CURRENT REQUIREMENTS FOR CHARACTERISTICS OF FLIGHT SIMULATION TRAINING DEVICES TAKING INTO ACCOUNT THE EXPERIENCE OF INTERNATIONAL AVIATION ORGANIZATIONS

Abstract

The most important issue in the course of operating aircraft is flight safety. World experience of aircraft use shows that the human factor is the main cause of aviation accidents and crashes.
 Today, the leading countries in the aircraft manufacturing and use are paying close attention to improving and enhancing existing methods and means of training a pilot as a guarantor of flight safety. Aviation flight simulators play an exceptional role in the general process of training of aviation specialists, both civilian and military. Based on the tasks that can be formulated and practiced on the simulator, a wide variety of specialized training programs for crews on simulators of different configuration is created in the advanced world’s countries.
 In military aviation, flight simulators are of special value, as they allow you to simulate a real combat situation, which is very difficult to simulate in peacetime during training. Modern flight simulators are also used for research purposes, for example, to practice the actions of the crew in excess of operational limitations.
 Although the need for training is widely recognized, it carries the potential risk of instilling the wrong skills due to the inadequacy of aircraft models. To eliminate such a possibility in world practice, special standards have been developed that regulate the process of creating and certification tests of simulators.
 Simulators that are certified to the highest level of international standards have a very high degree of real flight simulation.