Hey
AHRS:
My statement was intended for your lack of succinct qualifications to demean MSFS as a pre-flight training devise was on the subject of MSFS and not the real simulators. If you wish to verify how the programming is vetted it is best to approach the individual companies that produce the add ons(which is my focus rather than MSFS itself).
This thread was announced with the intent on getting a definition..just DEFINITION of what a Level D simulator was and whether the aircraft on the list I had shown have any fitting to that definition...it was not a trick question or a cryptic one either.
Sorry. I am not at all sure what you are saying in your first sentence quoted above. I don’t have a desire to learn how MSFS goes about recruiting “add-ons” or how they determine the compatibility of those “add-ons” to the basic program. In my book, MSFS is still MSFS.
I fully recognize your original request was for the “definition – just the definition” of a Level D simulator. Unfortunately, one cannot fully reduce what constitutes a Level D simulator into two or three short sentences. That is why I provided you with the link to the FAA’s National Simulator Program Staff Home Page, from which you can research to your heart’s content – and, after reading sufficiently, you
should be able to understand the “definition – just the definition” of a Level D simulator.
For what its worth, I regret that you think I’m “picking” on you or that you feel that I am “trifling” with the successes of your flight training – for I have no desire to do either. What I was pointing out was what appeared to me to be a significant amount of bravado (ego) and even
more advice from you in your posts when there simultaneously appeared to be somewhat of an absence of experience to warrant either.
And, here, one more try, is a link that you might find less overwhelming and still informative:
http://www.faa.gov/safety/programs_i...Sim_Levels.doc