Recently, Mxsmanic posted:

Neil Gould writes:

You simply *refuse* to "see any disagreement between MSFS and real
life", and you do so because you have zero real-life experience
flying planes.

I don't refuse to see it; I simply have not yet been shown the
disagreement, despite repeated requests for the evidence.

If your usenet feed includes all messages in this ng, then you most
certainly have been "shown the disagreement".

What exactly does MSFS do that disagrees with real life, and how can
you know how either environment will handle single-engine taxis or
take-offs if you have experience with neither of them?

The fact is that those who *do* have experience with *both* of them have
told you repeatedly that the results are not the same.

Those of us who have MSFS *and* real-life experience flying planes
do see "disagreements", some of which have been posted in this and
other threads. Frankly, I don't care in the least *why* MSFS gets
some things wrong; it's only a game and I treat it as such.

Every simulator gets some things wrong. But not knowing exactly what
they are is a lot worse than knowing the discrepancies in detail.

The performace of the MSFS game is completely irrelevant to those of us
whose main interest is flying real planes. It is only "a lot worse" to you
and other gamers.

As far as taking off with one engine in a Baron goes, what I don't
get is why you think that someone who is rated in flying those
planes would know less about its capabilities than you do?

That's easy: No matter what he is rated in, I doubt that it includes
taking off from a dead stop with one engine. There is no reason for
anyone to ever do that in real life, so nobody practices it.

Nobody in their right mind practices things that are likely to damage the
airplane and possibly kill them. As Sylvain pointed out, if you can't
perform your stunt on a field large enough to accommodate B-52s, then
there is no reason to think that it can be done at all. The fact that one
can perform this stunt at a typical virtual airport with MSFS is
sufficient proof that it gets some pretty important things wrong. That
isn't news to those of us that fly real planes and have MSFS; it's only
news to you.

Neil