Simulators and Enhanced Training

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Development of a Full-Flight Simulator for Ab-initio Flight Training with Emphasis on Hardware and Motion Integration

“…First, flight simulator training has been shown to reduce the cost of flight training while improving the effectiveness of the training [1]. Flight simulators typically incur lower operation and maintenance costs; with studies from 1992 finding that simulator operation and maintenance costs were typically 8-20% lower than the associated aircraft costs, with the margin expected to increase especially as technology costs decrease and fuel costs rise [10]. Second, flight simulation accelerates the rate of acquiring experience as pilots can experience in a short time many different flight scenarios; scenarios they might have otherwise never experienced in the aircraft [2].…”