Captain Rhodes noted that all his aircraft fly like aircraft. 707s, for example, fly like 707s. His simulators do not fly like aircraft and my simplistic answer is that the reason they do not fly like aircraft is they are not aircraft. The simulator is fundamentally a box sitting on the ground (Tait, 1972).
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