When we applied the syllabus, he began practicing the lessons in advance on his home simulator. There were some challenges with the sim, not the least of which was that the virtual airplane was ...

Customers have asked for a 'virtual tiger' with checklists so the pilots can run through QRH/non-normal and normal checklists as many times as they want, to perfect responses and correct verbiage.

Flight training simulators today are better, cheaper and able to talk to students. But it will be some time before the software will be smart enough to take any significant workload from instructors.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. There's a fledgling aviator out there who will likely be getting an aviation video game this ...