On Tue, 02 Jan 2007 22:09:58 +0100
Mxsmanic wrote:

There are no incorrect parts of the simulation. Prove me wrong.

Places like FlightSafety International spend a lot of money getting
certification on their full motion, level-D flight simulators. That
testing includes verifying the flight model, controls, sounds, motion
response, and visual representation is as close to the original as a
simulation can be. Even things like screen vibration from the sound
harmonics in the Osprey simulator have held up certification.

I seriously doubt Microsoft puts anywhere near the effort required to
represent true flight characteristics in their consumer products. If
the flight characteristics were correct in MSFS, then why doesn't
FlightSafety just run MSFS on the back-end and certify that way? I'm
certain it would cost less for them to leverage the consumer product
pricing than to write new software in-house.

Doug

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