Welcome!

Welcome to the Simulator Training blog. With this service the cadre of SimTrain simulator instructors will hopefully educate, entertain and inform you of the myriad of benefits of simulator training and the advantages of incorporating it into your recurrent training.

A few of the benefits of simulator training include:

• Allowing the pilot and instructor to focus on scenarios that simply should not be conducted in a flying aircraft. For example, a loss of an engine on takeoff requires the student to react quickly to control airspeed and avoid the temptation to make a steep turn back to the runway. This can be taught with complete safety in the simulator.
• Providing the ability to identify a developing problem, stop its progress, provide instruction and remediate the situation.
• Making your training more cost-effective per practice procedure than flying your own aircraft. A simulator instructor can have you fly twice as many procedures in the simulator per hour than is possible in your plane.
• A quick and efficient method of instruction when time restrictions on the part of the student require it.
• More effective training. A combination of aircraft and simulator training is more effective than training in the aircraft alone. A number of studies have verified that a combination approach results in a more proficient pilot in a shorter time than training based solely on in-aircraft flight instruction.

Fly safe!

Jim Clutter

Simulator Test Pilot