Re: No Pseudo-Pilots

FledgeIII writes:

It was?

There was no advance practice in real spacecraft prior to actually doing it.

This is pretty common in space travel, where there is no practical alternative
to careful simulation. Fortunately, simulation does the job.

I'm thoroughly satisfied with Bertie's credentials, though I haven't
asked his permission to divulge them.

Names on screens don't have credentials.

Quite true. Several hundred bucks and *anybody* can be an armchair
ace. That may even provide a nebulous foundation for an opinion. But
hardly an authoritative one.

Desktop simulators are ill suited to simulation of aerobatics and dogfights.

The trouble is that repetitively arguing that sims are in any way a
reasonable substitute for "real world" experience from an opinion
derived on that knowledge base lacks any real credibility.

I don't depend on my credibility; I expect people to think for themselves and
do their own research. Then they can decide on their own how useful sims
might be.

What's more, it can seem positively autistic when the same obscure rhetorical
arguments are repeated ad nauseum.

Which arguments are those?
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