If user fees go into effect I'm done

Judah writes:

Your definition of GA is inconsistent. Here you say GA is anything but
airlines. Before you said GA is anything that is not commercial.

Call it commercial and non-commercial, then.

I don't think that is practical. How many hours of training are required to
learn to fly safely in a simulator?

Fewer than the number required in a real aircraft, mainly because a simulator
can simulate all sorts of things that are impractical, expensive, or truly
dangerous in a real aircraft.

The pilot wouldn't even understand the behavior or proper use of Trim
without any actual flight time.

Sure he would. The simulator works just like the real aircraft.

This is safe?

Absolutely. And much cheaper than using real aircraft. That's why it is so
attractive for training. Only regulatory barriers prevent it from being done
in the U.S.

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The pilot wouldn't even understand the behavior or proper use of Trim
without any actual flight time.

Sure he would. The simulator works just like the real aircraft.

You yourself expressed a lack of understanding of trim.

Simulator time alone is not sufficient for safe flight.

Judah writes:

You yourself expressed a lack of understanding of trim.

What did I misunderstand about trim?

Simulator time alone is not sufficient for safe flight.

Actually it is. And in the future you will see airline pilots even in the
U.S. who have trained exclusively on simulators prior to their first revenue
flight with passengers. As technology evolves, training in a tin can for
flying an airliner is becoming as irrelevant as training in a rowboat for
piloting a supertanker.

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Mxsmanic wrote:
Judah writes:


You yourself expressed a lack of understanding of trim.


What did I misunderstand about trim?


Simulator time alone is not sufficient for safe flight.


Actually it is. And in the future you will see airline pilots even in the
U.S. who have trained exclusively on simulators prior to their first revenue
flight with passengers. As technology evolves, training in a tin can for
flying an airliner is becoming as irrelevant as training in a rowboat for
piloting a supertanker.


No one in any country is even near doing it that way.

Haven't you by now learned to never let reality interfere with
simulation? :-)

On Feb 18, 9:13 pm, Sam Spade wrote:
Mxsmanic wrote:
Judah writes:

You yourself expressed a lack of understanding of trim.

What did I misunderstand about trim?

Simulator time alone is not sufficient for safe flight.

Actually it is. And in the future you will see airline pilots even in the
U.S. who have trained exclusively on simulators prior to their first revenue
flight with passengers. As technology evolves, training in a tin can for
flying an airliner is becoming as irrelevant as training in a rowboat for
piloting a supertanker.

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