This should settle it!

On 2007-04-16 08:43:33 -0700, "Mark T. Dame" said:

Mxsmanic wrote:
Mark T. Dame writes:

Note, however, we are talking about real simulators and flight training
devices (or at worst PCATDs, which have even more restrictions), not
games like MS Flight Simulator.

You do yourself a disservice by underestimating "games" like MSFS. It's a bad
attitude for a pilot to have--one of the danger signs.

Interesting. I'm a dangerous pilot because I don't think Microsoft
Flight Simulator has much value in real world pilot training. By that
logic, I should be able to race a Formula One race car because I've
played Grand Turismo... Or maybe I can be an astronaut because I used
to be really good at Lunar Lander. They're both based on real physics
and real vehicle performance just like MSFS, so they must be good
training devices...

That fact is that your insistence that MSFS is a more valuable training
aid than it really is makes me glad that you aren't flying a real plane.

(Dammit, I'm feeding the trolls again. Somebody smack me.)


-m

SMACK!

(Still, I want to see where AC 60-22 - Aeronautical Decision Making -
even mentions Microsoft Flight Simulator, let alone the part where it
says that refusing to use it is one of the hazardous attitudes.)
--
Waddling Eagle
World Famous Flight Instructor