Subject: PC flight simulators
From: "Anonymous"
Date: 11/18/03 7:07 AM Pacific Standard Time

But I still wouldn't class MSFS as a game simply because it isn't capable of
offering what a real aircraft or a purpose-built
multi-million £/$ aircraft simulator can.

MSFS can teach you things. But it is a game that can teach you things. Of all
the responses I got to my oirst post mostly insulting flames and personal
attacks most refused to accept the fact that it wasn't flying and resented it
being called a game. It is a damned computewr game. When you sit at your
computer you are not flying anything. You are playing a computer game. It had
educational benefits, biut it is still a game. If all you ever know about
entering a pattern you learn from MSFS, you are in deep troub;le. Very deep
trouble.If the only IFR you ever learn is from MSFS you are in deep trouble.
If youi have no air time but thousands of hours on MSFS, you still can't fly a
damn thing except FS. And that amounts to the fact that you have become good
at a game. Nothing more. It also shows that reality is slipping away from many
on this NG. Or maybe it was never there.But your post takes a more balanced
view without a flame in sight.Thank you for that..

Arthur Kramer
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