Andreas Tschoeke writes:

A friend of mine, who is a RL pilot, too, goes the other way; he
does things in the sim he wouldn´t think of doing in RL, which is
not the way I use MSFS. Therefore, I only fly with him in RL, not in the
sim, because only RL comes close to my experience in the sim.

What sorts of things does he do in the sim?

I know that sims come in handy for trying all the things that would be too
dangerous or expensive in real life.

I took off from the tiny airport in Sedona a few days ago in a lightly loaded
747-400, just to see if it was possible (it is). That experiment would be
completely out of the question in real life, of course, even if you could tow
a 747-400 up onto the mesa to reach the airport. Granted, one could calculate
whether or not this would be possible by looking at the numbers, but it was
easier to just try it in a sim.

FWIW, I loaded 40,000 lbs of fuel and a few dozen of my closest friends, stood
on the brakes until I had take-off thrust, and took off without any
difficulty. With a full load the story would have been different.

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