On May 8, 8:54*pm, a wrote:
On May 8, 8:13*pm, george wrote:

On May 9, 9:02*am, XXXXX wrote:

It's difficult to parlay a great deal of respect for a group when the
number one cause of conflict and off topic drivel amongst users is due
to the fact that the most prolific poster of on topic posts is
universally hated solely on the basis that he is a sim pilot.

He isn't hated.
You don't 'hate' ignorance.
You try to cure it.
And his only connection to aviation is a game
He is not a pilot.
The group was here before him and will be here long after all those
posting now are dead...

The truth is, MX's 'questions' sometimes provoke interesting
discussions and some of the posts offer insights that are useful to
those of us who actually commit aviation. I'm a fairly high time pilot
and in the past adopted a couple of things mentioned he they had
not come from MX's keyboard but may have, in a case or two, were part
of a thread he started. "Like what?" *Well on long XCs at night, I go
on oxygen at 10,000 feet -- earlier I left the O2 tank untapped until
a good deal higher. I am more apt to fly clearing turns going into
uncontrolled airports, and being in a Mooney tend to fly my entry legs
at pattern altitude from 3 miles out, *downwinds and bases a bit lower
and a bit faster, it's easier to see and avoid slower and/or high wing
traffic that way.

Of course his naivety for real world aviation issues is often good for
a chuckle. Have you ever talked with a person with ten year's
experience, and discovered he had one year of experience ten times? MX
believes literacy in sim derived aviation talk means expertise. We
think otherwise, a gulf that will not be bridged. It is entertaining
though *an image shaking on a screen prepares a pilot for turbulence?
Vertigo at a desk?

Read what you will, sometimes there's a nugget among the crap posts.

Here are a couple of habits I have that real aviators might find worth
considering. MS sim drivers can ignore what follows.

1 --I keep a couple of Ziplock bags in my brain bag -- useful for both
motion sickness and frankly sometimes on a long XC can provide the
immediate relief someone (in one or two cases the PIC) needed from too
much en route coffee,

2 -- that Five Hour Energy drink (in my case half a bottle) is much
more effective in increasing alertness than a thermos of en-route
coffee, and as an additional benefit can save on zip lock bags (see 1
above).