Radar Simulation Facilities
This is really a question for non NATS folk. Cause NATS have plenty of these.
Do other units have their own simulation facilities, or is all training on live radar (post college training)? What about training for new procedures/airsace?
If not, where do you go to use sims?
Would there be a use for an ATC simulator, complete with support staff (psuedo pilots, tech assistance etc..) that could load up your airspace and run simulations with your own OJTI/LCE staff?
How about this then? - an ATC simulator and aircraft simulator co-located and interoperating. So an airline running a sim check would show as one of the aircraft in an ATC simulation. Imagine the TRUCE value....
It would be a bit like a professional development of the VATSIM/MS Flightsim arrangement.
Cost and Technical restrictions aside - do you think either of these two facilties would be of value to the industry?