Fri Feb 26, 2021 2:33 pm
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Cessna571 wrote:It’s just another flying machine.
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No. It isn't. It's a computer program.
Cessna571 wrote:It’s just another flying machine.
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lobstaboy wrote:Or lets say you lose your medical and cant be P1 (not even a PMD). You are offered a choice; and you must choose one and only one option. You can go flying as a passenger as much as you like with willing pilot friends and enjoy folks company at the airfields you visit, or you can use a really good commercial grade simulator at home on your own. Which would you choose?
Rob P wrote:As it will never be an either/or choice the question is flawed.
One does not prevent participation in the other
Rob P
lobstaboy wrote:I'm trying to get folk to think about what flying means to them.
lobstaboy wrote:I'm trying to get folk to think about what flying means to them.
lobstaboy wrote:How wrong I was:)
Miscellaneous wrote:I see a correlation between sims and those who honestly consider themselves sports nuts because they have a season ticket for Anfield, spend every Saturday night watching highlights, only to spend Sunday discussing Saturday's results over 10 pints down the pub.
There's some sort of disconnection from reality.
TopCat wrote:Unlike the flying nut that's content to sit in an aeroplane as passenger, be flown by someone else to an airfield, and then sit in the cafe talking about flying?
TopCat wrote:Rather than engage with a sim physically and mentally, and, for all I know, socially as part of a engaged online community?
Miscellaneous wrote:Bit over zealous there in your defence, TC. Where's your season ticket for, Stamford Bridge?