I’m relatively new to VR (bought my first headset in December) and I‘ve only recently really got used to it. At first I only used it for GA because I wasn‘t happy with the performance and visuals in airliners. After a while I lost interest in flying GA aircraft (I’ve never really been into GA aircraft) and went back to flying airliners in pancake mode. Over the following two months I found myself flying less and less, partly because I didn‘t have much time and partly because it got a bit bored. Then one day, while I was taxiing to the runway at LECO in the A320, only moderately motivated, I decided to plug in my Reverb G2. Frame rates were still far from perfect but somehow on that flight it clicked. I think I just came to accept the fact that it won‘t run as smoothly as I had imagined and somehow I got used to it which allowed me to really appreciate the experience. Now I love flying the A320 in VR and I haven‘t flown in pancake mode for 3 weeks. At the moment I don‘t see myself going back anytime soon.
I don‘t usually do longer flights. If it’s a bit longer I switch to 2D as soon as I reach the cruise altitude, let the copilot handle the radio and do something else. I then go back shortly before TOD.
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