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Our Training Sucks

Competition breeds innovation and lower prices. I think I read that a few decades ago in a business course. Sounds about right.

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Key Takeaways:

  • Current pilot training methods are outdated, expensive, and lack the innovation seen in other educational fields, despite the potential for technology to improve efficiency.
  • The article advocates for a new training model that extensively utilizes interactive, computer-based flight simulators as primary instructors to teach and drill students on tasks.
  • This simulator-centric approach aims to significantly reduce costly in-aircraft training hours, thereby lowering the financial barrier to entry for aspiring pilots, though more widespread entrepreneurial competition is needed to fully implement this vision.
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Competition breeds innovation and lower prices. I think I read that a few decades ago in a business course. Sounds about right.

But the competition in pilot training hasn’t achieved that. They try to compete on quality and perhaps on price, but there’s little innovation. Of course, there is some excellent training available, but take away the fancy glass displays and plastic airplanes and we train today the same way our grandfathers might have.

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