Wednesday, February 15, 2012

Microsoft flight simulator; x-plane?

Ive used microsoft flight simulator; and it simulates actual flight conditions and actual flight controls. So considering that microsoft flight simulator, and plane-x, both offer a lot of educational flight learning on real flight principles, why do otherwise knowledgeable aviation people insist on being jackasses and keep telling people to post their microsoft flight simulator questions in Games???? Microsoft flight simulator teaches about airplanes and flight!!! the people in games dont know sh-t about airplanes. They know zilch about flight!!! they just want to push buttons and zap figures on screens and get high scores in stupid stuff like mortal combat or fast and furious or some dumb sh-t! Why is it so friggin annoying for some of you airplane know-it-alls to see microsoft flight simulator questions? If you dont want to answer them. just dont answer them!!Microsoft flight simulator; x-plane?
There exists a certain category of pilot who invests a great deal of his self-esteem in his pilot's license. Low-time private pilots are disproportionately represented in this category. The license is very important to the egos of pilots like this, and they become defensive and abusive when anything threatens the prestige that they believe a pilot's license represents. Most of them do not use simulators and do not know exactly what can be done with simulation.



Experienced and well-adjusted pilots do not feel threatened by simulation, and may even find desktop simulation useful for certain purposes, such as "preflying" planned trips, practicing instrument flight and navigation, or practicing in the use of aircraft systems on complex aircraft.



Neither Microsoft Flight Simulator nor X-Plane is a game. Both are simulators. That's why true gamers become bored very quickly with these two programs.



It should also be kept in mind that the MSFS base product is considerably less functional than MSFS with an assortment of useful add-ons. Some add-on products for the simulator make such a dramatic difference in the simulation that it's like having a completely new simulator. Detractors of desktop simulators typically have no experience with advanced desktop simulator configurations, since they avoid the use of simulators in order to not dilute the importance of their lofty positions as real-world pilots.



Oddly enough, I've found that airline pilots with 10,000 hours are a lot more likely to accept and be interested in desktop simulation than low-time private pilots who use a pilot's license mainly to prop up a fragile ego. I guess the airline pilots aren't afraid that their self-worth will disappear in a puff of smoke if they dare to touch a desktop simulator.
Because asking how to fly Microsoft products isn't asking to fly a Cessna or any other type of airplane.



Mistakes in Microsoft have no chance of causing you bodily harm or damage to the aircraft, or for that matter even getting you a letter from the friendly guys at the FAA; therefore, it ain't the same, period.Microsoft flight simulator; x-plane?
Good point. In fact, one of the largest aviation schools in Canada out of Buttonville Municipal Airport just north of Toronto has a computer lab that incorporates Microsoft Flight Simulator X in their licensing program.
Who cares. ask. I agree MS Flight Sim is a good tool.Microsoft flight simulator; x-plane?
vey good point marc, i think there should be a place for more of fs questions and yeah i would ask a pilot before asking a guy at gamestop. you bring an excelent debate over where to go for info? and personaly if it was about higher frame rates and better graphics it should be in computers and games, but if its about flying charicteristics of a b747 on landing during bad weather then yeah ask the real pilots

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