1. Sim vs. Aircraft — What’s Different & Why It Matters

DRAFT lesson page — content pending POH/SOP verification and video production.

Learning Objectives

  • Anticipate handling, sensory and systems differences from the sim.
  • Trust instruments and numbers over misleading sensations.
  • Recognize the traps vestibular cues create.

In This Lesson

  • Control feel, inertia and energy vs. the sim
  • Sight picture and the real horizon
  • Real autothrottle and thrust response

Video

Video coming soon.

Knowledge Check

A short knowledge check follows this lesson (at least 80% to pass).