Dupre, a complex and interesting topic and I am gaining much insight on "the bus" from your and others attempts to answer these questions from France...I am sure your efforts will be rewarded fully some time down route but you truly Sir, have the patience of Job.
Flight sim for PC or MAC, On line access, freedom of information and a limited knowledge on a subject, to which one might feel at 14 they need answers, is a dangerous combination. Only a rich parent or lottery win away from P2F...?
And as for the monkeys and pigskin analogy...been thinking the same but unable to put it quite so eloquently....