Flight Simulator for Students
Title
Flight Simulator for Students
Subject
Motlow State Community College
Description
Newspaper image of Motlow student, Doug McCafferty and Motlow's Aerospace instructor, Ben Carr Jr. using new flight simulator equipment.
Creator
Steve Graham
Date
October 25, 1972
Rights
No restrictions. Open for research.
Format
.jpeg
Language
English
Type
Newspaper Clipping
Transcription
Motlow College is putting its aerospace technology students in the pilot’s seat right in the classroom.
The college now has computerized flight simulator for classroom use. It is a duplicate of an actual airplane instrument panel, using computers and cassette tapes to simulate situations pilots experience in flight.
The simulator gives aerospace students students flight situations that are identical to a cross-country instrument flight, complete with the background sounds pilots actually experience when flying an aircraft, according to Ben W Carr Jr., aerospace technology instructor at the community college.
He said the simulator will be available for use by aerospace students free of charge for classroom work, and also will be available to area residents who want to practice for instrument proficiency.
Persons wishing to use the new simulator may make arrangements by calling Mr. Carr at 455-8511, extension 238. He said a course in instrument flight, using the simulator, will be offered next month at Motlow.
The flight simulator, an ATC-510 model is designed specifically to provide training for flight with sole reference to instruments, Mr. Carr said.
He said it teaches proper scanning procedures utilizing specially prepared flight assignments, gives students an opportunity to learn and improve aircraft radio phraseology, helps eliminate microphone hesitancy among pilots, and develops the pilot’s ability to instinctively react in the proper manner to unexpected flight situations.
Mr. Carr said the unit is programmed with the cassette tapes and has both a speaker and headphone so the student can work individually. He said the simulator has a built-in warning device if the student reacts incorrectly to a given situation.
“The flight simulator enables individuals to develop abilities and competence necessary for safer flight.,” Mr. Carr said, “and hopefully will help to eliminate the most common statistical cause of accidents-continued flights by pilots into weather and other conditions that force a pilot to use instruments beyond his ability to handle them.”
He said the simulator offers students practice in heading or direction, altitude control, and air speed control among others. It permits the pilot to fly vectoral approaches to various runway localizers as if the classroom pilots were about to make an actual landing.
Other areas of practice that the simulator can be used for are proper fuel management techniques: holding patterns: flying back course approaches if the wind direction is going against the aircraft as it nears an airport; time approaches from the outer to middle marker (radio and beacon fixes use by pilots in landing); and flight under partial instrument panel conditions if a mechanism on the panel should fail.
In short, the simulator gives aviation students all the conditions they would experience in flight without their ever having to leave the ground.
New flight simulator- Doug McCafferty of Manchester, seated, an aerospace technology student at Motlow College, is introduced to the college’s new flight simulator by Ben W. Carr Jr., aerospace instructor at Motlow. -Photo by Steve Graham.
The college now has computerized flight simulator for classroom use. It is a duplicate of an actual airplane instrument panel, using computers and cassette tapes to simulate situations pilots experience in flight.
The simulator gives aerospace students students flight situations that are identical to a cross-country instrument flight, complete with the background sounds pilots actually experience when flying an aircraft, according to Ben W Carr Jr., aerospace technology instructor at the community college.
He said the simulator will be available for use by aerospace students free of charge for classroom work, and also will be available to area residents who want to practice for instrument proficiency.
Persons wishing to use the new simulator may make arrangements by calling Mr. Carr at 455-8511, extension 238. He said a course in instrument flight, using the simulator, will be offered next month at Motlow.
The flight simulator, an ATC-510 model is designed specifically to provide training for flight with sole reference to instruments, Mr. Carr said.
He said it teaches proper scanning procedures utilizing specially prepared flight assignments, gives students an opportunity to learn and improve aircraft radio phraseology, helps eliminate microphone hesitancy among pilots, and develops the pilot’s ability to instinctively react in the proper manner to unexpected flight situations.
Mr. Carr said the unit is programmed with the cassette tapes and has both a speaker and headphone so the student can work individually. He said the simulator has a built-in warning device if the student reacts incorrectly to a given situation.
“The flight simulator enables individuals to develop abilities and competence necessary for safer flight.,” Mr. Carr said, “and hopefully will help to eliminate the most common statistical cause of accidents-continued flights by pilots into weather and other conditions that force a pilot to use instruments beyond his ability to handle them.”
He said the simulator offers students practice in heading or direction, altitude control, and air speed control among others. It permits the pilot to fly vectoral approaches to various runway localizers as if the classroom pilots were about to make an actual landing.
Other areas of practice that the simulator can be used for are proper fuel management techniques: holding patterns: flying back course approaches if the wind direction is going against the aircraft as it nears an airport; time approaches from the outer to middle marker (radio and beacon fixes use by pilots in landing); and flight under partial instrument panel conditions if a mechanism on the panel should fail.
In short, the simulator gives aviation students all the conditions they would experience in flight without their ever having to leave the ground.
New flight simulator- Doug McCafferty of Manchester, seated, an aerospace technology student at Motlow College, is introduced to the college’s new flight simulator by Ben W. Carr Jr., aerospace instructor at Motlow. -Photo by Steve Graham.
Citation
Steve Graham, “Flight Simulator for Students,” Motlow State Community College Archives, accessed May 9, 2024, https://msccarchives.omeka.net/items/show/54.
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