Subject: PC flight simulators
From: Glenfiddich
Date: 11/19/03 5:12 AM Pacific Standard Time
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I've got MSFS, and also once was paid to play with military-class
full-motion simulators (including Harrier).

I'd like to offer a simple test for whether any device is a game or a
"real" flight simulator - can it give you white knuckles?


That said, even if PC sims are not "real", they should certainly
be counted as valid training aids.


A valid training aid yes. But a very limited one that is never a substitute for
actually flying. White knuckles? Never. But I think that many here have never
experienced white knuckles or anything close.White knuckles is what you get
10,000 feet over the Ruhr valley with a sky full of 88's. Not on a PC.

..

Arthur Kramer
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