Mxsmanic wrote:
Tim writes:


I have played MS flight sim. It is fun to do instrument approaches with
it - it is somewhat helpful in keeping me practiced at the procedures.


Which aircraft do you simulate, what type of flight controls do you have, and
which add-ons do you have installed?


I own a grumman AA5A. It has a normal dual yoke control. It came with
the plane. I have modified the plane with a LoPresti cowl/nosebowl, and
I just had new leather seats installed. It has a JPI EDM 700 fuel flow
meter. I also have a garmin 295 hand held gps mounted to the plane.

For real flight training I get instruction in a Frasca training device.
I can log that time as simulated instrument time and count it toward
ratings or currency. I can't do the same for my games.

As an aside, I recently built a cockpit simulator for my 3 year old
nephew out of a carboard box. It has a REAL compass (not like MS flight
sim - which is fake) and it had a real AOPA sticker in it. I even put
on a propeller. As far as the FAA is concerned I can log time in that
as much/as well as I can log MS flight sim game time.

We can go round and round. You are engaging yourself in a game. You
try to convince people it is as good or better than the real thing. You
are never going to be able to convince anyone of that. You are
delusional.