It is not unusual for a pilot to have a flight simulator in his home!

[Mojo Electro]

any more than it would be unusual for am NBA player to have a hoop in his back yard. Being a pilot isn't something where people just go "oh, well, gotta get a job to pay the bills, I guess I'll get a job as a pilot."

Pilots tend to be passionate about flying and love what they do. They live and breath airplanes.

I'm not saying they shouldn't examine the simulator, especially for things that might suggest he had been practicing maneuvers thought to have been been flown by MH370. Certainly that could be of paramount importance. The pilot could very well be responsible for this. But this notion that it is somehow suspect that a pilot (with 18000 hours of flight time) would be passionate about flying is ridiculous.

It's just a way for the media to whip up hysteria and keep the story going even though they have no new information.

[NV Whino]

1. I visited a home just yesterday of a pilot with a simulator

He was an Air Force pilot and is still passionate about flying. Unfortunately, we didn't have time to play with it. We were off to a fracking protest. But he designed the thing to be portable. He takes it around to air shows to inspire kids to be pilots. And, of course, he still flys himself.

[Barack_America]

2. Agreed. I believe Capt. Sullenberger had the same.

A pilot having a flight simulator at home is evidence of nothing other than an interest in flying.