RAF flight simulator instructor selection and training

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I propose to outline the Royal Air Force approach to flight simulator instructor training and indicate our intention regarding the pattern of pre-employment training of future simulator instructors. As you know the instructor task had its origins in the Link Trainer and perhaps there grew into being a ‘Link’ mentality which saw the ‘Box’ as suitable employment for aged or unfit aircrew who, through no fault of their own, had to be put out to pasture. This approach was accepted largely because simulators were regarded mainly as procedural trainers requiring only routine supervision and little originality in training methods.