On May 4, 11:16*am, Blanche wrote:

And strangely enough (and I can't believe I'm saying this) Mx has
made a perfectly reasonable route suggestion.

While the route suggestion is perfectly reasonable, his response to
VOR DME was not.

He types in as if he is flying the route, he is not. I mean really he
says (these are HIS words) "I'm not into daring things. I'm into
safety and simplicity". What is daring about going off a victor
highway in MSFS???? What is unsafe about going off a victor highway
in MSFS. Does the computer reboot if he busts airspace? And to my
knowlege even if the computer rebooted, there is nothing unsafe about
a reboot of a computer. Now, if he said his G1000 rebooted while in a
REAL plane, Houston we have a problem. Heck I don't have any glass
cockpit time so maybe it's not a problem. Simply put, if one didn't
catch all the responses, you would never know he has never set foot in
a cockpit.

VOR DME's thoughts were more along what I would have done. Use GPS as
primary navigation not the airway. GPS way more accurate and as long
as you stay out of airspace, you don't belong in, keep the airplane
on the magenta line and maintain VFR with the ground? Nothing risky
or unsafe at all about doing this as long as you are on top of your
game. If you are not, then you shouldn't be flying in complicated
airspace anyway.

I think that when I ask a question that I get answers from qualified
people. I would hope that you would not count Mx as qualified to
answer real world question from MFSX experience.

Routing and flight planning I don't go to MSFS for scenarios. I use a
real bonified flight planner and fly it in the real bonified world
that expands beyond a computer monitor (or two)

All the flight planning in the world doesn't change the fact when you
plan something and something uhhhh, like a cloud (understand not
likely in Phoenix but a scenario) is between you and your
destination. In all my MSFS sim time, this has never happened to me,
yet in the real world, I have had to deviate to avoid the cloud while
VFR several times while ensuring I remain clear of airspace while
enroute. So, I am pretty safe to say Mx is NOT qualified to answering
questions about flight planning.

I think that Mx's background needs to be brought front and center to
those that step into this newsgroup (I have never seen RT12 post
before) so they understand that he is not qualified to respond to real
world situations when he isn't even a student pilot.