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1944 Trainer
Trainer
Manufactured by Link
This is the World War II version of the Link Trainer. The purpose of this
equipment was to teach the student pilot to fly his airplane without any
outside reference. The student would enter the trainer, close the hatch,
close the door and turn on the lights. All he could see was the instrument
panel.
At the desk sat the operator. It was his job to put the Link Trainer into
unusual flight attitudes and let the student recover to level flight using
only the instruments. The trainer could also fly "patterns" such as approach
and departure patterns, ground controlled approaches, etc.
Following many hours of training in the Link, the student was permitted to fly
a real airplane on instruments. They found that actual flying on instruments
was much easier than flying the Link Trainer.
The Link Trainer has evolved into the highly sophisticated flight simulators
used to train pilots to fly aircraft with complex systems.
Specifications
- Role/Category: Trainer
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