Jason
Senior Member
Isn't it also important to note that pilots rarely ever land the plane on their own these days. In fact doesn't autopilot pretty much get the plane on the ground, and it will disengage once the wheels touch the runway. So practicing a landing seems like a moot point.A 2% grade in a runway surface is NOT a problem for an experienced pilot.
I think the more important question, if I may, is why would an experienced pilot who has a full time job and flies all year long need to require his spare time playing with a flight simulator. A pilot, as far as I can tell, pretty much flew similar flight all year long. Would a pilot with 2 decades of experience be bothered with fooling around on a simulator on his day off? From what I gather, and by the responses on here it was nothing more than an upgraded video game. Who doesn't love a good game here and there, hell I even own a PS4 (don't tell my 9yr old because he thinks its his). But when I play games I like a challenge, something out of my comfort zone. What would an experienced pilot with over 20yrs of flying experience find challenging on a simulator "game". Could be Diego Garcia, because he knows he would never be allowed to land there in a million years, but still sort of boring. What do pilots love about flying and the airports they vist? Do they like practicing on the hardest runways in the world, or flying into the Maldives or Diego Garcia, because I could name a handful of aiports in the world that are 100 times more intriguing than those two...
And I open the question up to pilots on this forum. Would you fool aroud with a simulator on your day off after flying for over 20yrs? If you did what sort of scenarios would intrigue you or that might challenge you. So that you would want to play on it. I say play on it, because everyone is chalking it up to no more than a video game..
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