At one point or another, we may have all seen those movie clips or those TV skits in which the pilot of an airliner gets killed by the bad guys in the middle of a flight.
And there is nobody in the cockpit left who can fly the aircraft. So the stewardesses interrogate the passengers to see if anyone on board who has any history of flying experience, who may be able to take the controls of the aircraft, so that Air Traffic Control can talk them through flying the aircraft to come down for a safe landing.
Why does it seem like the only guy who has any amount of flying experience, always happens to be the one whose only experience piloting airliners is with the couple of hours spent tinkering with a flight training simulator game for his computer gaming console?
The above situation may sound like the stuff that movies are made of, but there is a certain degree of truth to it. Is this situation really all that far-fetched as it may seem?
The fact of the matter is that aviating a plane in a flight training simulator is a realistic experience. The computer software engineering required in developing modern flight training simulator software has advanced to the point where it has literally effaced the lines between simulation and reality.
So by becoming proficient at aviating aircraft in a flight training simulator, you will have gained enough familiarity to shorten the gap between the simulator and its real-life counterpart.
And, in the hopefully unlikely event that such an emergency as described in the nightmare scenario above were to actually happen, you would be ready to aviate that aircraft safely down onto the runway, using nothing more than the knowledge you gained by operating the simulator.
So all of that practicing with a flight training simulator just might save your life someday!
With regard to all of the advances in computer engineering technology that we have available to us at our disposal these days, in the 21st century, one of the greatest and most essential resources that every pilot, regardless of whether he or she happens to be a novice pilot or an ace pilot, must have available to him or her, is a trustworthy flight simulation program.
A flight simulation program can help to bridge the gap during those unexpected periods of lengthy downtime between flights.
It could even help you to brush up on your skills, help you maintain proficiency, and could even enable you to earn some more focus in those areas in which you could see some improvement.
Flight simulation software can help you become a safer pilot.
They can even help you to save money, as well as time, on unnecessary training or unnecessarily having to repeat performing the same practice maneuvers over and over again.
The good news is that, flight simulation technology is so advanced, that piloting a simulator is just about every bit as realistic as piloting the real deal. The instrument panel is identical. The control inputs are the same. The geographic "map" built into the simulation is based on real world cartographic information. The way the aircraft reacts to various internal (weight and balance, fuel, aircraft performance) and external (weather phenomena, air temperature) forces is designed to simulate real world scenarios.
For a number of people, a flight simulation program is merely a really high-tech video game. And on many levels, it can be enjoyed in that capacity. After all, you never have to worry about crashing the aircraft in a simulation!
But for many others, a flight simulation program is a professional learning tool, and for many professional pilots, it is fundamental foundation of one's aviation career.
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