I've wanted to try this for a while: a split-screen video of a real and simulated flight. It worked out about as mediocre as expected
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This is a lap around the pattern with a slip to landing in a real Stearman, side-by-side with the GAS bird. I tried to sync the videos up so we cross the threshold in both around the same time; the other parts of the vids don't exactly line up. My head is on a swivel in the real plane, and the gopro was just strapped to my head, so that footage is bouncy, sorry. Also, in the sim, my zoom is at 80%, that accounts for the cockpit geometry differences you see.
I nailed 3-point in the real landing, the one in the sim is very smooth but a little mains-first, that's why you don't really see a touchdown. But close enough to be a fun comparison! (Yeah, my frame rates suck, sorry.)
https://youtu.be/QCySFUrm2jk
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