Missing Malaysia Air plane

[KenAdams]

It's so sad. They still haven't found anything, but thinks it's crashed into the sea.

For anyone that hasn't heard

The pilot had a simulator.

That's what I came to ask Public

Wouldn't it be an unusual pilot that had a simulator at home?

I think it's the DM article I linked earlier that said friends and family said he was so dedicated he had a flight simulator at home. But yes it is odd.

Did the Malaysian transport minister confirm?

But i thought the pilot had been flying since the 80's with thousands of flying hours - why would he have a stimulator?

They said a pic was posted of the flight stimulator on his personal Facebook page

Even experienced pilots continue to use simulators. We have a friend who flies for Qantas and if he goes more than a few weeks without flying he has to go back in the simulator.

I don't see why it's relevant that one of the pilots mayor may not have a simulator at home. After all, he's one of the two people on board who everyone knows is capable of flying and manoeuvring a plane.

Thank you, meditrina will do. Must have missed it

It's a shame MAS shorthaul flights don't have wifi....

Somebody else could have been using the stimulator, who knows?

Arf at stimulator

Oh God yes PLEASE stop saying stimulator

My uncle was a pilot, he had a simulator, my teen cousins said that's how they learned - they followed him into the profession. So that in itself wouldn't worry me, on my v limited experience.

Pilots use simulators in regular training, but to have one at home is decidedly weird.

What's funny about stimulator, that's what its called isn't it?

Of course it's not!!!!

It isn't a sTimulator. It's sImulator. It simulates flights.

No a stimulator is um, a 'marital aid' as it stimulates you

A simulator comes form the root similar I assume, as it simulates the flight experience

STimulatating is something else altogether...

No, it's SIMulator.

As in the same root as simile, similar, same...

as in, it's similar to flying an actual plane.

It does not serve a stimulatory purpose, unless you're into that kind of shit

Lol

x posts with everyone

Flight simulator not stimulator

I just wondered why a pilot would have one at home as I thought they would practice at official ones at work and they must be expensive? And where would you put it! But obviously not that uncommon after all, I take it back.