[fireman15]

(FWIW, I was the designer of the first version of FSim’s Flight Lessons. I've been a flight instructor for 35 years.)

I have always found the lessons included to be very valuable. I thank you for your contributions to this software realm.

My brother is an airline captain. Before he moved on to the major airlines, he was a check airman for his regional. The airline leased large hydraulic enabled reproduction simulators of the Metroliners that they operated. I assume it could simulate other aircraft as well, but this was many years ago so I actually do not know.

One time when he had no students scheduled, he invited my dad and I up to try it out. It was an incredible machine. My dad got airsick before the hydraulics were even turned on.

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I'm going to admit (and gloat at the same time) that around 1990, I and a couple of other pilots from Champaign (not Bruce Artwick) made use of 40-hours of (mostly) 6DOF Boeing simulators (727, 737, 747, 757, 767) on Boeing Field in Seattle in the never-ending quest to improve FlightSim.

While in Boeing Field sims, we had at our beck and call a top Boeing instructor. When he signed people off using those sims, such pilots were type rated to carry a hundred or more actual passengers behind them.