Gig 601XL Builder writes:

Or maybe he practiced the flight in MSFS and felt he could do it but the
simulator didn't simulate something correctly, like fuel burn.

As far as I know, MSFS cannot simulate the type of intermittent fuel
system problem he had been having even before the accident flight.
His decision to ignore this problem was his big mistake.

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