Good points Max, You just beat me to it...
Coming from the helicopter world, anyone who thinks that simulators can play anything more than a minor part in our training is talking rubbish.
Sims are useful for checks, emergencies and basic/procedural IF, not much else.
Hovering, underslung loads, NVG and low-level tactical ops can only be properly learned in the aircraft itself. (Which unfortunately aggravates civpop a bit, but it MUST be done.)
(But posters here who fly nothing but procedural IF for a living wouldn't have a clue what we are on about!)
Last edited by Training Risky; 28th Aug 2003 at 14:36.