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The topic was truth in advertising and calling a flying game a flight
simulator.

Since flight, and only flight, simulators have a legal definition, calling
something a flight simulator that is not is false advertising.

That's not the way the law works.

Claiming that a flight simulator can be used to log hours or for training
recognized by the FAA when the simulator has not been certified by the FAA for
these purposes is indeed fraud, but simply calling it a flight simulator is
entirely legal and is not at all false advertising.

All the flight simulator game sellers are quite explicit in saying what
they are selling is a game.

No, they are not. Visit the Web site for X-Plane, which tries hard to give
the impression that their simulator is certified by the FAA. (In fact,
X-Plane can be _part of_ a certified simulator, but you cannot just download
it and log the hours.)

Microsoft calls it a game so that they won't be sued. X-Plane comes from a
small company (mostly from one person, in fact), and is a lot more "flexible"
in its description.