Originally Posted by
Westfield 11
How is simulator training a bad thing? And what's wrong with playing with flight sims.....? If you cannot afford to own your own plane or afford the rental time to maintain proficiency they can be quite useful. Flight students apparently find them to be very helpful.
And if you don't, for whatever reason, have a pilots ticket, good sims can be very immersive and an enjoyable pastime as well as a shared father-son hobby. One that can continue to be enjoyed for decades after one is physically unable to pilot a real aircraft......
BTW one of the highlights of my time with McDonnell-Douglas was the hour spent in the C-17 simulator one night in Long Beach. I even got a try at a takeoff, go-around and landing.