Michael Hasenstein wrote:
>
> On Mon, 12 Apr 1999, Jerry Lynn Kreps wrote:
>
> > That obviously includes crash traing....
>
> That statement is not based on facts and is not helpful.
Gee, Michael, I've been a private pilot since I soloed on 8/5/1980.
Also, I've flown the Flight Safety simulator (the big one) for the
Citation II. I've even used PC flight simulators to log IFR hours. I
own and have used M$'s Flight Simulator, before I left windows. (I even
enjoyed flying and landing a Boeing 737 sim just for kicks, but my
favorite flight simulator was the Falon F16). Now I run ACM 5.0 on
Linux. Ya think I might know what I'm talking about?
> Fact is, MS flightsim is damn good. See my signature below, I know what
> I'm talking about. It doesn't have FAA approval merely because you need to
> certify the flight controls with the software, and FAA certified
> simulators (i.e. you can log some of the hours in your flight log as
> 'simulated instrument' flight time) are for IFR (instrument flight rules)
> training only, while MS FS tries to be useful for VFR flight (visual
> flight rules) as well. Otherwise they don't need to change a lot if they'd
> want such certification. It helped me quite a bit in my own training.
>
> Also, I've never seen it crash. The flightsim itself seems to have been
> programmed well.
It will. You haven't seen the source so you cannot say with any
professinal certainty what the quality of the code is, or what bugs are
waiting to bite. You only indicate your lack of experience with Windows
in general when you say you haven't seen it (Windows or the flightsim)
crash. It doesn't matter how good the software is, it can be no more
reliable than the OS that supports it.
BTW, since you are a recent graduate of flight training school,
remember: there are old pilots, bold pilots but no old, bold pilots.
Learn to know when to fly the chicken hawk.
--
JLK
Linux, because it's STABLE, the source code is included, the price is
right.
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