Mxsmanic wrote:

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Incidentally, if you don't like the mundane things, that's all the more reason
to fly a simulator, where you can skip all the boring stuff.


It seems to me, that by flying a simulator only, and swearing away REAL
flight and REAL life, you are missing out on all of REAL life.


In real life, you can't avoid the boring parts and just keep the interesting
parts. You blow several hours of your time in boring activity for a few
minutes in the air, and it costs a fortune. That's not very cost-effective
compared to simulation.

I'll take my "boring", expensive flights in my grumman cheetah over a
cheaper "more exciting" flight in an extra 300 or MU2 on MSFS ANY day...
I would bet most people feel the same. How can you compare real life
to MSFS? Boring parts of flying a REAL plane? Now I have heard everything.




Its like the saying that a picture is worth a thousand words,
similarly one real flight can be worth a thousand simulator flights.


Or it can be a waste of time.

Sitting in front of a computer for hours on end pretending to be flying
with no plans to ever fly a real plane sounds like a perfect definition
of a waste of time...



I have more time than money

Obviously you have a lot of time on your hands. I know lots of people
who have little money who fly. I think there is more to it than that.