instrument training cockpit

Question

Hello,

I am looking for an instrument training cockpit with large easy to read instruments. I don't need any extra fluff visuals.
It seems that all the cockpits that came with my with X-plane 10 are not useful for instrument flight training because of small flight instruments.
Can you recommend an aircraft on your website with large easy to read Analog instruments and ADI/HSI ?     Thanks for your help

Answer 1

try a 2d cockpit you can design one in plane maker and put whatever you want on it and nothing you dont

Comments

Thanks for the suggestion, but using Plane Maker is beyond my computer skill set.

Answer 2

Hi Mark,

I am not with Laminar Research; just a flight simmer.

Have a look at a product called Air Manager which can be found at https://www.siminnovations.com/  

Also have a look at Youtube videos produced by Russ Barlow.  Russ is also involved with Simminnovations  as part of their development work.  The videos from Russ can be found at https://www.youtube.com/user/srbarlow/videos  Some of the recent work Russ has been involved with is becomming more specialised.  If you have a look at his videos produced about 12 months ago this will initiate you into Air Manager. 

Alternatively have a look at Air Manager videos from Michael Brown found at https://www.youtube.com/user/col2mab/videos  You will need to scroll back through his videos as well.  Some interesting "stuff" as well.. Laminar Research recommends Michael's company as the supplier of purpose built PCs for X-PLane within the USA.

Hope this helps

Glenn

Comments

Glenn, thanks for the information.
This just seems too involved and I use only one screen.
Also this costs more than my copy of X-Plane.
Think I will just use X-plane's zoom function and deal with it.   Thanks again

Answer 3

I used X-plane 10 and 9  for my real life instrument rating training .

Not sure what you mean by too small . The instruments are/were perfectly visible . They are/were accurate allowing for sometimes less than completely accurate flight physics.

I sometimes would find shooting an ILS in otherwise CAVOK conditions ,the needles rate of change a little too fast compared to a real aeroplane .

If you mean by cockpit the whole physical replica of a cockpit then  x-plane is used for this purpose too.

If you just want a system that is  dedicated only to IFR training then flyelite may be what you are after.  The eye candy in flyelite is spare as far as outside visuals are concerned but the panel representations on screen are excellent.

Comments

Thanks, I will check on flyelite