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I doubt it. I visited an operational naval submarine simulator recently. It was basically the electronic guts of the actual submarine, hooked up to sensor simul
by steve19 12y ago
I doubt it. I visited an operational naval submarine simulator recently. It was basically the electronic guts of the actual submarine, hooked up to sensor simulators and wired into a replica of the bridge (or whatever they call it on a sub). If they wanted to replicate a ship, they could. there must be a reason they prefer to simulate it in the real world on a smaller scale.
- ghshephard 12y agoMy understanding is that simulators today aren't powerful enough to provide real-world acuity, so, that even though these smaller-scale models come with their own artifacts (including time compression, and in the case of the panama, unrealistic visual comprehension of the environment) - the scale model is still significantly more realistic than what you can do in a simulator. They probably won't be powerful enough in 5 years, or perhaps even 10 years, but I wouldn't take the bet that in 15 years they won't be able to simulate, with sufficient fidelity for pilot training, a ship moving through the panama canal. I'm guessing the complexity of the ship-in-panama model environment is a couple orders of magnitude less than what the first officer of an airplane has to deal with; it will be a lot longer before we'll be able to faithfully replicate that environment - if ever. (Far enough out that I can't even begin to guess if it's 50 or 100 years from now). Now, the wild card is, that even though you might be able to do the Panama simulation in 15 years from a computing perspective, it may still be much cheaper to simply do your 25:1 replica, particularly as you don't really need to train all that many pilots in the big scheme of things...