This made me chuckle...

[stearmandriver]

Doing an online FIRC, got to the module on ATDs and the discussion about making sure you understand just what a specific device is approved for. This was the image they chose to illustrate their point....

[falcon409]

Kinda leaves you speechless doesn't it, lol. . . .WOW!

[Ganter]

And people ask: "Can I use FSX for real world flight training?"

Looks like the real world flight trainers think so!

What version is that, FSX 3?

[IanP]

Looks like 5/5.1CD to me. 4 was vector graphics.

An approved training device can run any software, provided it is appropriately licensed and is approved as part of the package by the regulatory authority. This is what annoys me about the constant statements that XP is "FAA Approved" - it isn't. It >can< be approved as part of an ATD package, but isn't automatically approved.

Considering that MS didn't do a separate ESP-esque version of FS back then, I'm slightly surprised that it isn't Elite or something similar (which, when used with its own hardware, was automatically approved) but there's no reason that FS5 shouldn't be. Heck, I learned to fly instruments on FS5 and it helped me a lot when I got into a real aircraft... Actual pilotage, not at all, but knowing what the instruments did was useful!

Cheers,

Ian P.

[roger-wilco-66]

If they had shown a gorgeous screen shot of an A2A C-172, they couldn't have made their point by showing it. The onlookers could hardly tell it from a real photo.


Nice memories, my first flight sim was by Sublogic on an IBM XT, in 1982. The XT even had two floppy drives, and Hercules graphics on a green screen monitor :-)


Cheers,
Mark

[srgalahad]

Looks like 5/5.1CD to me. 4 was vector graphics.

Cheers,

Ian P.

So I had to go and pull my box of FS5.0 out of the cupboard to be sure... but no, 5.0 used textures so there was actually a panel image. The image above is highly similar to the one https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...screenshot.png
in this article showing FS4.0 (1989)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Histor...ight_Simulator
.

Gordon, I think I still have a Herc card in a box in the corner of the basement if you need a replacement

[fsafranek]

Took a questionnaire once by AOPA or some other organization on piloting aptitude.
I was in the high 90's until I answered "Yes" to a couple questions about "Do I use
Flight Simulator". Aptitude rating went down at that point.

What do they know?