He makes a good point.

If you want to simulate a week in the life of a pilot, take that flight sim and try this:

Regional Pilot:

Get up at 0400 on Monday and dress for work. Since you probably don't live in your base, you will need to commute. Hop on a city bus and ride it around town for a few hours (keep in mind, each bus you get on MUST have an open seat, otherwise, you must wait for the next). This is your commute.

Okay, so now around 1500, go back home, hop on that computer, and start your trip. Fly four legs, each an hour long, in real time. Prior to each leg, go out to your car, check the oil, tires, and coolant level (to simulate a preflight), then balance your checkbook (to simulate filling out a manifest). Try to finish these four legs in and the other tasks by 2100 when you are released from duty.

Now you have 10 hours of rest. Stand outside for 15 minutes, then drive 15 minutes to your "hotel" (any place that isnt home), and enjoy your time off.

Day two show time is 0700, so get up, dress, eat, etc., then head drive back to that computer to be on time. Today you have seven one hour legs with departures at 0800, 0930, 1115, 1245, 1415, 1555, and 1720. Remember to preflight and fill out that manifest each leg. At 1835, duty out and drive to that hotel.

Day three show time is 0530. Seven more legs today. You are scheduled to be done at 1700, but the weather has gotten crappy. Your second leg departs 90 minutes late. Also, extend the taxi time of the fifth and sixth legs by 30 minutes. You finally duty out at 1945.

Head to that hotel.

Day four show time is 0400. Had you stayed on time yesterday, you would have had 11 hours of rest, but becuase you finished late, you only had 8:15. Between the drive to and from the hotel, your need to eat a meal or two, and time required to shave, shower, and s@@t, you net about four hours of sleep. The good news is you only have five legs and the weather has cleared. Things go well, and you finish up around 1300. At last your trip is done.

All you need to do, is commute home. Hop on that city bus for another four hours, then head home.

Corporate pilot:

Monday morning your boss wants to depart at 0800, so have everything ready by then. He shows at 0810, and you are wheels up by 0815 for the 1:30 hour flight. His meeting will take all afternoon, so plan a 1700 departure. During the dead time, go sit at your local FBO. Fill your time by reading, watching tv, dozing, or playing on your laptop. The boss gets back at 1730, and you get back to base by 1900. Post flight, drive home and you are home by 2000.

Tuesday's departure is 0800 again. At 0930, you get a call from the boss saying the flight is canceled today. Reschedule it for tomorrow.

Wednesday 0800 you depart on time for a 45 minute flight. The boss wants to return at 1500. Around noon, you walk over to the BBQ place across the street for lunch. Just as your food arrives, your phone rings: the meeting was cut short, he is at the airport and wants to leave now. You box up your lunch and jog back to the plane, rush through a preflight and fly home.

Thursday, departure is scheduled for 1200, returning at 1700. Sitting in the FBO, the clock passes, 1700, 1800, and 1900. At 1925, the boss shows (he decided to take the client out to dinner). You fly home, put the plane to bed and are done by 2100.

Friday, no flights.

Saturday starts a three day weekend. The boss wants you to fly him and "a couple friends" to Vail to go hiking. The plan is to leave at 0800 for the 3:50 flight. When the gang arrives, "a couple of friends" ends up being seven people eiach with a couple hundred pounds of gear. Luckily, you expected this and didn't fuel the plane. As you load the bags, the fueler arrives and you tell him half tanks. At the same time, you tell your boss that a fuel stop is required. He understands, but one guy (a pre solo pilot) chimes in with, "I thought this thing could make it all the way there on one tank." You explain the weight issue to him and he gets it. But, having done such a good job teaching him weight and balance, he decides he wants to ride in the right seat. He does, and for the entire flight, he bugs you with questions and his own "expertise". You spend the weekend in a hotel, while your budies back home are having cook outs.