Steve Foley writes:

"The instructor noted that the accident pilot had been practicing the flight
route to New Orleans using a Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000 program, on his
personal computer. "

I guess he didn't practice enough. Or, more specifically, he didn't
practice that specific approach in that particular whether with that
particular malfunction. Perhaps practicing that exact scenario might
have helped him (I'm pretty sure it would have). However, the real
problem was that he allowed himself to get into that situation in the
first place. In the final analysis, MSFS made no difference at all.

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