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PoindexterOglethorpe

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7. There was a time when certain aspects of pilot recurrent training

Reply to thomhartmann (Original post)

Wed Sep 27, 2017, 05:53 PM

Sep 2017

was done by going up in real airplanes and performing whatever was deemed necessary for the training. Once or twice a year one of those planes would crash, sometimes because some rather tricky maneuver was being done. Sometime in the early 1970's airlines switched over to doing that training entirely in simulators.

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Is Your Life Worth More Than Airline Profits? (w/Guest Charles Sauer) [View all] thomhartmann Sep 2017 OP

Guess what: Commercial pilots already train in simulators. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #1

Did you also find the video hard to watch? Major Nikon Sep 2017 #3

Yeah, I gave up on it. It was apparent Hartmann doesn't know The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #4

Geez, there's so much ignorance in this video it's impossible to watch Major Nikon Sep 2017 #2

Exactly right. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #5

Even at the private pilot stage, some of the training can be done in simulators Major Nikon Sep 2017 #6

As the technology improves there will be more use of simulation. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #8

Level D sims cost several million $ each Major Nikon Sep 2017 #9

10 years ago a new level D sim cost about $22 million. The Velveteen Ocelot Sep 2017 #10

Compare that to logging time in a kite Major Nikon Sep 2017 #11

There was a time when certain aspects of pilot recurrent training PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #7