Flight Training Simulator - It May Possibly Save Your Life Some Day

Published: 26th May 2010
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At one point many of us have seen those movie clips or those TV skits in which the pilot of a 747 jumbo jet gets knocked unconscious while in the middle of a flight.

Alas there's no one in the cockpit who can operate the airplane. So the stewardesses interrogate the passengers to see if anyone on board who has any amount of piloting experience, who might be able to assume control of the airplane, so that Air Traffic Control can talk them through flying the airplane to come down for a safe landing.

Why does it always seem like the one guy who has any amount of piloting experience, always has to be the one whose sole experience operating aircraft is the couple of hours spent messing with a flight training simulator game for his PC at home?

The above situation may seem like the stuff that dramas are made of, but there is a certain element of ironic truth to it. Is this situation really all that fictional as it made to seem?

The fact of the matter is that navigating an aircraft in a flight training simulator is a realistic experience. The computer programming required in creating today's flight training simulator software has advanced to the point where it has literally effaced the lines between simulation and reality.


So by becoming proficient at navigating an aircraft in a flight training simulator, you will have acquired enough familiarity to shorten the gap between the simulator and its real-life counterpart.

And, in the hopefully unlikely event that such an emergency as described above were to happen, you would be poised to take control over that plane safely down to the ground, using nothing more than the experience you gained by operating the simulator.

So all of that playing with a flight training simulator might save your life someday!

With regard to all of the progress in computer software technology that we have available at our disposal these days, in the modern era, one of the greatest resources that every pilot, irregardless of whether he or she is a beginner pilot or a veteran pilot, must have available to him or her, is a good flight simulator.

A flight simulator can help to narrow the gap during those unforeseen periods of indeterminate downtime in between flights.


It could even help you to build on your skills, help you maintain proficiency, and could even allow you to earn some additional practice in those areas in which you could use some improvement.

Flight simulators can help you become a better pilot.

They can even help you save money, as well as time, on extra training or unnecessarily having to repeat performing the same practice maneuvers over and over again.

The good news is that, flight simulation software technology is so sophisticated, that aviating a simulator is practically every bit as realistic as aviating the real thing. The instrument panel is identical. The control inputs are identical. The geographic "map" built into the simulation is based on real life cartographic data points. The way the aircraft behaves to various internal (weight and balance, fuel, aircraft performance) and external (weather phenomena, air temperature) forces is intended to simulate real life scenarios.

For a lot of people, a flight simulator is simply a really high-tech video game. And on many levels, it can be enjoyed in that capacity. After all, you never have to concern yourself about crashing the aircraft in a simulator!

But for many others, a flight simulator is a professional learning tool, and for many professional pilots, it is an integral foundation of their aviation career.

Download and start flying your very own Cessna 172 simulator today.


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