1. In aviation as in any dynamic environment many skills can effectively be taught and practiced in a simulated environment. Simulation may be considered advantageous through its ability to provide effective training in a more controlled environment than the real world. Additionally simulation is generally more cost effective and often less dangerous than the real situation it models. For military forces, life in combat can depend on the quality of training; often simulation affords the only practical method of combat experience.

2. This essay will look at the use of simulation at unit level in the aviation environment. It will discuss the benefits in experience provided to squadron members, as well as looking at the economic advantages afforded by the use of simulators, and finally it will discuss simulation disadvantages.

3. “The US Army expects helicopter flight simulators to sharpen combat skills but cut costs” . Simulators in use with the US Army allow attack helicopter crews to fire weapons at targets designated by notional or actual airborne and ground scouts, and using a satellite link they ar

27. Naturally aviators would rather spend their time in the ‘real thing’ than in a simulator. However, in today’s world of complex aircraft and tightening budgets most aviators would recognise that the simulator provides them with the best, and in some cases the only way of gaining the valuable experience required to make them competent in the use of their weapon system.

18. The value of experience is of vital importance in any aviation environment. It is far better for a pilot to practice a procedure on even the most basic of flight or procedural simulator than to lose the skill due to lack of practice or exposure. Given the restrictions placed on some Army aircraft with regard flight in instrument conditions, it is conceivable that in the future the only way the pilots of these types may be able to practice flight in instrument conditions will be through the use of flight simulators.

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