DCS World: Can the Most Realistic Flight Simulator Help You Learn to Fly?

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Hey guys! Today we have a video I have been thinking about making for quite awhile now. As a content creator, mission designer and event host, I am asked by many community members two interesting questions quite often:
Can DCS help me learn to fly in real life? As well as I am currently learning to fly, should I stop playing DCS and play Microsoft Flight Simulator Instead?
The answer to these questions are not as straight forward as you might expect and today we are all about delving deep into why DCS World is a great learning tool for priming prospective flight students on the mental skills required to fly an aircraft in real life, and why it does a better job at this than Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020.
While I was working as a full time CFII, or Certified Flight Instructor Instrument, I had 4 students who were big PC Gamers, 2 were avid DCS World fans, and the other 2 were Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 players and the differences between them as well as in comparison to those who had never used home flight simulator products was extremely interesting and rather shocking to me.
Obviously pilots don't learn to fly in a F-14B Tomcat or F/A-18C Hornet or F-15E Strike Eagle, but we also talk about why that doesn't matter, and how flying your specific aircraft in a home flight sim can actually create negative training and expectation bias.
We will be breaking down why DCS World is a fantastic choice for prospective pilots into these chapters:
0:00:00 - Intro & Discussion Guidelines
0:06:00 - DCS & Situational Awareness
0:09:30 - DCS & Intuitive Flying Skills
0:14:06 - DCS & Instrument Scan
0:17:10 - DCS & Communication
0:20:14 - Wrap Up & Conclusion
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@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

While I know everyone will have some strong opinions about this topic, this is all based on my experience with teaching students how to fly in real life who both did and did not use flight simulation games or software. It is my opinion that DCS World for all the aforementioned reasons is the best choice!

@juodis-ie7vu 6 ай бұрын

Spudknocker great video and thanks for making great content

@juodis-ie7vu 6 ай бұрын

Spudnocker next year I am gonna start training for my glider pilot license

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

@@juodis-ie7vu nice dude!

@juodis-ie7vu 6 ай бұрын

@@Spudknocker thank you spud also I really wanna fly your Sunday missions in dcs but I am still banded from spud buds discord

@generalgrevous2458 6 ай бұрын

@@juodis-ie7vu Don't know wht you were banned for but I was banned from Enigma for someone else calling me "F-ing stupid'; my reply? a polite 'Please stop.' Having dyslexia is scks but i see no need for that behavior. I guess what it boils down to is tribalism protecting not very nice people.

@michaelmcconnell3777 6 ай бұрын

Dude, we traded comments on this topic about a year ago!! I use DCS for both recreation (late night brain erase) and helping me with SA and procedures/cockpit discipline (CRM for single pilot) when flying GA aircraft. Thanks for finally making this video!!!!! I agree with you 100%. And thanks for continuing to publish your videos on DCS.

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

No problem man! Fly safe!

@GenericDCS 6 ай бұрын

The answer is yes, and this is coming from a person who is currently in training. The flight models of the aircraft in DCS are so good that I learned a lot of lessons about trim management, spin recovery, and maneuvering behind the power curve. It definitely helps that I'm working a DA20, which uses a stick, but it did help back when I got my PPL in a 172. Heck my examiners for both my private checkride and my stage check yesterday complimented my aircraft control during landing, as I just know instinctively how to balance pitch and power from my time in the C-101 and now Mirage F1, which require very precise and quick movements to make a smooth landing. Another thing my examiners complimented me on was my Situational Awareness simply off of Tower/Approaches communications. Hell, my stage check yesterday brought me within 5000ft of a KC-135 out of Scott AFB, and I knew about him and his altitude from 7 miles away. This sortof gets into the geometry of flying as well, as I usually know where I'm going to be positioned by ATC, and can plan accordingly. So in my experience, DCS is a huge help for mastering the quirks of flying, maintaining SA, and maintaining professionalism. Or at least it has been for me.

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Oh ya man that’s for sure and that’s what this video is all about!

@franciscgedeon9237 5 ай бұрын

Dude, I only fly helicopters IRL, but the Mi8 flight model is sooo-so good (as in realistic), that after taking a break of 18 months in my real training and doing only DCS flying, I got right back into the cockpit with absolutely no skill fade. Even my instructor was like wtf. On a side note, I got to fly an EASA certified Mi8 sim for training military pilots, I felt at home. The only thing I will say is that for you to reap absolute benefits, you will need VR, as depth perception is everything when operating close to the ground. Doing emergency procedures in DCS is absolutely priceless, as you can program situations that no real world instructor would dare slap on his students, not to mention the possibility to alter atmospheric conditions at the touch of a button, crosswind landings, gusts, low ceilings, rain, icing conditions, inadvertent flight into IMC etc.

@murdoch9106 5 ай бұрын

This comment needs to be pinned, etteched in to a large pice of metal, put up as a plack, I dunno, something! I keep hearing the Mi8 is realistic and the people that really know seem to all agree the Mi8 is superb, and I have no helicopter experience IRL my self and Mi8 was my first module and I still think its the best out of all of them, Apache and Hind after that, all are pretty good and is constantly improving but yeah, I love the Mi8 to bits! One day I hope I get to go in a real helicopter!

@estoddard62 6 ай бұрын

SpudKnocker, you are one of my favorite veteran DCS content providers teaching me my next DCS Skills. I started DCS, because #1, I worked on F-15 A, B, C, and D's in the early 80's. I traveled the world with these birds and their pilots as a Comm, Nav, Penetration Systems Specialist. So I'm now 60ish... I want to keep my brain sharp and push back neural slowdowns that will naturally occur in all of us, by keeping my brain highly active. I'm using the same skills a Basketball Pro uses when he steps to the line to swish a free throw. Fine motor skills, quick decisions, muscle memory, and learning new things every single day that go on in a mission. I really respect the fact you are a real pilot and translate that experience back into your videos at the right time with the right amount. You hit the nail on the head with this video, on the categories. All of these categories I am designing missions that specifically work on these abilities, in short small iterations to teach my brain and muscles to master this subliminally and move on to putting bombs on targets. Such as Situational Awarness! Great videos, great content, thanks for what you do for the rest of us out here. You never knew DCS was also Neural Medication or Supplement that is keeping some of us young and alert! I wish you a fantastic Holiday Season. The Razbam F-15E rocks! Sometimes sending back to flashbacks of when I actually was popping panels, R&R boxes, and conducting successful Red Ball Maintence for pilots trying to hit the range in 15 minutes after the plane failed a BIT. Fly true, hit hard, return safe.

@GregsAirplanesandAutomobiles 6 ай бұрын

Spud is correct. I'm nearing the end of a long flying career. I have flown with a lot of people and anytime I'm flying with a DCS pilot they are always outstanding. That's just not true with MFS.

@mr.badnade3309 6 ай бұрын

I was playing DCS for about a year before I started flying. Flying rotary in DCS helped me understand controls and flying irl helped me avoid stupid mistakes in DCS, it was a nice trade off.

@ASW20kutscher 6 ай бұрын

The comparison of Class B airspaces with SAM-Sites got me. Awesome! 😂

@wingsofwar13 5 ай бұрын

I think it’s definitely helped me. Been flying DCS for a little over two years. Started my PPL in September Part 61. Soloed at over 20 hours and am prepping for the check ride now. My CFI, who wasn’t familiar with DCS, has complemented me multiple times regarding my airmanship and how fast I’m progressing versus his other students. I don’t have any experience with MSFS, but I can for sure say DCS isn’t hurting in anyway and only helping me.

@Alipro0077 6 ай бұрын

Bro you came at the perfect time. Im just getting back into flying, first solo achieved. And now im getting back into it to get my LAPL. I got MFS 2020, this video is a perfect argument to keep this 100GB game installed haha ty

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Nice dude!

@johnfredette7420 6 ай бұрын

Before I got into DCS I had finished my ground school, which was a nice advantage since I understood the physics before getting started. I haven't got my ppl yet because here in Brazil I have to wait until I'm 18.

@jeffreybruce400 6 ай бұрын

Very interesting and useful! You should do more of these real-life application videos. We recently took a family trip to Florida, and I was just talking to my wife today about the fact that my situational awareness of finding and knowing the general coordinates of the airport, taxiway, etc. Before DCS, I basically kind of had no idea where I was going, but I found myself: preparing, navigating, and estimating when descent would occur. We also fly Delta, so they give you a lot of information about the flight through the monitor on the back of the seat.

@mdu2112 5 ай бұрын

I have a fixed-wing PPL. Hundreds of Huey hours allowed me to hover and taxi a R-22 within the first 15 minutes IRL. 😎

@headupeyesforward 6 ай бұрын

I just had this conversation with a co-worker the other day. I am not a pilot irl, he asked if playing DCS would help me fly for real. I speculated that it would help with some things and not much with others. Nice to hear my thawts were at least close. Love the vids Spud, thanx for the content.

@Andromedon777 5 ай бұрын

MSFS taught me a lot of lessons on flying prop planes. DCS taught me a lot of lessons on flying jets. They're both amazing

@UkDave3856 6 ай бұрын

Being an extensive user of both DCS and MSFS, plus being a (lapsed) 500+ hour PPL pilot, I’d have to say that these two sims can help with learning to fly, but shouldn’t be your ab initio learning experience if you plan to learn to fly in real life. You can pick up the basic observation and situation awareness skills in flight sims, but if you’re serious about learning to fly irl, your initial training should be with a good instructor, so you don’t pick up a few hundred hours of bad habits that your instructor will then have to hammer out of you. The excellent thing about flight sims, especially MSFS, is that you can fly practice circuits in the same aircraft that you’re taking lessons in, in the traffic pattern of the same airfield where your school is, and you can then use the sim to lock in your most recent training. I wish MSFS and VR where at the place they are now back 25 years ago when I first took to the skies in a light aircraft

@murdoch9106 5 ай бұрын

I have nothing to add here, it all makes 110% sense to me, and about what I'd expect! Great video! o7 I just know what I fear most and would feel being the scariest part, its not the flying thats for sure, its communication and awareness / spotting. I hope some day I get to take PPL for helicopter but that is highly unlikely to ever happen... but one can dream.

@JETMATE1 4 ай бұрын

I discovered dcs 2 years ago and I never thought there was a game that would exactly meet my needs. Now I have a setup full of Winwing products and I LOVE IT!❤

@Spudknocker 4 ай бұрын

Awesome dude!

@JETMATE1 4 ай бұрын

@@Spudknocker Thanks man!🙏

@theaveragejoe9385 6 ай бұрын

As a real pilot who discovered my passion for flying in DCS, I think it absolutely helps with SA and Radios. Also, helps with Checklists and cockpit flows. My DPE and CFIs both commented on how “AHEAD” of the plane I was.

@greatnorth3105 6 ай бұрын

As someone who is looking to get a ppl to start out I would often ask myself the same question. I came to my own conclusion which is yes because like you said it builds the fundamental confidence and skills. I often find myself analyzing my mistakes after dcs flights to go back and correct them, and after watching this video and hearing of actual results I'm very happy I do that.

@FighterOperationsGroupFOG 6 ай бұрын

It absolutely helps! Ive been playing DCS and MSFS 2020 for a few years now. About 3 months ago i took my first private lesson, it was a breeze being able to understand the instruments, basic comms and controls. The instructor asked if i had flown before, i replied, "kinda".

@RG1001 5 ай бұрын

I went for a basic introductory 2 hour session as a birthday gift from my dad. Got into the plane and kept my mouth shut while listening to the instructor, I went into it assuming I didn't know a darned thing about anything. As we were flying around his instructions just abruptly stopped 15 minutes in and we started talking about fishing and hunting while he was telling me where to turn and what speed to maintain for the rest of the flight. After landing we got out and he asked if I had flown before and I told him about DCS. I exclusively fly the P-51 and the F-14.

@FighterOperationsGroupFOG 5 ай бұрын

@@RG1001 have you continued going to flight school?

@RG1001 5 ай бұрын

@@FighterOperationsGroupFOG Unfortunately not, After everything is said and done, with Aircraft Purchase, yearly certification, medical, maintenance, regulations, and storage it so far outside of my price range I have to live my dream via a PC game.

@FighterOperationsGroupFOG 5 ай бұрын

@@RG1001 same dude, same.

@Gideonblade 6 ай бұрын

Like your perspective. Good content.

@PhantomMark 5 ай бұрын

Been flying sims since the dawn of computers, literally, my first flight in a Cessna I took the controls from take off to finals, as instructed by the instructor, my only core mistakes were trying to "fly" the plane too much in heavy winds, instead of simply trimming it up and letting her fly herself :) I also have had my daughter in my setup here, she has flown many times in DCS full realism, landing etc loving it, she is also an Air Cadet and had her first flight this year, the instructor again let her fly the whole time as she took to it easily and instantly, these sims are absolutely worth "something". She is joining the RAF as an officer once she finishes sixth form - on ATC tho, even tho I told her to shoot for Pilot if that's what she really wants :)

@A_Muddy_Rambler 6 ай бұрын

I looked through your playlists and couldn't seem to find any video on communication (though i might have missed it). I personally would love to get a better grasp on how to talk correctly. All of your training and milsim videos have such clear and concise language that i would like to learn and bring to my group of friends that I fly with.

@louisaden172 6 ай бұрын

Hey, I recently did my first discovery flight working towards a potential career in aviation. (airline pilot, or maybe the military route) keep in mind im only 15 so im pretty young and new to the aviation world. However, I have invested hundreds maybe even thousands of hours into MSFS. I can't even fathom how much a sim helped me. Everything surprisingly came pretty naturally and the cfi was pretty impressed. Some things I would like to add or mabye just piggyback off of your video. Situational awareness is huge in my opinion. Taxiways were in my opinion the most overwhelming part of flying. MSFS really didnt help with that, but from watching your vids a little bit DCS probably does a better job. finally rudder and physics are also big. Getting used to the flow and energy of your aircraft is something microsoft could possibly work on because it is completely different irl. This video was quite helpful and really makes me want to try DCS.

@YT-mn4eq 6 ай бұрын

Watched this video while flying on MSFS, will be landing shorly to which to DCS. Great points

@Specter0420 6 ай бұрын

Instructor: So what kind of flight experience do you have? Me: I have 10 minutes at the controls of a Cessna 172 from an intro flight, a one hour lesson with the other instructor last week, and about 10,000 hours in various home simulators, mostly DCS\LOMAC\IL2\FSX. Instructor: No offence, but all that simulator experience, that's 0 flight experience. Me: Fair enough. [I performed the take off, flew tow formation, flew around, practiced stalls, shallow turns to headings, steep turns to headings, pattern, and my first landing]. Instructor: Wow, I can tell that simulator experience has REALLY paid off! It's like teaching you a new plane instead of teaching you how to fly. I amazed my instructors when I soloed in just under 4 hours of training. They say if you're good, a natural, you should be able to solo in 15-20 hours. Whenever I asked my instructors how I was doing compared to other students, they'd just laugh and say something like, "Well, we're not going to worry about that". I feel it is important to stress that quality controls and head tracking are force multipliers for training, but not required. However, skipping a control device, like rudder pedals, can cause negative muscle memory. I'm sure your school wouldn't be too happy with you taking a tour off the side of the runway, wrecking over some lights, AND twisting the grip off of their stick\yoke trying to correct like you're at home.

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

lol nice dude, it was kinda the same way instructing two dcs fans it was a night and day difference

@SurfVR 6 ай бұрын

Very well put. You quantify my own thoughts in a stellar way.

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Thanks man!

@giwrgoskarachalios5419 6 ай бұрын

Agree 100% I started playing dcs around 3 years ago and became a student pilot this summer (summer 2023) my instructor said I’m one of the best he’s seen yet (I have 53 hours so far on a 172)that’s either my own personal skill but it I were to guess it’s my experience and personal love for dcs and flights sims in general, I feel like it gave me a 6th sense of sorts on how to operate any aircraft to a moderate extent I have no virtual hours on a 172 but I felt comfortable flying it almost instantly when I got real world hours on it Also I find that real world flying hours even if they’re little right now have tremendously helped my flying skills especially formation and landing. I feel as if I’m a living example of this video🤣

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Awesome shark!

@BiscuitBoustifon 6 ай бұрын

I’ve observed that I feel more efficient, self-confident, and "ahead of the plane" in my small C150 when I’m also flying jet fighters virtually in DCS versus when I’m not.

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Interesting!

@BiscuitBoustifon 6 ай бұрын

@@Spudknocker Yes, I can feel the difference cause I’m not playing DCS on a regular basis. I’m playing intensely during 3/4 months to learn the plane and play campaigns. Then I’m switching to another videogame. I noticed my change of behavior during those phases. Guess I should pilot a bit more IRL or in-game to avoid this…

@specialneedsmolester1957 5 ай бұрын

I’ve always thought that at home sims were mostly good for practicing instrument flying so not really super helpful with ppl but I see it can help a bit. Also that did happen on my first solo with someone’s tire that got blown on the runway when I was in the pattern lol

@minghou5259 6 ай бұрын

Thanks for the comparison of two productions and I agree fully that DCS is the best flight sim as now in all aspects.

@MDoftheNorth 6 ай бұрын

I'd say 100%. I had the opportunity to fly in a full fidelity super hornet sim recently after about 500 DCS hours, and while there were certainly differences (having real switches was amazing, and the controls waaaaay stiffer than my winwing setup), I had no problem with any task, including carrier ops. We're so lucky to have the sims/games with the quality and fidelity of DCS and MSFS nowadays. (Edit: I'm a private pilot, so maybe that helped? Not sure)

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Haha it all helps man! The DCS and the PPL, also can you get me invited to the Super Bug sim?! Hahahaha

@henoch44 4 ай бұрын

So asking for low fly by the tower in C172 is not going to make the tower laugh...I knew it !!!

@Futeristic. 6 ай бұрын

DCS is just such an amazing game to get rid of that itch of doing military type aviation. Atleast in my own opinion lol.

@Callsigntitan 5 ай бұрын

Thanks, next year I will start my PPL

@bryanholland6987 5 ай бұрын

Back in 1999, a kid with zero flight training stole a Cessna from KPGD and flew his girlfriend around for a few hours and was promptly arrested when he returned after navigating away from the airport and back. Upon questioning, he revealed that he learned everything from Microsoft Flight Simulator 98. It's not a question of "if" because the answer is "YES".

@fargo007 6 ай бұрын

I've never flown a helicopter in real life other than being given the controls to do a couple turns. After a few years of DCS I got over a half hour of real military helicopter sim time at a Navy base. Not only was I able to fly, but I could do so with authority. Hot dogging, emergency procedures and even a successful autorotation to the ground. Quick stops, turn about the nose, all of it. The tech running the sim didn't believe I was not a pilot or hadn't flown before. There are more stories out there like my own.

@luisfernandopiedra5380 5 ай бұрын

I don't believe in recipees, but I think it is possible. Christen Eagle/Yak-52 for basic training, C-101/L-39 for intermidiate and the F-5 Tiger as T-38 Talon "Proxy" for advanced.

@stuntstrat76 6 ай бұрын

SPUD!!! Can’t wait to get back into a lesson! EDIT: KILLER VID!!!!

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Will get you in soon!

@stuntstrat76 6 ай бұрын

I’ll dm ya

@toddchisolm1271 6 ай бұрын

Don't forget cockpit management. DCS greatly helped me out with that.

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Good point

@GreenBlueWalkthrough 6 ай бұрын

However you are right all of these skills are important I just disagree that DCS is the only comercal sim that can teach you to fly IRL.

@l.a.french3063 5 ай бұрын

I have no experience in flight simulators. Does DCS come with initial training, or is it just play and try to learn? If is doesn't come with training within the program, are there any training courses out there?

@Boots3862 6 ай бұрын

Beautiful Great Lakes, and very solid aerobatic flying... I used to compete myself in an S2B, then SU29 and finally Yak55M. Do you compete?

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

I do! Mostly in the Great Lakes and S-2C!

@Boots3862 6 ай бұрын

@@Spudknocker Sweet. I love watching and judging the Lakes (never flew one myself). They are absolutely graceful and elegant and make Intermediate-level routines a thing of beauty. I haven't been to a contest in more than 10 years, but we used to have a fellow from SoCal show up in a Lakes (painted like yours) and just dominate Intermediate. Of course the Pitts is, well, a Pitts and there is nothing more iconic than that. But WAY too much work on the runway for me. I flew Advanced in the Russian planes, and after all that pushing I just wanted to get on the ground and not have to worry about it. But there is nothing quite like a Pitts in the air. Great teaching airplane, too, since it does really make you use your hands and feet (carefully). Thanks!

@GabryelHdPerformance 6 ай бұрын

Like a virtual pilot or simmer with a real background studies in aeronautics, for me, Dcs help me a lot to manage better my virtual flights and my aircraft in other simulators like Xplane or msfs2020. Most of people aren’t real pilots and in my opinion have virtual training sessions on Dcs improve and create new skills. Obviously study and follow real pilots on sim help a lot than spent hours on virtual flights without method. This is my little opinion like non real pilot.

@kentbrookman 5 ай бұрын

I’m a pilot also and like DCS very much. But I would say it very much depends on the aircraft. I don’t have every module but the F-14 is quite a cool stick & rudder plane, P-51 also. The F5 not so much… What do you think, which plane in DCS is most interesting for pilots?

@suecobandito8954 6 ай бұрын

Good video. Rather not have MSFS-prefer DCS. But wish DCS or Mods had a few more instrument flight options. If Anubis could configure their C-130 for VORTAC, ADF and ILS, it'd be much more immersive. (Biased KC-130 guy). VOR/ILS/ADF in the OV-10. And maybe the mustang TF could be resto-modded. Doesn't DCS have some GPS/Receivers for some of their mods? Also though, used to do approaches in Primary with the T-28B, called penetration approaches from high altitudes. Speedbrake out, mixture rich, prop full, nose over to 250IAS from 15K. Don't see that much anymore. I understand USAF uses DCS for A-10 training and I believe other nations use it as well.

@GenericDCS 6 ай бұрын

The NS430 off of the ED store is an option, but the best trainer jets are unfortunately paid modules.

@andrewareas-lloyd3507 6 ай бұрын

I don't know if anyone is still reading the comments on here, but I'm interested in becoming a pilot myself and I'm wondering how long it takes to earn a PPL? Thank you in advance

@EnigmaticDrifter8 6 ай бұрын

@mtguitar5150 6 ай бұрын

I mean I would most likely crash in most scenarios with only sim experience, but if a plane is without pilot I'd rather have someone with a few hundred hours sim experience than someone who doesn't know the difference between a flap and an aileron

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

I agree!

@GreenBlueWalkthrough 6 ай бұрын

5:55 Doesn't help you though with familiarity? Like if modeled well ofcorse.

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

You do raise a good point! However most GA aircraft have such a wide dispersion in their setup of avionics etc, and the limitations of MSFS modeling like a G1000 in depth can lead to some negative training if you aren't careful!

@GreenBlueWalkthrough 6 ай бұрын

@@SpudknockerI mean most IRL pilots I 've heard only care about where the knobs and switchs are not is the GPS 100% the same as their GPS... Like most PPLs swap those out like T-shirts.

@theaveragejoe9385 6 ай бұрын

MSFS can help with Cockpit familiarization, sure. If you fly the EXACT plan IRL. I have yet to see that IRL. I fly a Piper Archer III (Pilot P100i). It has Garmin G3X system in it. Which isn’t in MSFS at all. The only things that are the same are the position of the flap lever, throttle and mixture (yoke of course). That’s literally it.

@ivaniuk123 2 ай бұрын

Flying a cessna and a f15 are two entirely different things. This is like learning to drive while playing a formula 1 sim. MSFS would be a far better tool to learn how to fly a cessna than DCS.

@Spudknocker 2 ай бұрын

Sorry but no

@JSRJS 6 ай бұрын

I soloed in a C-172 when I was 17 years after 4 hours of instructor time, because I played the old MS Flight sims as a kjd religiously. I knew all the instruments and all the processes for landing/general flying and all it took was 4 hours of instructor time in a real C-172 to get to the point of soloing. I ended up getting my license in less than 1 year with exactly 40 hours on the dot. (40 hours is what is needed still I believe spread out over various types of flying with specific # of hours in each category) This was back in the mid-90's when flight sims looked like crap. I actually started playing the MS Flight sims in the 80's when they released version 1. So yeah, DCS is going to give you a lot of process/procedure and ability to multitask that will definitely carry over to the real thing that will shave a good amount of time off from your initial learning I assume. The real plane will be different and you will learn things they can't put in DCS but that's not a huge thing to get over.

@paulthurston2883 5 ай бұрын

4 hours to first solo ? You are lucky to be alive. I took 9 hours and had similar thoughts from old time, high hour pilots.

@GreenBlueWalkthrough 6 ай бұрын

So what about Ace combat and wrarthunder? As both focus on the combat aspects much more then the typical DCS flyer would and have every thing you said one whould need... Also what about X-plane and industrial sims? Like are they not as good as DCS? Also what about the things DCS does poorly like cross country, trans alatic/Trans pacfic/landmark/chart navigation? Yes DCS you could argue is better for landmarks as everythinjg looks the same so it's harder but is setting up a new IRL pilot for a hard time if they can't follow ground landmarks just coasts and mountin ranges... Pretty much you shouldn'rt fan boy about one sim wghile hating on all the rest very beneath you.

@generalgrevous2458 6 ай бұрын

wish i could learn to fly in real life but my Japanese sucks. 🗾

@AbyNeon 5 ай бұрын

Please take no offense and it is not personal by any means, but flying any jet war plane in any combat situation is kind of very easy and anyhow extremely slow paced compared to driving really hard with a good motorbike or a car with others or even ... on top of that the margin of error threshold is gargantuan compared to any other fast moving vehicle. While taking G's can be extremely tolling, the pace, ANY PACE is by no means close to eg riding a bike on a circuit where your top speed can be even just close to 200 knots. There is many 20 21 year old kids who have been in active Air combat already and any of what happens in DCS is not something that a 17 18 year old cannot handle in RL with a RL war plane. The only skill that matters and that not everyone can have or master to be a military jet pilot is to have a personality that is totally inclined to submit AND conform to its superior officers. Air warfare is very very slow paced even in a dogfight, so whatever megatasking is going on is not harder than any woman at the cashier of a supermarket while trying to pay the bill and holding her Iphone with the other hand and purse on her wrist and trying to pack stuff into plastic bags....trust Me put one of those in any airplane and they will megatask just as good as any jet pilot. Operating any airplane is very easy, the hard part is to have a seat on one.

@calinutza33 6 ай бұрын

No flying simulator will ever teach you how to fly for real , dude , get over it. ! You can only learn some aviation procedures with flying simulators ! I do fly MSFS in VR , but this will never make me a real pilot , so get tier ass out and go to a flying school if you wan to become a pilot. ! 😉

@soulofastro 5 ай бұрын

Did you watch the video before you commented?

@GaryIKILLYOU 6 ай бұрын

What's the intro song?

@Spudknocker 6 ай бұрын

Hey dude its just a track from a library of royalty free music haha

@GaryIKILLYOU 6 ай бұрын

@@Spudknocker reason I ask is I like to play my guitar over backing tracks, and the one you've got in the video is kickass, so if possible drop me a link or name so I can grab it and jam on it.