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Dave Doe writes:

No, you *know* you're flying a simulation, and the brain *knows* that,
and you *know* you can't get into *real* trouble.

Actually, intelligent people are able to get past this. Anyone who is
completely unable to forget that he is engaging in a simulation will have a
hard time getting any utility out of simulation at all. Fortunately, like
Method actors, smart simulator users do not constantly tell themselves that
it's a simulation but instead try to pretend that it's real.

Pretend, being the operative word. Only kids have plausable dualistic
minds. Perhaps that's you. The rest of us have grown up.


When they do
this successfully the usefulness of the simulation is hugely enhanced.

Enhanced, being the operative word there.

It's not reality, and you *cannot* escape that. To do so - and you
should be put in a mental asylum - no longer being able to distinguish
between reality and fantasy is considered by good psychologists to
dangerous.

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Additionally, like most sim folk, you've probably done things very
differently from the real world (eg. you've mentioned you've flown
heavies). Well in real life, you start off doing a PPL. You don't
progress until you've done that.

That is irrelevant for purposes of ATC. However, as it happens, I flew small
aircraft in the sim first.

It most certainly is not!

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You fly a sim and yet are unable to "put yourself in the seat" - that's
counter to your argument in the first place. (It's a sim, and you're
telling me you can't simulate it - pathetic really).

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Duncan