Hi friends.. new to the forum but posting one Q for all pilots :-
Given ideal flight conditions (weather / load / fuel / etc), What is the % of accuracy for flight time from point A to point B, when compared with (pc based simulator) and REAL TIME flight?
Anyone who has done such comparisons, please post ur replies.
Thanks & Regds
Dandpatta
By: concordesst - 26th February 2006 at 12:23
If your messing about, then flight time can be silly, say if you do NCL – LHR direct GPS with no weather, obviously because you dont have winds, and you don’t have to hold at one of the many LHR holds (dont get me started on OCK. But if you do it properly then like Andrew says it can 100% accurate.
By: andrewm - 25th February 2006 at 17:39
It CAN be 100% accurate but you need to then know ATC restrictions or delays they faced that are not normal and what mach, altitude etc they used (alt is easily obtained but they may choose to go at mach .81 instead of .78 etc).
If you can get the variables needed your flight time should be the same as the real aircraft.
By: philgatwick05 - 22nd February 2006 at 17:24
The inflight time in my experience tends to be very simillar (obvioulsy depending on winds etc) but in FS we don’t have the hanging round at airports etc – nor Ryanair’s often quoted “ATC Delays over central Europe”.
By: EGPH - 22nd February 2006 at 09:52
Edinburgh- Reina sofia
Real about 4 hrs 15
Sim: 4 hrs and that is flying at abot 290 knots
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