AKPilot
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Well, whether or not you like video games I can firmly tell you a couple things about them.
1) The Navy uses MS Flight Sim to augment their formal Undegraduate Flying Training (UFT).
2) The Air Force will have a mix of 55% manned, 45% unmanned aircraft in the upcoming future. UAVs are literally some high tech videos, with an expensive product at the end.
Why risk a manned variant deep behind enemy lines when I can have a pilot, sitting at a console hundreds of miles away. Oh, and we he needs a potty break, or wants a snack, there's a second pilot there ready to relieve him. (UAV pilots in the AF must have a 4-year degree and an equivalent FAA commercial cert.)
3) The products we're developing in R&D use the premise that the "kids" have been in "training" for years at home with their joysticks in front of a monitor.
Look at the KC-X tanker programs. Both parties took the boomer out of the back and placed them behind the console with a remote vision system.
So to answer the question, yes video games do have a purpose if used appropriately.
1) The Navy uses MS Flight Sim to augment their formal Undegraduate Flying Training (UFT).
2) The Air Force will have a mix of 55% manned, 45% unmanned aircraft in the upcoming future. UAVs are literally some high tech videos, with an expensive product at the end.
Why risk a manned variant deep behind enemy lines when I can have a pilot, sitting at a console hundreds of miles away. Oh, and we he needs a potty break, or wants a snack, there's a second pilot there ready to relieve him. (UAV pilots in the AF must have a 4-year degree and an equivalent FAA commercial cert.)
3) The products we're developing in R&D use the premise that the "kids" have been in "training" for years at home with their joysticks in front of a monitor.
Look at the KC-X tanker programs. Both parties took the boomer out of the back and placed them behind the console with a remote vision system.
So to answer the question, yes video games do have a purpose if used appropriately.