Simulators

On Jun 5, 11:39*pm, "Morgans" wrote:
"Peter Dohm" wrote

Oh, Please!!

The only reason that anyone is dragging MSFS into this, or anything even
remotely related to aviation, is the existence (and persistence) of
another frequent contributor who asserts that MSFS is the same as
realtity--only better--which is about as stupid as saying that reality is
a crutch for people who can't handle drugs.

Exactly my point. *I was relatively sure that the simulator in question was
well above MSFS, but at the time I didn't know what the simulator type was
that had been used.
--
Jim in NC

There's another component to this sim question. I think pilots often
use them, including MSFS, for training purposes -- beyond the edge of
the envelop kinds of things, or as a way of gaining an initial
familiarization with an airplane's panel. My pilot friends and I have
coined a phrase when one of us updates our instrumentation -- "Panel
Envy" -- and it might actually be good to test fly a new gadget in a
sim if you can't get behind a real one in an airplane.

Our resident most frequent poster has written about sitting at his
desk as PIC watching an entire flight simulated under automatic/
autopilot control, for God's sake. It can't be true, but I seem to
remember him writing about enduring gate holds or traffic delays too.
I'd find simming an entire flight mind numbing, but he in a recent
thread talked about doing it from before start check list and "Clear"
to tie down. That experience makes him, he has claimed, something of
an expert. I am reminded of the definition of 'expert', one has to
take the word apart to understand it. An Ex is a has been, and a spurt
is a drip under pressure. He's not an Ex, he's a 'never was'. Worse
than that, the attitude most of us perceive turned many against sims
in general, as evidenced in other threads here.

If you've read other of my comments, this may make you smile. It's VFR
here, but I think we'll go flying anyway.