Mxsmanic wrote:
It is one way in which some simulations are different. But this
difference can be good rather than bad, if you are trying to learn
instrument flight.

Since you've never learned instrument flight (i.e. flown in real-world
IMC) how would you know? I would agree with you that it's easier on
the sim. It's still demonstrates a flaw in the simulation.

But it wasn't until I actually DID it, in a real
airplane, with real mass/inertia, real turbulence, etc, that I found
out it was nothing like my imagination or my experience in the sims.

We all have our personalities to deal with. But we don't all react in
the same ways.

Rather an obtuse statement. So? You don't know how you will react
until you've done it.

But that would not be like real life. If a pilot is unconsciously
moving the controls, he'll do that on the sim, too.

No he won't in the non full-motion sim, because he won't have that
"motion" that induces him to move the controls. As one example, the
feeling of falling backwards when leveling off from a climb. The sim
pilot is in steady one-G all the time.

I've been burned innumerable times throughout my life by posturing
airheads who claimed to be experts but weren't. I don't make that
mistake any more. Trust, but verify, as a politician once said. Or
better still, don't trust at all.

I'm fine with trust but verify, but don't use evidence of how the sim
works as evidence of how the real world works.

And while the whole "simming vs. reality" superiority argument is
subjective anyway, it is also simply silly. If you want to represent
yourself as an experienced pilot because you have thousands of hours on
simulated barons or boeing business jets, then great, have at it.

I don't think it's in the thousands, but I'm not sure.

It doesn't matter if its 1 or 1000.