Why Pilots Need More Than Simulator Training

Credit: CAE
You’ve just successfully completed another intensive multi-day course of simulator training. Once again, you’ve been through it all, just like six to 12 months earlier. Engine failures and fires, hydraulic and brake malfunctions, wind shears on short final, comm and nav radio breakdowns, blown tires...
Fred George

Fred formerly was senior editor and chief pilot with Business & Commercial Aviation and Aviation Week's chief aircraft evaluation pilot. He has flown left seat in virtually every turbine-powered business jet produced in the past three decades.

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