Role of desktop flight-sims
I know a very detailed 767-300 MS Flightsim add-on that recreates the look and feel of the real FD almost 90% in terms of the instrucments, their usage and which actually work. The package comes with detailed flight and FMC manuals running into a couple of hundred A4 pages. While it is still a theory that the hijackers who flew the aircraft so well and on target could have reaped some (however little) benefit from a desktop flightsim, wouldn't you think its scary that such amounts of detail should be made available to ordinary people at $30 !! If this was proved, would law require immediate withdrawal of such "games" from the market?
My intention is only to spur a healthy debate among the professional community - please do not read any more into this. I have myself been a user of one of these flight sims and found it very enjoyable.