The effectiveness of a home flight simulator for pilot training depends heavily on selecting realistic and appropriate hardware, including a quality primary control (yoke or joystick), a dedicated ...

Some students arrive at their first flight lesson surprisingly comfortable in a cockpit. They understand the purpose of most instruments and generally know what most of the various knobs and switches ...

With the advent of X-Plane’s latest versions of flight simulation programs for desktop and mobile devices, and the hotly anticipated return (after 14 years’ absence) of Microsoft Flight Simulator, ...