On May 16, 2:59*pm, Gig 601Xl Builder
wrote:
Le Chaud Lapin wrote:

I use the simulator for things that the simulator is good for.

Getting experience with VOR tracking in a simulator is a lot cheaper
than hands-on-training in a cockpit at $100US/hour, for example.

-Le Chaud Lapin-

But you are learning, or not learning as is probably the case, out of
order. Sort of like learning Algebra before you know what 2 + 2 is.

Certainly the learning is not entirely linear. There has to be some
benefit of a simulator that can be gain independently of being in a
cockpit.

Someone wrote a post here not long ago claiming that all ATC reps
should have licenses, for example, which implies that there are ATC
personnel who do not.

Is all that knowledge useless? Is all of it irrelevant to flying? If
those ATC personnel without licenses decided to get licenses, would
they have to be brainwashed of all things learned for ATC and
retaught?

I am using MSFS to practice initerpretation of airport visual aids,
for example.

I doubt that, when I get my license, I will have to unlearn that and
and have an an instructor (at $40/hour) help me re-read the book.

-Le Chaud Lapin-