| Learning to fly a plane takes long hours of training. | | | | the right airport, and other scenarios. |
| For safety reasons, flying an actual plane during | | | | Flight simulations are used to train all types of |
| training is not allowed thus an airplane simulator is | | | | pilots: commercial pilots, rescue pilots, military |
| used. This lets the pilot earn the needed | | | | pilots, etc. |
| experience to fly with proficiency safely. | | | | What types of airplane simulators are there? |
| How does flight simulation work? | | | | There are various types ranging from the very |
| With the use of some software, a realistic | | | | simple to the complex hardware design. The Navy |
| experience of flying is created. The physics | | | | uses a simple controller and computer monitor to |
| involved in flying an actual plane is replicated | | | | train their pilots. There are also closed simulators |
| accurately so training pilots would feel like they | | | | that gives off the feel of a closed off cockpit and |
| are actually sitting in a real plane's cockpit flying in | | | | can simulate a real plane's ability to sway and |
| all kinds of weather condition while using only | | | | pitch while flying. |
| controllers to navigate the mock skies. | | | | Flight simulation has been in use since its invention |
| What scenarios are included in this training? | | | | 1929. The very first device was a simple wooden |
| There are dozens actually including taking off and | | | | airplane designed to bob up and down to give that |
| landing, crash landing to save the passengers, | | | | feeling of flying through the air but not how to |
| navigating through different weather conditions, | | | | control the plane itself. This simulator was |
| how to deal with emergency situations, how to | | | | extensively used during WWII to train pilots. |
| avoid other planes on the airport, how to land on | | | | |