What are they really like?
I was speaking to a fellow colleague the other day and he said that his son also wnats to be a pilot, but he is too young at the moment. However, this hasn't stopped him from trying to get as close as he can to aircraft and so his father bought him Flight Simulator 2000.
Now, his son finds it wonderful and says that the graphichs of aircraft are quite realistic. He has downloaded aircraft from the Internet and thoroughly enjoys playing on it, creating routes from Hong Kong to LA in all sorts of aircraft etc etc.
But, my question is, are they really an accurate representation of flight. Now, I know that it is impossible to re-create the actual feeling and bumps etc, but the weather and dynamics of it seem to be quite accurate. Has anyone got an opinion from first-hand experience on their effectiveness?