Timeline for 90 minute youth activity, what to do?
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| Nov 27, 2023 at 20:14 | comment | added | Spook | This was exactly my idea. Anyone can play MSFS, but barely anyone with commentary from the real pilot. There is an enormous amount of things you got used to, but a lot of non-aviators have no idea about. Like, conditions and consequences of icing. VFR into IMC. The ability to land propeller plane with no engine. The ability to land a helicopter with no engine. I am no pilot, but those were really interesting when I learned about them. I bet you can list a number of them. And then do a competition of a simple landing. Each attempt takes around 2-3 minutes, so a lot of people will be able totry | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 14:02 | comment | added | U. Windl | I had a similar idea, preferably if you own a recent X-Plane: Maybe make a competition who is fastest on a circle around the airport (i.e. takeoff, circle and land on the same runway again). You could try the Cessna, the F-4 (Phantom) and the F-35 just to demonstrate how different those are. Finally you could also use a helicopter. And for the winner discuss why he/she was the fastest. You could also do a boring lecture on real-life regulations ;-) | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 5:46 | comment | added | user71659 | @vsz Sure, but with the worst-case 12 participants x 5 minutes = 1 hour, less than their allotted time. And also watching and commentating on others playing video games is popular entertainment: see Twitch. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 5:19 | comment | added | vsz | Won't this have the issue of being able to accommodate only one of the children at a time, while the rest can only look? And if there are many of them, then they will individually have a short time at the controls. | |
| Nov 27, 2023 at 1:20 | comment | added | Someone | I run FlightGear on my laptop, which definitely not a gaming PC (8 GB RAM, Intel Core i3, integrated graphics), with no issues, although I only fly GA planes, not airliners, so airliners might need a more powerful computer. | |
| Nov 26, 2023 at 23:56 | history | answered | user71659 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |