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Old March 3rd 09, 07:58 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
Tim[_1_]
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Default Sad day for Mxsmanic


"-b-" wrote

To paraphrase, the programs are not completely without usefulness, but

they are
not simulators.


That's not what he said, he said they weren't "flight training devices".
The FAA has a definition for what qualifies as a "flight training device",
or FTD. They do not have one for "simulator". Webster does, and MSFS seems
to fit that very general definition: "A device, data processing system, or
computer program for representing features of the behavior of a physical or
abstract system."

Notice it doesn't say "all features" or "exact behavior" because those are
qualitative. MSFS is indeed a flight simulator, albeit a poor one.


 




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