Originally Posted by
BEagle
And all at +1G....
That's why real pilots are so sceptical about increasing levels of simulation than are bean counters seduced by the flashy graphics of gaming applications...
I recall an exercise during AFTS termed 'Medium Level Turns'. This involved about 30 min of high G turning "Pull to 5G, squeeze to 6....how many fingers am I holding up?" Huffing and puffing against the anti-G suit whilst trying to look into your six.... Probably followed by STUPRECC recovery. No amount of simulation can match that!
Totally agree, you cannot use a simulator to teach basic flying such as steep turns or the like. For what it's worth, I am not flying fewer "live" hours now than I was on my previous platform, but I am going to the sim more often - and getting more out of each sim than I ever did on my previous type. I'm absolutely not advocating cutting flights to be replaced by sims, just pointing out that much more can be gained in the sim these days than could have been gained in the (fairly recent!) past.
You say you last flew as Red a month ago, so you flew F35 as red on a TI sortie?
I am not going to give you an exact answer because I'm not at work, but in the past 2-3 months I've flown red for TI, in LFEs, for other platforms and for in-house training.