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Old 17th Apr 2005, 21:35
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Irish Steve
 
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You know that's not true! How would you do the emergency decompression drill, or pilot incapacitation, of for that matter the RTO with all the bells going off for an engine fire with MS Flight Sim????
Most of that is type specific, so you'll end up doing it in the sim anyway.

A long time ago, not long after Kegworth, Aer Lingus needed to get a group of cadets through an MCC course, and at that time, they were new CPL's with very little ME time, let alone jet time.

For operational reasons, they decided that the best way to do this training was with a specialised FS4 (that tells you how long ago it was) based dual control system, using specialised scenarios that developed the MCC aspects of the training.

It worked.

It wasn't a motion sim, it wasn't even an enclosed cockpit, and there were other limitations, but it worked.

The important aspect wasn't that it bounced hard if the landing wasn't right, it was that they could correctly develop the interpersonal skills needed between the crew members in an aviation related environment, which FS4 was able to provide.
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