Tim Capps wrote on Jan 4^th, 2014 at 8:26pm:

There is a certain irony about operating a computer to simulate operating a computer  ;D

Absolutely. My simming time is limited (as is my computing skills), so I don't want to spend hours on the ground number crunching for an hour or so flight. Plus the fact that modern airliners just don't do it for me, too tame. It must be that in the 1970/80s I lived under the flightpath to Heathrow when I could distinguish a DC8 from a 707 etc, + you can't beat the sound of a screaming jet.