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FLIGHT TRAINING UPDATE
- Author:Dave Higdon
Aviation needs some good, solid pilots - preferably sooner, rather than later. Resources exist to mold them, develop them, and bring them into the world of wings to help aviation essentially survive.
FLIGHT TRAINING UPDATES 2009
- Author:Dave Higdon
According to accident figures and popular opinion, simulator training reduces accidents. Despite the availability of a wealth of high-tech training systems though, accident statistics for business aviation continue to show that flawed crew decisions dominate the underlying causes of a majority of accidents. To contribute to improving pilot judgment and thinking skills means changing attitudes toward training tasks and ...
FLIGHT TRAINING - SIMULATORS REVIEW
- Author:Dave Higdon
Throughout the nearly 105-year history of powered flight, humans have sought smarter, safer ways to learn the myriad skills required of the modern aviator. As flight technology has advanced, the demands put on flight-training efforts have increased with those new capabilities. And in parallel with the increasing sophistication of aircraft came a gain in the technologies used in flight ...
THE LATEST IN FLIGHT SIMULATION
- Author:Dave Higdon
You could pretty safely say Orville and Wilbur Wright were aviation’s first teachers – as well as the world’s first pilots. In fact, many of their contemporaries became pilots through the same academy as the Wrights – the School of Hard Knocks, University of Experience. But no sooner did the airplane evolve enough to carry two seats, dual controls made possible dual instruction. Before ...
