Go to post "oh dear, someone is still using this tired old non-story" 7/24
for a through disscussion on the sim/terrorist theories (included a very
moderate reply from me). No doubt they may help polish skill levels, but
most agree it takes a lot more in the "real world".
A dedicated psycho will find a way kill and maim, regardless.......
Cheers,
Don

"R. David Steele" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 27 Jul 2003 11:46:58 -0500, "Don Parker"
wrote:

|David,
|Go to www.flypfc.com and take your checkbook!
|I gave up on the plastic stuff several years ago. You pay, but you ENJOY
|the hell out of it, and it's built to last forever (lifetime warranty)!!
Or
|at least until technology leaves you in the dust, I recently had to go to
a
|DB-15/USB converter to keep the yoke airborne.
|Here's a shot of my humble virtual cockpit, which doesn't hold a candle
to
|some of the IMAX configurations shown lately, but it keeps me happy for
|hours on end, and out of the bars & alleys at night. (:-))
| www.cox-internet.com/tazman/cockpit.jpg
|Primary view is Sony 19" trinitron, left secondary 15", right is old
|RGB/composite monitor (left over from IBM jr.!!) that has a external
tuner
|for in flight movies, to the right of that is the radio stack with
weather
|radar (cleverly disguised as a radio spectrum display), and Cirrus PFC
Jet
|Yoke. After many decades as a field service engineer on medical
equipment,
|you'll also notice the onboard Cat Scanner G. I discreetly moved the
|porta-bar for the photo..... A Dell XPS 3GHz, 800 MHz FSB, 1GB ram,
Radeon
|9800, SB Audigy, and 200GB HD is the power plant, nestled down beside the
|desk. What looks like a roll of toilet paper on top are actually paper
|towels for the occasional hair ball or dr- er, coffee spill.......
|Cheers'n beers.
|Don

Why did the 9-11 terrorists even want flight training with this
available? All they could have said was that they were into playing
expensive games and make a good simulator!!!

BTW, nice "shack" (ie radios)

| I recently toured the Purdue University's Aviation Technology Flight
| School. They have a lab that is designed to train personnel from
| Private Pilot right through airlines. What impressed me wasn't their
| 727 simulator (from Boeing) but rather that they had mock ups of
| planes like the Cessna 172 that had real cockpits!
|
| I guess that you can purchase the equipment from catalogs. Instead of
| the second rate controllers from Best Buy, why not buy the more
| expensive controls? And a good aviation rated seat.
|
| Didn't the Smithsonian Aviation mag just have an article on folks who
| have created extremely good, and realistic, simulators?
|
| BTW, I find X-Plane more of a package for real gear heads.
|
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