An idea of mine.

[kjevans]

Hi,
a thought that I have had in my head for a while now is that because there are probably more PC pilots in the world than actual pilots, why don't the
likes of the NTSB and other agencies of this ilk from around the world, release their findings or the details relating to an air accident in such a
way that it is capatible with flight sim software.

Lets say, for instance, an accident occurs where there is some kind of instrument or mechanical failure and this leads to a crash. What if all the
available data was in some way stored as say an fs2004 flight plan with all the aircraft data such as, type of aircraft, type of failure, weather
conditions, altitude etc, etc..

All the simmers around the globe might be able to access this information and try to see if there was a way that the accident could have been avoided.

The one advantage maybe we as simmers have is the fact that our accidents/crashes cost nothing, we can keep on going over and over the scenario time
and again and we have not had the ligitimate training that a real world pilot needs to go through, which means that we may have the ability to think a
bit more laterally and not solely by the book.

Maybe by many people trying the same scenario over and over that new information will be gleaned to help real world aviation.

Forgive me for posting my thoughts here that do not directly involve FSP, it just seems like this place is full of people like myself who has an
absolute passion for flight and using the FSP expansion for MSFS is probably the closest most of us will get to sitting in the real pilots seat.

Maybe we could all give something back to possibly the one thing we feel passionate about.

Okay, prehaps FS2004/FSX will need a bit of tweaking to allow what I am thinking but surely anything is possible.

Just my thoughts, tell me to get lost, get a life, etc.. if you like. I just needed to air them.

Kirk..,

[Daza XIII]

If such a system were tried out someone would have to sort through all the information sent in by us to find what may be useful. I would
guess that would be a mammoth task and produce very little (if any) information that was of any use and so it would not be cost effective
to even try.
On top of that any organisation conducting an investigation has control over what they are investigating. They would have absolutely no
control over information supplied by a bunch of online virtual pilots and as such would have no way to verify whether the information is
accurate. We all know that someone, somewhere would attempt to corrupt or alter data in some way just to be malicious and try and
send it in as being true.

[kjevans]

Daza XIII wrote:
If such a system were tried out someone would have to sort through all the information sent in by us to find what may be useful. I would
guess that would be a mammoth task and produce very little (if any) information that was of any use and so it would not be cost effective
to even try.
On top of that any organisation conducting an investigation has control over what they are investigating. They would have absolutely no
control over information supplied by a bunch of online virtual pilots and as such would have no way to verify whether the information is
accurate. We all know that someone, somewhere would attempt to corrupt or alter data in some way just to be malicious and try and
send it in as being true.

Good point, understandibly the system/data would need a standard set of rules encoded somehow but as for the mammoth task of organizing the data, only
data that concludes with the accident avoided should be eligable and this could be processed by a computer say and then only checked for verification
by human eyes.

The problem with malicious people basically putting a spanner in the works is, however, an issue that is a bit more difficult to overcome. Prehaps a
system where signup is needed and checks are done, I don't know, maybe someone else does.

The only people that probably would do such a harmful thing are people with a grudge against an invovled party or someone with a financial interest in
the outcome, these of course would have to be looked into.

It would be nice to get more replies to my post though to get an overall opion and maybe shed light onto the question you have posed.

Many thanks Daza Xlll

Kirk