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Flight sim people are on another level (startrek.website)
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[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (1 children)

To go along with this is also risk to one's health and potentially death.

53 per 100,000 pilots was the death rate amongst pilots in 2018 according to The University of Delaware .

This doesn't sound like a lot, until you consider it was the #2 most dangerous occupation in the US that year.

Behind #1 Loggers (111 per 100k) and ahead of #22 Police Officers (14 per 100k).

So it's one thing to have a flight sim rig and at worst fall off your chair. A whole another thing to potentially make a mistake in an actual plane and pay the price with your life.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Adding a bit to that: you can do all sorts of stupid maneuvers in a simulation with zero consequence, like doing a barrel roll with an Airbus Beluga.

Plus, there are combat flight sims.