Years ago I worked on a flight simulator for the Air Force and talked to a lot of people (pilots, instructors, etc) about them. The general findings are that si

Years ago I worked on a flight simulator for the Air Force and talked to a lot of people (pilots, instructors, etc) about them. The general findings are that simulators are terrible for learning the physical skills of flying, and in fact can result in negative learning that must be "unlearned". However, our simulator was a procedural trainer - turns out there's lots of weird and complex procedures needed to learn to fly, and simulators are great for that because you can controls the situations and create really great learning environments.