be signing up for the SoCal area to improve my skills..
I cannot recommend this service highly enough, if you're serious about your simming. My thanks to Keith and the team at PE.
N23TR
PE adds so much workload to flying that I have gone back to the default C172 until I feel comfortable taking on more. It's no surprise that so many C172's are used for training.
Over the years, I've used most, if not all, modern ATC software packages and have even bought many Ivona voices to add depth but nothing comes close to the service provided by PE. You just can't beat human interaction.
Old habits die hard, so one of the first things I did when I had access to PE was to load up an FSEconomy flight in the Pipistrel Panthera and off I went.. into one of the busiest mix of airspaces in SoCal... Big mistake... I was 'lucky' enough to have Keith as controller and he ensured that I won't be making that mistake again. Thanks to the human ATC aspect, I realised, for perhaps the first time in years of simming, how arrogant and foolish I had been to think that I could just jump in my favourite plane and fly from A to B, pressing some buttons to respond to the ATC when necessary. All of a sudden, this wasn't a 'game' that I knew how to play any more..Flights that I wouldn't have thought twice about before are now out of the question, since I've realised how careless and dangerous I have been.
I am finally learning all about airspaces and how to navigate around and through them. I'm learning how to read and understand a VFR sectional chart. I'm learning, not guessing, about the correct use of ATC at non-towered and towered airports. I'm learning from the beginning, just like a real pilot does, and I'm not trying to skip the queue, not any more.
I had also ignored the PE CAT flights, thinking this was something for me to get into in a few months once I had learned the ropes. I was wrong, it's an essential beginners guide to ATC that has been carefully planned, slowly increasing in difficulty as you gain confidence. Thanks to Keith for pointing that out to me, it's helping me tremendously.
It looks like I was wrong about a lot of things and I'm very grateful for the team at PilotEdge for helping me to see the light. My two week trial ends this weekend and, when I'm back from a business trip next week, I'll definitely be signing up for the SoCal area to improve my skills..
I cannot recommend this service highly enough, if you're serious about your simming. My thanks to Keith and the team at PE.
N23TR