> If the simulator would be FAA-certified, would you say that they simulate things accurately enough? There are different levels of FAA-certified for sims, an

> If the simulator would be FAA-certified, would you say that they simulate things accurately enough? There are different levels of FAA-certified for sims, and I think we can agree that X-Plane is very much on the lower end of the spectrum. My understanding is that X-Plane is based on limited geometric data, meanwhile at the other end of the spectrum, the Level D simulators that the airlines use are formally validated and tested against the real aircraft’s flight data. So yeah, not accurate enough, ESPECIALLY (as @ inoffensivename pointed out) the sort of things you might want to use it for basic student pilot training.