[fireman15]

That is amazing! Thank you for telling us of your experiences.

I have never been more than a Private Pilot after starting out hang gliding, moving onto ultralight aircraft and then GA aircraft. My brother and I used to construct huge Rogallo style kites that we would try to get pull each other aloft behind our tractor. Later after he was already flying for a regional airline, I bought an old Rogallo style hang glider that had floats and we towed it behind his boat. It was a lot of fun, but not really comparable to flying in the mountains under a double surface high performance hang glider wing.

I have enjoyed playing with flight simulators for many years. Although this has been somewhat sporadic depending on what else I have had going on in my life.

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In about 1992, I was invited to be a member of the FAA committee that would ultimately set forth standards for desktop simulator to full up 6DOF simulator use in ways the FAA could consider using as qualification equivalence for existing requirements, e.g., IFR approaches for Instrument Currency requirements, among many others.

Here are a few more examples of "auspicious" Flightsim users who made a mark or two with their extraordinary/unusual skills.