I like the Idea of the up and downdraft training scenarios. I think it would be a cool idea to add in different scenarios under training that highlight some of the dangers pilots may find themselves in such as icing conditions, cross controlled stalls, engine out procedures, and really anything else that could educate both student pilots and casual players.
Nice suggestions.
My guess is that these and more would be added in future updates. It makes for a nice learning experience.
Interesting concept. May be a bit of a challenge. Would likely need to ship as a training package, including a 1 TB SSD. 
The hazards and dangers as you described them are numerous. The type of airplane. The type of flying. The region and time of year. All these factors compound the number of things that can go wrong, exponentially.
In aviation, there is an old saying;
“Learn from the mistakes of others as you will not live long enough to make them all yourself.”
Early in my career, I made a point of reading accident reports. Everything from a student clipping another aircraft’s wing tip with his while taxiing to multiple fatality airline “controlled flight into terrain” incidents.
The number of factors involved in each incident is hard to get your head around.
Many of the things you mentioned in your post are things that real pilots never actually train for. No-one would intentionally fly an aircraft not certified for flight in known icing conditions into icing conditions to practice recovery procedures. That is not to say that these subjects aren’t carefully covered in ground school training.
Far more emphasis is placed on recognizing hazards from afar and how to avoid them. Understanding what causes airframe icing. What conditions are likely to present icing. How to plan to avoid those conditions.
What to do when inadvertently encountering icing is left to the end of the chapter. If you got that far, you weren’t paying enough attention to the opening chapters.
A valuable amount of information that the real student pilot would be exposed to is in the aerodynamics and meteorology sections of the ground school manual. This could be accomplished by some ground school videos. Airmanship can only be learned in the air, strangely enough. The concepts are covered by more ground school, but the understanding must be demonstrated in the air. This is where some guided, training flights could take a student through the basics.
- illusions created by drift
- steep turns
- stalls
- precautionary landings
are only a few of the lessons prescribed in the private pilot training.
If I could suggest a project for some adventurous soul. I would create a series of videos that focused on each of the lessons in the curriculum. This followed by an inflight structured lesson. Have a test flight available, using the same grading system used for flight testing. When the student has completed the ground school portion, the flight training would become available. After practicing the student would then need to complete and pass the flight test to unlock the next lesson.
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Excellent suggestions. I’m apparently out of likes for today but this deserves one for sure.
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