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A couple weeks ago I wrote about using simulators. You can see the whole article here:

Flight Simulators: A Great Way to Learn and Experience Flying.

But two things have happened since I wrote that post.

First, I had my recurrent simulator training at FlightSafety in Salt Lake City and second, a friend of mine had an interview with Colgan airlines.

First, my simulator story.

If you remember, back in January 2009, I had a Line-Oriented Flight Training simulator session or LOFT. Incredibly useful and dare I say, fun? I learned a lot and still apply what I learned that day when I fly. The most important thing I learned that day was when you have an emergency, do not delay declaring an emergency. Once you’ve declared an emergency, everyone is focused on you and helping you and then you can focus on the task of getting the airplane on the ground—safely!

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CRJ-200 Simulator at FlightSafety

There are many people who want to learn to fly a helicopter or an airplane and experience the feeling of being up in the air. However, most people won’t do it because it is so unfamiliar to them and besides, where do you start? If you’ve read a few of my other posts, I have talked about Discovery Flights often. Discovery Flights are a great way to get into the air and learn about flying before jumping into it full-force. Discovery flights are not very expensive either.

Click here to learn more about “Discovery Flights”

But today we are talking about the benefit of flight simulators if you are not ready to actually fly.

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