Flight Simulator Is Everywhere

[andyjohnston]

I wasa watching the news today, and saw something interesting.

You know how they'll display a little graphic over the shoulder of the anchor reading the new? Well, the story was about weather conditions and how they were affecting the roads, so they showed a stylized picture of a congested road. Then the story changed to how the weather was affecting air travel, so the picture of the road stayed, and a 747 was superimposed over it.

I suddenly thought...I've seen that picture before. I rushed over to my desk and pulled out my copy of FS-2002, and sure enough, they had lifted the plane directly off of it.

I wonder if that's even legal?

[kingnorris]

Remember back when that small Delta Connection plane took off from the wrong runway and crashed, killing all onboard? CNN used FS2004 to recreate what happened. I believe it's legal, so long as MS gives permission...

[Nels_Anderson]

I've seen things like this too. Probably easier sometimes to get an image from a sim than from the real thing...

[pipersam]

I remember reading in the papers that a show simular to air crash investigation on discovery were going to sign a contract with microsoft to use FS2002 to replicate the crashes, but discovery said that the damage modelling in MSFS was not up to the standards that they required.