I'd be happy if they could even get the basic stuff to work like a real aircraft! I just spent five weeks wrestling with a supposedly level D sim that would not fly an ILS to 200' minimums if any turbulence was insertedl! Not to mention the fact that any resemblance between the ground handling of the sim and the aircraft was purely limited to the fact that the controls actually moved in the correct direction when inputs were made.
Right now (as I understand it) the builders of the sims acquire a "data package" or somesuch for each given aircraft that is supposed to give them all they need to program in all the whozits and whatzits to do their job. Anything outside this, they just seem to go with what makes sense. As a consequence, the same malfunction programmed into two different sims (sometimes those from a different company) can give drastically different warnings, etc.
Somehow the "governing bodies" don't know much about this as they will happily certify based mainly on what the data pack says. I've seen some really basic stuff (like even a gen fail, or a gearbay overheat, or ADC failure) on certified sims give indications that don't even match the basic parameters of what any groundschool graduate has learned.
How does this stuff get by? I realize that there is stiff competition in this industry, but why not make certain things universal (although I hate to suggest that the governments should involve themselves)for a given type and make it mandatory that it be included as a part of the flight parameters?
But of course that's just the rantings of somebody who's been away from home too long...........
