I posted the article to my Facebook page to make sure as many people I know saw it as possible. Very positive.

The NYT article is well written and infomative and hopefully will damp down some of the more hysterical reactions to MH370 rather than encourage them.

 

A similar reaction to home simulation happened after 9/11. We are still simming 13 years on.

I remember I was in high school at the time of 9/11.   They published an article in a local magazine in which the writer used FS 95 at that time to show us in pictures and word how he would take off the default 737 and then simulate flying into the towers.   I just laughed at that.   I was like yeah right, let us see if you can now do that in real life LOL!

 

I agree that article is very well written though and I cannot really see that our hobby can come under scrutiny.   You will need a Level D simulator to get that hang of the aircraft if you want to do something silly.   The sweatbox in your basement won't help you, unless as stated, you have some real flight experience and wants to train in new or difficult approaches.

 

Kind regards

 

 

The sweatbox in your basement won't help you, unless as stated, you have some real flight experience and wants to train in new or difficult approaches.

I agree that our flight simulators are far from sufficient to be able to fly manually real aircrafts, however, I do believe that some addons become realistic enough to be able now to handle the systems of modern airliners including autoflight and FMC.

With access to Fcom and QRH, some might even be able to handle some of abnormal conditions that may be encountered during a flight as long as it doesn't imply flying manually.

Reprogram a FMC to change the route of a B777 doesn't seem out of reach.

Of course I'm sure that wrongly interpreted my words would serve the cause of the paranoid guys who think we can become a terrorist using flight sims...

The way I see it, the captain of MH370 simply loved the 777, just like many other aircraft enthusiasts and pilots. What if he just wanted to fly a 777 where he doesn't fly one in real life? He's just another 777 fanatic, and the media don't seem to realise this. 

 

 

Of course I'm sure that wrongly interpreted my words would serve the cause of the paranoid guys who think we can become a terrorist using flight sims...

 

LOL!   Yes I do agree on the complexity of the add-ons we do have today.   I have had experiences in real flying where I could take off, climb and fly the aircraft as well as set up the approach, they just would not let me land the aircraft (I wonder why???) LOL!

 

I also agree with the fact that I think the Captain simply loved the 777.   Period.   Is that not why all of us are flying it anyway?

 

Kind regards

Is that Capt. Rob posing with his personal flightsim rig at the top of the article?  LOL...  :lol:

 

OK, I give up, Capt.  What's the toilet paper for?    :LMAO:

 

I too thought it was a decent article (overview), especially given the circumstances...

I think one of the dumbest things I've read so far relating to MH370, was a BBC quote from an unnamed Malaysian investigator who said, "the blame lies with the captain because, only the captain had the knowledge to fly the aircraft the way it was flown, the co-pilot would not have been able to do this"  I know I'm only a sim captain, but my understanding is that on 99.9999% of all multi-crew aircraft, both aviators upfront are (should be) fully qualified to operate the aircraft within its entire envelope of operation.

 

I sent this article out to a few people just to show them I'm not some freak with a mental issue, there are a lot of us freaks with mental issues out there flying and smiling