Originally Posted by
250 or point 65
I'm not doubting the training is real world scenarios, but am I the only one who thinks that experience beyond how to do a stall and crosswind landing is important?
It is trained, just like firefighters. They train for nasty stuff in controlled environmemts to give them experience for a similiar real world event.
The Air Force's whole premise of Red Flag was to give the crews their first 10 REAL WORLD experiences (as real world as training can get at least) so that the first time they found themselves in combat they felt like they had been there before. It is an attempt at training and gaining experience and it seems to work pretty well.
I agree that there isn't a substitute for experience. I guess the problem in the 'make a buck' world is where you get that training.
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