Antarctica simulator is a strange piece of software.

I tried to ignore this silly software in previous weeks because it interefered with my google searches for real situations. However, this morning I guess I'll post it here as part of my study-- even though it's quite clear that they've simulated an island Antarctica and not a rim version as you would find on flat earth. The effort gone into this is substantial and they SAY they've got accurate data. The following video is just a trailer. The company that created it is Aerosoft. Antarctica X (FSX+FSX SE+P3D) http://www.aerosoft.com/cgi-local/us/iboshop.cgi?showd,,12123


Note what Aerosoft reports on their website about their Antarctic data collection. It reminds me of my own problems as I work on this blog trying to determine the circumference. 

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A major problem for this project was getting access to the

 data as there are so many countries involved and many feel 

the geographical data has strategic importance. Only after the

 developer got into contact with pilots and scientists who were 

actually in Antarctica things started to move forwards.  

Dozens of databases had to be combined and often these 

only existed in the paper format and had to be manually 

digitized. Often databases conflicted and details had to be 

found elsewhere



Getting the aviation related information was easier but 

even here it was hard to find out what the real pilots are 

using.. 


The respective organizations and pilots usually prefer to keep 

that information to themselves because (fuel/food/emergency-

) supplies are very limited and therefore they don’t like anyone

 who’s not part of their select company to fly there. Without

 aviation there would hardly be people in Antarctica.