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various aircraft all using a computer that fits in your living room is a thriving reality for pilots learning to fly today.
The FAA has caught on and is evaluating new simulation technologies as we speak. Cliff Johnson, a senior research and development engineer with the FAA, has taken on this challenge. Located at the FAA’s William J. Hughes Technical Center (Tech Center) in Atlantic City, New Jersey, Cliff and his team are evaluating multiple new simulation technologies. Their focus is to redefine the FAA’s path to determine flight training simulation credit through the lens of new training technology. Recently, the Tech Center invited pilots from industry with varied levels of experience to participate in a series of tests and evaluations using many of the new technology devices offered today.
The FAA has openly stated it is missing the mark by evaluating simulation as solely a maneuver-centric standard. The ability to engage a pilot’s use of aeronautical decision-making (ADM) and allow those decisions to play out in
a simulated world follows the accident data, and may truly get to the root cause of human-factor issues.
One can only be hopeful that the FAA continues
this path, creating an
environment where flight training and checking both benefit from the many technologies available today and in the future.
In a flight training industry where knowledge, skills, and abilities to support decision-making through simulation come first, and the stick-and-rudder skills that come only from actual aircraft are secondary, we will see a safer flight training industry for us all.
Randy Rowles has been an FAA pilot examiner for 20 years for all helicopter certificates and ratings. He holds an FAA Gold Seal Flight Instructor Certificate, NAFI Master Flight Instructor designation, and was the 2013 recipient of the HAI Flight Instructor of the Year Award. Rowles is currently the owner of the Helicopter Institute. He can be reached at randyrowlesdpe@
gmail.com
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