Judah wrote:
Nonono. You missed the point entirely.

Anyone can learn to fire a gun using "Call to Duty" if they have the proper
controller.

However, there are real-life sensations, such as intense fear for one's
life, bugs stinging your nose when you are hiding in the bushes [..]
These sensations cannot be accurately duplicated in a computer game.

But those sensations can't be accurately duplicated in any kind of
training, sim or not They used to fire live rounds over your head
in training, but you knew that was fake. Then they used those laser
harnesses, but that's even faker. The only way you got the real-life
sensation is when someone _really_ was trying to kill you.

Now, I'd have to agree that fear of death is one training aspect of
flying that is hard to duplicate in a sim. But perhaps if an
electrical shock was attached to the AOA value, you'd get better
training than even the death factor ;-) After all, fear alone doesn't
make you a better pilot. Learning to avoid deadly situations does.

Cheers, Kev