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Ben Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: "Flight Sim used for evil?" 09-13-01, 19:54z  ____________________ Like all Americans, I'm deeply horrified by the tragic events over the last couple of days. My thoughts and prayers go out to the families that lost love ones. One of the stories that have been making the airwaves is one of the terrorists may have used a desktop flight simulation to "train" for his terrible plans. As flight sim'ers we need to band together and set the record straight about flight simulators. First, there are two kinds of "flight simulators" out there and the public at large needs to know the differences. The first type is the walk-in, cockpit mockup type of simulator that the airlines use to train and certify their pilots. The second type are the desktop PC-based flight simulators that we all know and love. While the desktop counterparts are a great teaching tool for creating better trained, safer pilots, the media needs to recognize that PC flight simulators alone would not provide enough of the required training to repeat this horrible act. Someone off the street cannot buy a PC-based flight simulator and then get into an airplane and do what those guys did. The critical pieces for gaining the skills and knowledge required to fly any aircraft (let along a commercial jet) are a flight instructor, and access and training in one of the complex Level C or Level D flight simulators (or the real aircraft). Flight sims are great training tool, but they're not replacements for actual flight training. What scares me about this latest turn of events is there will likely be some group of people out there wanting to ban desktop flight simulators if we let this get out of control. It's up to us, the people that know what can and can't be done with flight simulators, to speak out and let the truth be known. Ben Top

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Subject      Author      Message Date     ID      RE: Flight Sim used for evil? Tom Hayward 09-13-01 1   RE: Flight Sim used for evil? Ben Chiu 09-15-01 2    More lunacy... Ben Chiu 09-21-01 3

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Tom Hayward Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 1. "RE: Flight Sim used for evil?" 09-13-01, 20:44z  ____________________ Thank you Ben. We must consider all aspects of the tools we have, and strive to bring good, peace and freedom with them. Otherwise, before you know it, we will be banning rocks, and the earth will have to be destroyed, because it may some day be used to ram into another planet. Something to think about. _________________________ It seems a group of geography students were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of their course, they were asked to list what they each considered to be the Seven Wonders of the Modern World. These got the most votes: 1. The Grand Canyon 2. The Empire State Building 3. The Great Wall of China 4. The Pyramids of Egypt 5. The Taj Mahal 6. St. Peter's Basilica 7. The Panama Canal As the teacher was going over the results, he noticed that one girl had not turned in her paper. He asked if she was having trouble with her list, she responded, "Yes. I can't make up my mind because there seem to be so many." The teacher said, "Let me help. Read what you've got so far." The girl hesitantly started to read, I think the Seven Wonders of the World are: 1. to touch 2. to taste 3. to see 4. to hear 5. to run 6. to laugh 7. to love Do we take more notice of the "wonders" man has built and tend to forget about the real wonders that God has given us? Yes, sometimes. They may seem just ordinary to us, and we need to be reminded, as the student has done, of how truly wondrous they are. May we all remember to take better notice of God's true wonders of the world, and then praise and thank God for them. _________________ Thomas S. Hayward Top

Ben Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 2. "RE: Flight Sim used for evil?" 09-15-01, 12:22z  ____________________ It has begun... Shops in the UK have taken FS off their shelves... http://www.msnbc.com/news/628909.asp Top

Ben Chiu Certificates/Ratings/Crew Stations: 3. "More lunacy..." 09-21-01, 14:21z  ____________________ "How video games influenced the attack on America" http://www.zdnet.com/anchordesk/stories/story/0,10738,2813454,00.html Top

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