Getting confused with ATC order...Violation?
Dave Doe writes:
Pretend, being the operative word.
Pretending is extremely important to using simulators successfully. If you
cannot pretend--if you cannot suspend disbelief--you cannot really profit from
the simulator. Conversely, if you can do these things, using a simulator can
be extremely useful experience.
Only kids have plausable dualistic minds. Perhaps that's you. The rest
of us have grown up.
It's a function of intelligence more than age. The ability to adopt a
different viewpoint and voluntarily and selectively disregard aspects of
reality or fantasy at will is very closely correlated with intelligence, as it
requires considerable cognitive capacity. Animals have less intelligence and
virtually no imaginations, for example, and thus could never make much use of
simulators.
Enhanced, being the operative word there.
Yes.
It's not reality, and you *cannot* escape that.
Well, yes, you can. That's the whole idea. I've already explained the
principle above.
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.
The inability to distinguish between reality and fantasy has nothing to do
with the ability to adopt either frame of reference.
Things like literary fiction and cinema depend on this ability, and it is
widely held and uncorrelated with mental illness. It is, in fact, a function
of intelligence, not insanity, as I've explained.
It most certainly is not!
Because you say so? ATC is extremely easy to simulate realistically compared
to other aspects of flying.
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).
I can put myself wherever I see fit in simulation, sometimes with varying
success (depending on the desired viewpoint and the type of simulation).
There are some aspects that I find more attractive and enjoyable than others.
An advantage of simulation is that I have a choice.
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