07-24-2012, 03:12 AM
The 9/11 terrorists are known to have used Microsoft Flight Simulator as part of their training. In fact, after 9/11, Microsoft patched it so it wasn't possible to crash anymore, the planes just bounce off buildings and the ground.
The Navy built some cheap off-the-shelf simulators using Microsoft Flight Simulator for cadet training. Those cadets aced the trainer flights and the Admiral was astounded with their performance. The cadets said they "had seen everything before".
http://www.baseops.net/flightsimulators/
Military Aviators Train with Microsoft Flight Simulator
"Recently there have been a DOD study (see below) that has shown that Pilot Training students that used the Microsoft Flight Simulator program scored better than their peers that did not. A Naval pilot training student performed so well in training that the Navy instituted the Flight Simulator program into the syllabus and have strongly endorsed students use this program to practice."
The point about the new MS Flight simulator is the only map it comes with is the Big Island. It encourages low level flying over the island. Bill Gates and his buddies have their own floatplanes and they fly around the Puget Sound in groups, landing in places like Gig Harbor to go to the local watering hole.
The reason the Big Island is the starting map in MS Flight is due to a lot of interest on the part of the 1% as a playground. People do realize Paul Allen and Michael Dell, as well as several other 1% have vacation houses here?
The helicopters don't bother me but some of them are DEA green harvest operations. They are flying low to find marijuana patches and dropping down to pull them out. I saw that strange looking copter over Hilo again last week and nobody was paying attention. It didn't look like a standard Army copter and I am pretty sure why now. This is what I saw:
http://images.defensetech.org/wp-content.../MQ-8C.jpg
The Navy Boeing Firescout UAV has been a failure so they are looking at a modified Kiowa UAV.
I have seen a P-3 doing touch-and-goes at the Hilo airport on multiple occasions. That is the really low, loud airplane that flies over HPP and Beaches sometimes. I have seen B-1B's at Kona airport and there are other military flights into Hilo airport. Anyway, just saying, people should expect a lot more air traffic.
The Navy built some cheap off-the-shelf simulators using Microsoft Flight Simulator for cadet training. Those cadets aced the trainer flights and the Admiral was astounded with their performance. The cadets said they "had seen everything before".
http://www.baseops.net/flightsimulators/
Military Aviators Train with Microsoft Flight Simulator
"Recently there have been a DOD study (see below) that has shown that Pilot Training students that used the Microsoft Flight Simulator program scored better than their peers that did not. A Naval pilot training student performed so well in training that the Navy instituted the Flight Simulator program into the syllabus and have strongly endorsed students use this program to practice."
The point about the new MS Flight simulator is the only map it comes with is the Big Island. It encourages low level flying over the island. Bill Gates and his buddies have their own floatplanes and they fly around the Puget Sound in groups, landing in places like Gig Harbor to go to the local watering hole.
The reason the Big Island is the starting map in MS Flight is due to a lot of interest on the part of the 1% as a playground. People do realize Paul Allen and Michael Dell, as well as several other 1% have vacation houses here?
The helicopters don't bother me but some of them are DEA green harvest operations. They are flying low to find marijuana patches and dropping down to pull them out. I saw that strange looking copter over Hilo again last week and nobody was paying attention. It didn't look like a standard Army copter and I am pretty sure why now. This is what I saw:
http://images.defensetech.org/wp-content.../MQ-8C.jpg
The Navy Boeing Firescout UAV has been a failure so they are looking at a modified Kiowa UAV.
I have seen a P-3 doing touch-and-goes at the Hilo airport on multiple occasions. That is the really low, loud airplane that flies over HPP and Beaches sometimes. I have seen B-1B's at Kona airport and there are other military flights into Hilo airport. Anyway, just saying, people should expect a lot more air traffic.
*Japanese tourist on bus through Pahoa, "Is this still America?*
