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If simulation were perfect, no one would need real flying hours for licensure or type qualification.
by aaronem 12y ago
If simulation were perfect, no one would need real flying hours for licensure or type qualification.
- icebraining 12y agoThey aren't perfect for humans, who can't replace their eyes for direct video feeds and their internal ears for accelerometer readings. It's hard to simulate a plane for a human, because you need to make physical stuff that acts and sounds and feels like the real thing. For computers, the same isn't true, because you can inject a recorder between its sensors and its "brain" and then disconnect the sensors wholesale and feed input data directly using just software.
- eric_h 12y agoAgreed, but part of the benefit of real flying hours is to expose the human pilot to situations of fear and stress (and to learn how to deal with that). A computer, on the other hand, has no need to be trained to deal with those particular emotions.