Just a quick question for the community, and (as you can see) since this my first post, I'm hoping I'm posting this in the correct forum:

Question: Does anybody know when many of the major carriers began switching over to using solely Full Flight Simulators in their training/upgrade syllabus?

Background: I'm working on a paper for my Master's (probably not the first of these you've seen) and it has to do with the effectiveness of FFS's as sole training tools since their inception. I must emphasize that this is not a survey. I am merely having approximately 0.0% luck searching "history of full flight simulators" or "first full flight simulator" by using the all-powerful-Google, and figured I'd turn to more human means of finding some answers. Thanks for all the help.