Is Your Life Worth More Than Airline Profits? (w/Guest Charles Sauer)

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

8. As the technology improves there will be more use of simulation.

When I learned to fly some 30 years ago there wasn't much of it - my flight school had a clunky instrument sim that was a PITA to use and was more frustrating to set up and manage than it was worth. The new ones are far better, and are very good for instrument training (which a lot more of should be done at the PPL level). But I just don't see anybody coming up with a full-motion level D C-172 sim; that would be almost as expensive to design and build as an airliner sim when you consider having to program all the flight characteristics and possible failures. And the newer light aircraft have pretty complex electronic systems that would have to be included.