Judah writes:

But if you are driving somewhere you haven't been before, you might have a
map and use it to navigate to your destination, right?

Very rarely. I usually use a GPS. If I don't have that, I follow
signs. If I must resort to a map, I have to pull over and stop the
car.

Does this cause you to tumble down the mountainside?

No, because I'm not moving when I consult the map. Unfortunately,
stopping an aircraft in mid-flight is much more difficult.

There are many monocular cues to depth perception that are not effectively
simulated.

Which ones?

And yet somehow, miraculously, pilots do this on a regular basis, and even
before there was GPS! Perhaps we know something you don't.

If so, you don't seem to be willing or able to explain it, since
that's the whole purpose of this thread.

Visibility out the side windows in real life is pretty good. I haven't
played with MSFS since the 98 version, but back then the default
perspective out the window in a Cessna was SIGNIFICANTLY different and more
restrictive than in the real world. I had to make several adjustments to
the settings that control the angle of perspective, and I had to reduce the
size of the control panel to even come close.

Things have changed a lot since FS 98.

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