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Microsoft Flight Simulator tricked me into getting a pilot's license (theverge.com)
17 points by satoshiiii on April 3, 2023 | hide | past | favorite | 6 comments


These talks about importance of "what it feels like to lose control of your vestibular system when you fly into a cloud", makes me funny.

When it is may important or even unavoidable for small aviation to use visual flight, commercial aviation use redundant instrumental flight, where vestibular system is unnecessary.

Even more - general aviation is first area of human activity, where instrumental flight could be safer than "visual" just now.


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