Is there any training value in desktop flight sims?

[Beefitarian]

There's a correction thing for projecting onto curved screens just out I spotted looking at http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/ I don't know how much one is to buy or if it would be super difficult to make a curved screen. The next problem would be space.

[trampbike]

Forget about IFR training. Start to improve your dogfighting and bombing abilities on WW2 airplanes by playing IL-2. Get a stick, a throttle, rudder pedals and a Track IR (http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/).

NOW you'll have some fun

[172PIC]

There's a correction thing for projecting onto curved screens just out I spotted looking at http://www.mycockpit.org/forums/ I don't know how much one is to buy or if it would be super difficult to make a curved screen. The next problem would be space.

A lot of those setups cost as much as a C150 or more from what I've read and heard.

[Beefitarian]

Now we're getting somewhere, Is there any training value in flying one of those?

[Geko]

Forget about IFR training. Start to improve your dogfighting and bombing abilities on WW2 airplanes by playing IL-2. Get a stick, a throttle, rudder pedals and a Track IR (http://www.naturalpoint.com/trackir/).

NOW you'll have some fun

Or grab DCS BlackShark and a bottle of vodka.

[DHCdriver]

VFR-No. IFR-Yes, it's good for practising hold entries, holds and all the other goodies. Save yourself from being laughed at and don't ask your instructor if you can log your home sim time.

DHCdriver.