On 10/17/06 9:03 PM, in article ,
"Mxsmanic" wrote:

Kev writes:

It depends on what you're trying to understand. As much as I defend
your asking naive questions about flight, it's also perfectly clear to
everyone here that 30 minutes in a real airplane would utterly change
your (mis)conceptions of flying (that you've gained over hundreds of
sim hours).

I've been told this many times about many things over my lifetime, and
with only one or two exceptions, I've been told wrong. Perhaps such
experiences do dramatically change the viewpoints of many people, but
not me. My guess is that most people underestimate what I understand
in the absence of experiences similar to their own; they project.

Nearly everyone here has had experience with flight simulators (hundreds, if
not thousands of hours in my case) before they went on to climb into a real
cockpit.
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