I found Jerry's statement humourous, though I do agree with MH: Flight
Sim (I still have ver. 5.1) is a very good program. I've never upgrade
to FS'98, since it is Windows-based, and I've never had good luck with
Windows-based programs. I think that the DOS-based older versions are
much better. I've enjoyed many hours of flying. Perhaps the post was
off-topic, but I intended it as more "general-computing" related rather
than MS-bashing.
Unrelated, doesn't the ARMY or NAVY one use a customized DOOM for combat
training?
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.
>
> 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.
>
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> Michael Hasenstein
> http://www.csn.tu-chemnitz.de/~mha/
> Private Pilot (ASEL) since 1998
>
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