Originally Posted by
airpolice
How sad that so many instructors seem to think that the lower the number of hours required to pass a skills test, is in some way equal to the quality of the pilot capabilities being endowed.
When there are so many different types of flying, how can the use of a PC based sim, of which there are varying levels, be so black and white? Should the RAF stop using PC based sims, despite the results showing how much they help the students?
Hang gliders, Flexwing Microlights and LSA to C172 and PA28 are all used as the first aircraft that a student flies. We can't really say that one is right, and therefore the others are wrong.
I can't see how a one size fits all type of rule can be appropriate. This really smacks of four legs good, two legs bad.
I assume from this that you are not an instructor. Why not become one and you can see for yourself. Sims are great procedural trainers but for the ab initio, they just don’t have a place.