by Goromo » Fri Dec 29, 2017 8:06 am
Hi,
Maybe I can help answer this, I did my ATPL/IR training about 35 years ago, I wish I'd had vr back then, it would have saved me hours. In short I would recommend it, and I think it will help tremendously.
However, speaking as a retired airline Captain, there are few things I would recommend you do, to add to the realism.
First get a descent yoke, I know they are expensive, but together with VR this helps with the immersion, and the last thing you want is a yoke that sticks around the neutral point and then is very light in feel. I have a goflight yoke and I have taken it apart and used a silicon grease on the moving parts, and I think its about as good as I can get without spending thousands. (its now very smooth throughout its entire travel in both axis, don't suppose its covered under the warranty now though!)
I am lucky, and have a home cockpit, and so my yoke and power levers are in a fixed position as they would be in a real aircraft. You certainly don't need a home cockpit, but try to place your yoke and power levers in a place where you feel them with your hands, where you see them in VR.
I don't use touch or leap motion.....(sorry flyinside, I know you have spent months developing support for this) I cannot imagine why you would want to hold a touch controller to control any part of the aircraft, be it yoke throttle or anything else, for me it then would become a game and not a training tool. The mouse is fine for adjusting altimeters, heading bugs etc. That's just my opinion and I expect others to disagree with me.
You can import charts in a virtual window, I use the one ones from aerosoft, and I can read them quite well, there are others, Navigraph etc, Aerosoft use LIDO charts and Navigraph use Jeppeson, so go for the one you would use in real life, I use aerosoft simply because I was used to LIDO in real life.
I have not tried FSX in VR so cant comment on it, but I have used P3D. I would say, (on my machine) that in its current form V3 is much better than V4 in VR. P3D Ver4 suffers from quite bad shimmer and the smoothness is not even close to V3.
hopefully others have had a better experience than I have, but I find V3 to be the best, its excellent.
I don't know what aircraft you are using for your training, but I can recommend the A2A stuff or if its a multi engine your after, the Carenado Navajo is quite good, very easy to read instruments.
That brings me to another point, don't believe all the rubbish you read on some forums about VR resolution being so bad. I have absolutely no problem with it at all. its perfectly OK once you get it setup properly.
So, would I recommend it for real world training.....YES, it will save you thousands of dollars, or pounds in my case, and its a lot of fun!
Good luck with your training, and if I can help with anymore questions please ask.
Cheers.
System: i7 7700k, @ 5.0ghz, 32gb RAM, GTX 1080, Samsung 960 EVO NVME 500 GB x2, 2TB HDD,Win 10 64 bit
GoFlight Yoke, Saitek TQ, MFG Rudder Pedals, several Goflight modules. Home Cockpit.
VR: Oculus Rift CV1..
SIM: P3D version 4.3