Microsoft FSX Real-Life Weather

Mxsmanic wrote in
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george writes:

Jays Kiwi is a flight simulator that can be used by real live pilots
to enhance their real flying skills.
What you have is a game!

He is running the same software I am. The only real difference between
the two is in your attitude towards their owners.


The same laser can be used to:

1) Point out information to students on a classroom blackboard
2) Guide a handheld weapon
3) Create perfectly level beams in a construction project
4) Detect paper thickness in a paper manufacturing plant
5) Distract drivers as a prank on a highway

One tool, numerous uses...

The ONLY difference is the weilder of the tool and the manner of its use.

Just because you have a laser and a blackboard, doesn't mean that you are
a schoolteacher... You might just be a prankster.

MSFS is a tool. Enjoy it as you like.

"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
oups.com...
And I thought he'd gone away for a few days... Since mxsmanic has never
flown anything other than his computer game, he will never be able to
make a
comparison to actual flying, no matter how much he tries to argue to the
contrary.

So what? Aren't you (and the rest of you never-say-die MX-bashers)
getting just a BIT tired of this game?

MX is a harmless (if persistent) lad, and you guys are polluting every
thread on this group with your competition to see who can most
creatively insult him. PLEASE give it a rest?
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Spot on Jay!

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 21:40:02 -0000, buttman wrote:

thats 2 hours a day, everyday.

Yeah Jay... what's up with that?...
I think you're using fuzz math.

Mx says: 720 hours in 11 months.
720/24 = 30 days... not 4.3 months

So Mx only spends 1/11th of his time on earth Flight Simulating.

I'd be willing to bet he spends much more time than that on Usenet.

--
Dallas

george writes:

The difference is that the 'Kiwi' is populated by pilots who give each
other feedback on real life problems they have observed throughout
their flying careers both as PPL's and CPL's and testing the different
solutions possible in safety.

That's not a difference at all. You're confusing the user with the simulator.
The simulator is the same. No matter who uses the simulator, it will remain
the same. Therefore, if the simulator is adequate in one instance, it is also
adequate in another. It cannot be simultaneously good and bad.

For the 6 year old it -is- a game!

But not for everyone else.

If the user's opinion counts, then my set-up is a sim, since I consider it to
be so.

Dallas writes:

The RXP Garmin 430/530 for Flight Sim can't be upgraded with WAAS software,
topographic map databases/terrain awareness or the datalink receiver for
NEXRAD, METARs, TAFs and lightning data.

All the buttons work the same.

Snowbird writes:

How many simulated dollars have you caused in aircraft repairs, medical
treatment costs and insurance payments?

That's difficult to assess--but I'm talking about real money, not virtual
money.

Mxsmanic wrote in
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Dallas writes:

The RXP Garmin 430/530 for Flight Sim can't be upgraded with WAAS
software, topographic map databases/terrain awareness or the datalink
receiver for NEXRAD, METARs, TAFs and lightning data.

All the buttons work the same.


How would you know, fjukkwit?


Bertie

Jay Honeck writes:

$352 per hour to rent a plane? What're you comparing this to,
renting a Caravan?

No, I'm just in Europe, where 250 euro per hour is not uncommon (and with the
current exchange rate, that's a lot more in dollars).

And where I live, you can get the Private *and* Instrument ratings for
around $10K.

Where I live, the private pilot costs between $21,000 and $28,000 to obtain,
and an instrument rating is another $28,000 or so. Some pilots actually find
it cheaper to go to the U.S. for their IR than to pass it here, although a
U.S. instrument rating has some restrictions on it in Europe (in particular,
you can only fly a plane IR if it has a U.S. registration).

I find it incredible that you have spent the equivalent of 4.3 MONTHS
sitting in front of Microsoft Flight Simulator this *year*??? I
can't decide whether that's awesome, sick, or both...

I was surprised, too. But 720 hours isn't 4.3 months, it's about 90 days
full-time. It represents essentially all my leisure time.

buttman writes:

thats 2 hours a day, everyday.

Yes. Actually it's more like many hours on a weekend, and far less during the
week, but it works out to about 2 hours a day. A typical flight is an hour in
the air or so, plus planning time.

I spend about that much time watching TV or being on the internet in a
typical day.

I do use the Internet, but I don't have a TV. Some form of activity on the
computer represents 100% of my leisure time, and flight simulation is a major
part of that.

Dallas writes:

I'd be willing to bet he spends much more time than that on Usenet.

You'd lose. I spend a lot more time on simulation.