Recently, Tom Conner posted:

"Dave Stadt" wrote in message
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"Mxsmanic" wrote in message
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Neil Gould writes:

Intro flights are typically well below $100.

I've already logged nearly a hundred hours in my simulated
Baron, for far less money than that.

But you have not flown for even one minute. 30 minutes in the
air is worth hundreds of hours behind a game.


Not to encourage the village idiot, but you are completely wrong.

Tell that to the military which makes extensive use of simulators.
The Navy uses MSFS to train new pilots.

(rest snipped for brevity)

Sorry, but it's your usage of the example that is completely wrong. The
Navy is not using MSFS *in lieu* of flight training, the point under
discussion here. MSFS can be quite useful as an adjunct to flight
training, and none of us have disagreed with that. In such usage, you can
simply chuckle at those things that MSFS gets wrong and move on. Without
flight training, you wind up with the kinds of notions and questions that
have been posted here recently.

Neil