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 ...

Riley Fulk stopped her plane just before the runway and checked the weather one more time. The winds had started to kick up as she prepared the plane that afternoon. “320 - 10 gusting 18,” said the ...

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.

A team from the University of Zurich has trained an artificial intelligence system to fly a drone in a virtual environment full of obstacles before setting it loose in the real world, where it was ...