"C.H." > wrote in message
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> You can learn strategies or things like navigation with simulators. What
> you cannot learn with simulators (unless you get a multimillion-dollar
> full-motion-simulator) is how to actually handle a car or a plane.

Perhaps, but I think you are overstating the case against simulators.
Nobody is suggesting that the Airforce ditch all their T-38's in favor of
Pentium IV's and a Cougar HOTAS.

And actually, I find the newer cars to be more and more like a computer
sim/game in their handling. Especially with all that drive-by-wire
throttle, electronic power steering, etc. The new steering wheel's are
even almost the same size as my Logitech Momo force feedback wheel. The
only real diference- the force feedback is obviously not realistic (the new
wheels on the real cars have very little feedback), but it does provide
useful feedback that you would feel in a real car, just in other ways (ie,
through "the seat of the pants").