Effective home flight simulators require specific, realistic hardware to reinforce good piloting habits, emphasizing quality primary controls (yoke/joystick), a separate throttle quadrant, and ...

But the real puzzle isn’t whether de-skilling exists—it plainly does—but rather what kind of thing it is. Are all forms of de-skilling corrosive? Or are there kinds that we can live with, that might ...

Boeing's new Virtual Airplane Procedures Trainer (VAPT) uses Microsoft Flight Simulator and Microsoft Azure to train new and ...

This video showcases a series of unexpected and often hilarious moments where flight simulator AI goes completely off course.

The kneeboard is sort of a lap desk a pilot uses in flight. It doesn’t have to be huge. They can be as simple as a 5-by-7 ...

Spanning 33,729 sq ft, this $28-million, two-story structure supports mission planning, flight execution and aircraft sustainment for the U.S. Navy. A 20,000-sq-ft flight simulator facility is ...

IFR flying in simulators used to feel lifeless - no feedback, no control, no challenge. But affordable force feedback hardware is changing everything, bringing realism and tension back into every ...

While online check-ins are designed to avoid long queues at the airport, many travellers have faced chaos while queuing at passport control this summer. And now, as the European Union's new biometric ...

The fuel control switches of the Air India flight that crashed in Ahmedabad last month shifted or “transitioned” to the CUTOFF position three seconds after the aircraft became airborne, according to ...

Women who use Depo-Provera face a higher risk of developing a slow-growing brain tumor, according to a new study that comes as the contraceptive’s maker, Pfizer, faces hundreds of lawsuits claiming ...

Many holidaymakers prefer a peaceful flight next to respectful passengers who don't cause too much bother. Reading, watching a film or listening to a podcast might be acceptable activities to do ...