On Sun, 20 Jan 2008 11:59:23 -0800, Mr Travel wrote:

The main thing is that you can test the effects of particular actions
& failures on a simulator that you would not *dare* to do in real
life. Thus they are great for safely training a person to cope with
an emergency situation where a wong move in real life would kill you
or cause a lot of damage.

I don't think they use the MS simulator for this.
That is the only one Chilly knows about.

No, they don't, though the later MS simulators are pretty neat toys
that simulate a remarkable range of situations fairly accurately.

They are *very* suitable for learning and training for IFR procedure
holds, arrivals and departures, and can save the PPL pilot who is
undertaking such training quite a bit of money.

--
Cynic