21st Congress of International Council of the Aeronautical Sciences, Melbourne, Australia, 13-18 September, 1998
Paper ICAS-98-6.3.3

APPLICATION OF A FLIGHT SIMULATOR FOR SELECTION OF PILOT-CANDIDATES

Skibniewski F., Mazurek K., Klukowski K., Kossowski J.
Polish Air Force Institute of Aviation Medicine, Poland

Keywords: flight simulators, selection of pilots

More and more frequent utilisation of flight simulators has recently become a world tendency in military and civil aviation, to. They are mainly used for basic pilots' training, to maintain flying habits and for training special tasks (e.g. combat missions), how to behave in emergencies and for selection of pilot -candidates. Flight simulator enables training of motor, perception and decisive skills under conditions simulating a real situation. Thanks to the application of flight simulators, we can save 50% of training time, compared with the same conditions when simulators are not used. The costs of simulator training constitute about 8% of aircraft training. The costs of flight simulator exploitation and service, depending on the type and kind of trained skills are paid of within the period of 7 months -2 years.

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