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Old 18th Mar 2014, 05:51
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Originally Posted by CowgirlInAlaska
Time of India reports: Practice runways for Male, Indian, Sri Lankan airports and 1 US military base found on seized flight simulation software.

What do you all make of this??
Microsoft Flight Simulator contains thousands of runways "out of the box".

Maybe they meant "add-on airport packages" - you buy them to get more detailed visual scenery around certain airports. It tells absolutely nothing - you don't really need these bells and whistles to practice landings, and every serious flight simulator enthusiast will have a lot of such scenery packages installed.

Microsoft Flight Simulator doesn't have a built in FDR, so I doubt they will find out exactly what he was doing with it. They might be able to figure out the rough areas where he was flying the last time by looking at the "last accessed" timestamp of individual scenery files. But that's pretty much all you can figure out - unless he he explicitly recorded his simulator flights.
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