It’d be easy to point to any number of the computer games that are widely used by pilots and say “Oh that one is the best because it can do this and that…”, but the truth is, none of the video games and home computer simulators are as good as the “real thing”, the full size, cockpit based simulators that use motion sensors, articulation, and four-dimensional engineering to bring the experience of flight, crashing to earth. Which begs the question, what is the best flight simulator that a pilot can train in? In order to train the best pilots, the military and civilian aviation companies need to use the best flight simulators, the machines that are capable of taking pilots to the ragged edge and returning them safely at a moment’s notice.
Less than eighty years later, flight simulators have evolved to a point where, when a pilot is locked inside and immersed in an emergency scenario that tests the abilities to the absolute limit and far beyond, it’s increasingly difficult to separate a simulator from the real thing. It was a fortuitous decision, as less than a decade later the United States entered the Second World War and started using the simulators in earnest to train the ever-growing number of would-be pilots who were eager to serve.
The first flight simulator, the Link Trainer, was invented by Edward Link in the closing moments of the nineteen twenties, but it wasn’t until nineteen thirty-four when the USAAF finally decided to buy, and use, six of Link’s trainer’s that flight simulators started to help pilots to hone their aviation skills.
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