The Eternal Question......

 

That was a terrible landing....he totally wrecked the nose wheel undercarriage and terrified the passengers...FAIL!

::Scratches head:: Either this is a clickbait title or I'm misunderstanding the world "REAL". Awesome simulator, but the title is very misleading. 

28 minutes ago, blueshark747 said:

That was a terrible landing....he totally wrecked the nose wheel undercarriage and terrified the passengers...FAIL!

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1 hour ago, Keirtt said:

::Scratches head:: Either this is a clickbait title or I'm misunderstanding the world "REAL". Awesome simulator, but the title is very misleading. 

Times are hard....gotta clickbait for the engagement and views no matter what, or get left behind by everyone else.

Huh?  There's a simulator in this video (the level D), and a video game (the desktop sim).  There's no airplane at all??

30 minutes ago, Stearmandriver said:

There's a simulator in this video (the level D), and a video game (the desktop sim).  There's no airplane at all??

A fact he mentioned in the video, and probably why the word *real* in the title was enclosed with asterisks......

I almost wish we had a separate forum for all these needless "Lo0k @ M3" videos.

(yes I understand the irony in opening a thread with a clickbait title that I could easily avoid!)

I was once in a 747 simulator at Frankfurt Airport, which belonged to Lufthansa. It cost around $400 an hour with a real (former) pilot at my side. Full safety checks include. And yes, I was able to land the 747, but the landing was definitely hard, not in the middle of the runway, and not at the ideal touchdown point. If that had been a test flight, I would have lost my pilot's license. I took the 747 simulator because I couldn't get an appointment in the 737 simulator in Berlin. I did my training in the PMDG.
What really impresses me is the realistic feel of the forces when moving the aircraft. But I wouldn't claim that I can fly. In real life, any simmer without a real pilot's license would be a danger to themselves and everyone else. That's my assessment.

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57 minutes ago, Alti said:

I was once in a 747 simulator at Frankfurt Airport, which belonged to Lufthansa. It cost around $400 an hour with a real (former) pilot at my side. Full safety checks include. And yes, I was able to land the 747, but the landing was definitely hard, not in the middle of the runway, and not at the ideal touchdown point. If that had been a test flight, I would have lost my pilot's license. I took the 747 simulator because I couldn't get an appointment in the 737 simulator in Berlin. I did my training in the PMDG.
What really impresses me is the realistic feel of the forces when moving the aircraft. But I wouldn't claim that I can fly. In real life, any simmer without a real pilot's license would be a danger to themselves and everyone else. That's my assessment.

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I’ve had my PPL for about 15 years and flown around 600 hours- I say that just to say that if I stepped into an airline cockpit even with my MSFS experience I could certainly keep the airplane wings level and use the autopilot to turn and descend and all that but the main issue I’d have is using the radios and flying a jet at the same time.  If I was able to figure out what frequency to use, and be able to program the ILS correctly( assuming it’s not an airbus) and if it was in daytime VFR with a 50 mile straight in approach to a very long runway I could probably get the airplane on or near the runway but it’s a fantasy to think even someone with basic airmanship and 100’s of hours in a GA aircraft would know what they are doing in a airline cockpit.

6 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

🙃

You knew the nature of the video beforehand but still felt the need to use the very same click bait title as a thread title.

You can now hold three of these...🙃🙃🙃

Edited August 27, 2025Aug 27 by blueshark747

1 hour ago, blueshark747 said:

You knew the nature of the video beforehand but still felt the need to use the very same click bait title as a thread title.

That's cause' there's not a thing wrong with the title. The real issue is that its a Youtube video, and we have some people who harp about those on a regular. At this point, its expected, and I just focus on those with actual comments about the video.

EDIT: By the way, unless the title is too long for the forum, I always list things exactly as I found them. Why? Because lf later, somebody went to post the same video and did a forum search to make sure it had not been posted previously,. they would likely not find it unless the titles matched.

I've been informed a number of times over the years that something I've posted was already an existing thread: Which I never found because the thread poster changed the name to something they felt comfortable with, thus making it almost impossible to find with a search for duplicates.

Edited August 27, 2025Aug 27 by HiFlyer

56 minutes ago, HiFlyer said:

That's cause' there's not a thing wrong with the title. The real issue is that its a Youtube video, and we have some people who harp about those on a regular.

Yup!

We all know how to find this stuff on the dedicated YouTube site if we want too.

Don't know why this forum is littered with this stuff that we have to scroll through.

I don't recommend anyone click on the stuff to give someone revenue from clicks.

By the way... The Title is Extremely misleading or I wouldn't have clicked on it!

1 hour ago, HiFlyer said:

At this point, its expected, and I just focus on those with actual comments about the video.

Meanwhile you simply post these videos all the time with no real initial explanation nor comments about what YOU actually think about said content.

13 hours ago, HiFlyer said:

The Eternal Question......

In the utmost botlike Reddit engagement farming manner....🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

10 minutes ago, tpete61 said:

The Title is Extremely misleading or I wouldn't have clicked on it!

Misleading to whom? I saw the asterisks and immediately interpreted them as being equivalent to air quotes.

Some people get it, some people do not. 🤷‍♂️

I see the misunderstanding originating with the reader and not the video creator, who likely trusted that most internet-familiar watchers would understand what he was doing.

Quote

 

Air quotes, also called finger quotes, are virtual quotation marks formed in the air with one's fingers when speaking. The gesture is typically done with both hands held shoulder-width apart and at the eye or shoulders level of the speaker, with the index and middle fingers on each hand flexing at the beginning and end of the phrase being quoted.[1] The air-quoted phrase is, in the most common usage, a few words. Air quotes are often used to express satire, sarcasm, irony or euphemism and are analogous to scare quotes in print.