Can I Fly a REAL Airplane? | IslandSimPilot Goes Flying | Microsoft Flight Simulator vs. Real Flying

Great job sir! Always enjoy your content. Love to see real flying with your excellent narration as well!

Really interesting, good to watch, cheers

Great narration. You explained your actions very well. Great job!

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Well done! Thanks for the video. Next time turn on name tags! 😅

Very well done! I’ve been addicted to the Justflight version for the last week in 2020. Can’t put it away for some reason it just feels so real and I’ve spent a good bit of time in the real thing over the years. Honestly, it is a bit better in 2024, but I refuse to deal with the threshold and landing stutters, they ruin the entire experience for me. Look forward to more of these!

IMHO all prop aircraft lack the need for right rudder in the sim

What a great content, captain! It's content like this that makes the difference. Really nice

This was coool Thank You

Wow, new frame gen mod with DLSS 4 looks insane 😅

The amount of work done to keep it straight and level in the air is always interesting to me. Once got to put my hands on the controls of a Cessna in mid-air as a kid, never forgot that feeling. Nice group of landings, and interesting slowing mid-air technique with one notch of flaps and reduced power. The narration over top of the video is the same quality of your sim videos, so feels natural, works quite well.

Great video thank you. 🙏

Beautiful VFR, Thank you for flying!

Awesome video Cap

nice landings , great job and nice video

Sim running buttery smooth now

Really enjoyed the video. It’s been a long long time since I did any pattern work here in the UK. It was the mid to late 1980’s i think. Didn’t quite get to get my license but did plenty of solo pattern work in a Cessna 152.

Thank you.
Regards.

Managed to catch you on FR24! Good stuff. Love the FSRealistic camera shake mod 😂

Man, those graphics are amazing! Hehehe....
Seriously though, cool to see ya in the real thing.

i would add that since MSFS2020, we can now fly appropriate VFR practice in the sim. Add head tracking or VR and it's very complimentary to real world flying. Best example i have is flying in the Rocky Mtn's near Denver. There are many canyons with lakes you can mistake for other lakes and get yourself into a slot canyon with 14,000ft peaks in front of you. Many pilots have lost their lives flying unprepared and unfamiliar with the terrain and navigation through this terrain. It's great to learn and make mistakes in the sim and everything is then familiar when you tackle it in the actual airplane. Now we just need to get you flying experimental ;).

lovely plane

Is that dlss or dlaa?

It was great to tag along with you on a (your) real flight! I think showing your own flying is a good addition to your channel. I like the expression "playing the trombone", lol. What were you doing? Raising and lowering the elevator?

Why is your iPad attached upside down on the yoke?

Great flight. You show us being aware at all times is so important. Following all the steps, your a great teacher, really appreciate it.

Please do more live flying. It's great to follow a simmer that actually flies. It's a more believable experience.

B-52's, actually, along with F-106's and T-33's. (I was there, 1982-87)
I fly in and out of there in the Sims all the time. Your video is the first I've seen of the real thing in probably 15 years. Sure has changed...
Nice patterns, BTW.

I sure enjoyed your flight and narration. You even taught me to lean mixture during taxi. I love learning. Have a good day!

Hope I can do my first flight irl soon too

Like the new content and liked seeing you perform the same in the sim as you do in the real airplane.

if you’re the only one in the plane and it’s legal, yes, you can clearly fly a plane!

Thank you for these interesting insights. Especially your opinion about real vs. sim - does it help to train really the flying. Had several discussions about this and as I am a passionate VR-flyer (in helicopters) I always state that the latest flight sims (may it be X-Plane or MSFS) are so good that you can simulate reality very good as long as you also have the right hardware for it (VR, rig, maybe a motion platform). This is also what a real life helicopter pilot confirmed to me.

VR in MSFS hits most of the muscle memory from IRL flying for me. I once tried pressing on into IMC in the sim to see how I would handle it, and spent about 20 mins seriously lost in the murk and couldn't find any beacons. After a while I got so stressed I just wanted to take my headset off, but forced myself to keep going until I luckily got a VOR.

Is that MSFS 2260 ?

Thanks ,very interesting.

good job. I rely heavily on MSFS for staying current with procedures. People bawk at it, but FS really helps.

Here is what I can tell you. I hadn’t flown in seven years IRL, but religiously on the sim. I have everything for my sim(yoke, pedals, throttle quads, etc). I went out to the airport last summer to get current again. The CFO asked me how long it had been since I had flown and I told him, seven years. He told me it could take several lessons because I probably had forgotten so many things. What I didn’t share with him was that in those seven years, I have never missed a single week of flying on the sim, unless I’ve been on vacation. It took TWO separate lessons, yes only two. One day of pattern work and on the second occasion we went out to the practice area to do stalls, slow flight, steep turns, and turns about a point. I had practiced everything on the sim and I always make a habit of flying by the numbers when I’m on the sim. My CFO was shocked that after such a long time outside of the cockpit that I had retained so much muscle memory, for lack of expression. My advice for anyone is to be intentional while in the sim and it will translate over to the cockpit IRL. If you’re sloppy in the sim, you’re going to be sloppy in the cockpit. If you fly by the numbers in the sim, you will fly by the numbers in the cockpit. The airspeed indicator and vertical speed indicator are always my two best friends. That vertical speed indicator tells you instantly what will follow later. An increase in pitch means an increase in altitude and a decrease in airspeed and vice versa. If the vsi is hardly moving in one way or the other, then you’re pretty much maintaining your altitude and your airspeed. Of course do full instrument scans of everything else. I really enjoyed you sharing this RL video because it’s nice to know, flightsimming does indeed work😊

Exactly the type of graphics everyone is chasing in the sim lol.

Nice… I feel compelled to call out the “no carb heat” though. You just have to experience carb icing once to never forget that again.

Makes me laugh how Americans took the English word "aeroplane" and then just decided to make up their own strange version "airplane".

You can learn and practice a lot of flying skills on a modern flight sim. Having said that, they have a lot of limitations. I don't think you can even get a third party flight model for the plane I own. And flying a Cessna in MSFS doesn't closely replicate the performance envelope. So I am mostly just practicing things like procedures I rarely ever use and flying patterns that are much higher, wider and with much longer runways than I usually fly from. They are both high wing aircraft and that's about the only thing they have in common. A C172 is far easier to fly. The Cessna is double the weight, has half the climb rate and a much more sedate roll rate. The approach speeds are about the same - 65kt. Also, the stall speed of a C172 with full flaps is similar to the stall speed of my plane, which has no flaps.
So it isn't completely pointless doing pattern work with the C172 in MSFS. I generally find it harder to operate from larger runways because you pretty much have to firewall it in my plane just to not get run over in the pattern. A C172 will typically fly most of the pattern at a speed substantially higher than the 100mph that is my Vne (with sailcloth bags) and my Va. But it will fly a pattern at 100mph just fine so no issues there. I would say both planes also have a similar glidepath, given a similar speed (they also have identical ideal glide speed).

If you ever fly out to long island KJPX, formerly KHTO, Easthampton, I'd invite you over to fly my 6DOF, VR rig. Since you know the sim well and the real thing, it'd be interesting to hear your thoughts on the motion telemetry.

Good stuff Mike, nice to see you doing the real thing! If all goes to plan ill be getting my first taste of GA flying this coming Friday in a P28 Warrior. Im pretty excited.

If you fly on the sim properly there’s no reason you couldn’t in real life. Unless you’re an anxious mess. I think real life is far easier when it comes to the actual controlling of the aircraft and 100x more fun.

Follow you for the sim and your tips but I’m doing my PPL too so really appreciate your real flying tips too. Great work overall, many thanks.

Back in the day I remember one of my flight instructors warning me that landing at super long and wide runways when you are used to short, narrow ones (where I did most of my training) can give you a false sense of perspective on approach. There have been times when pilots have come in on approach and misjudged their flare height.

It can be a bit disconcerting going into a large international airport in a single engine piston while being chased by incoming airliners. I was also amazed we were even allowed to be sequenced with regular airline traffic, much less being allowed to land at those airports. I miss those days.

flight simulation has been instrumental on keeping me up to scratch, i too learn to fly on and off in a piper warrior, and often go years without flying, but as soon as i get back in the cockpit it's like i never left and my instructors are always amazing how i don't skill fade