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An evaluation of some experimental data on the cost effectiveness of flight simulators

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

C. G. Durose
C. G. Durose*
Affiliation:
Research Branch, HQ, Royal Air Force Support Command
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Of all the factors taken into account when justifying the use of flight simulators cost is most important. As one airline administrator put the case in 1970, ‘If simulators did not save the airlines money they would not exist however valid the other reasons are, we would have no difficulty in convincing ourselves that training in the air was better in every way’. In their 1977 study of the cost effectiveness of flight simulators for military training Orlansky and String could find only 30 studies between 1950-1977 which attempted to measure training effectiveness in a controlled and effective manner. This paper directs attention to one particular method of measuring training effectiveness, namely, the Incremental Transfer Effectiveness Function (ITEF).

Type
Flight Simulation Training Techniques
Information
The Aeronautical Journal , Volume 86 , Issue 853 , March 1982 , pp. 90 - 93
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Aeronautical Society 1982 

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