I'm a Training Development Manager for E-3 Mission Crew members. Over the
past few years, we've been training under the same philosophy that a simulator
can never give you the same performance as an actual flight. I'm a huge
proponet of sim being our most valuable tool in training crew members to do
their jobs at a huge cost saving of flying on the jet. My dilema is that most
people outside the pilot world disagree that sim can take the place of flying
training. I know that most airlines are very heavy on sim training, and even
the Air Force has gone that way with the C-17 program. My question is does
anyone know of any documentation or studies that have been done to prove that
performance in the sim is comparative to that in the aircraft.