My overall point being, flight simulation software has brought opprotunity to those people who may not have found a way to contructively learn and hone various skills. It has an extremely active online community who participate in creating a complete virtual aviation industry to include virtual airlines (VA's), voice and radar controlled live air traffic control (ATC) services, aircraft and scenery designers, add-on software design ect. It boasts billions of downloadable add-ons made by users of the software. Flight simulation software has one of the largest online communities in the history of on-line gaming. I think to minimize the good these programs do by saying that they are a terrorist training tool is a very ignorant thing to say.
Such software, can help someone discover aviation and educate them on the very respected feild of aviation. I say "useful" because I've had my life changed by such software and I've seen countless instances of troubled youth finding a outlet in learning to fly via flight simulators. I think this is a very close-minded approach to a very useful application. See, everytime someone mentions flight simulation software, someone has to mention terrorism.