Originally Posted by JohnBurke

Stupid is as stupid does...I received a resume some years ago from someone claiming experience with an airline of which I'd never heard. Curious, I contacted the applicant directly to enquire. It was a "virtual airline," he said. I'd not heard of such a thing at the time, but was as it sounds: an imaginary airline that existed in virtual reality. He'd dress up in a pilot costume and get on his home computer at a scheduled time, as would someone else somewhere else in the country, and they'd "operate" a trip using some computer game software, as though they were actually flying a trip. He was logging the time.

He seemed shocked that I wouldn't accept that experience toward a job as a pilot. He had, after all, thousands of hours as a "virtual" airline pilot. No ATP, of course, but apparently a very nice costume and what he said was very realistic software.