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MSFS addons and programs for PPL training
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I want to use simulator for my PPL training (which I'm going to start soon). I bought Honeycomb Alpha yoke, Bravo throttle quadrant and rudder pedals.

Now I plan to buy MSFS deluxe premium - can I use them it multiple computers (not at the same time)?

Which addons should I buy that would be beneficial for my PPL training?

And which training programs/guides do you recommend (so I don't pick up any bad habits)?

Any other tips are welcome..

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As a US regional 121er who was a CFI/CFII and an avid simmer who used xplane, and msfs all throughout my time including ATP-CTP, it’s not going to matter what you buy. Buy whatever is cheap, save the money for your IR, if you don’t plan on getting an instrument rating then get alpha yoke and pedals. For PPL a flight sim won’t help basically at all, what you’ll learn in PPL training is almost entirely hands on/how do I fly a plane, sprinkled in with laws of the sky, and what not to do.

Now if you plan on going on and doing an IR, still won’t matter what you buy, but make sure you do get some kind of rudder pedals because plenty of students I had who were avid flight simmers (myself included) were in the habit of not using the rudder especially when intercepting/tracking LOC approaches, which caused them to chase the needle all over the place because all they would do is use aileron instead of rudder to make the small heading corrections.

What will probably help you in the future is to buy aircraft add ons that at least have similar cockpits to what your flying, for instance I flew PA28-161 for my IR training and the decided to buy the arrow from Justflight I think, since it had a similar avionics package, back in the xplane days. Even more so just recently I bought the FS Studios E175 which expontially helped me with my flows, calls, etc during my type rating, granted a lot of the systems lacked, the ability to see the cockpit and somewhat know what to expect helps a lot more than what yoke or rudder you have

Hope this helped :)

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