Simulate your way to flying

Bhubaneswar: Training on a simulator is no more confined to pilots of well-heeled airlines or defence forces.
For, cadets of the State NCC Air Wing have also joined the league of big and mighty to derive benefit out of this modern day technology.
Sqn. Ldr Satpathy said the cost of flying, which comes to about Rs 1000 per hour in a microlite aircraft, would become zero in the simulator.
The simulator, built at a cost of Rs 2.5 lakh, works on Microsoft-X operating system. It has been integrated into the real time instrumentation and control columns of the ‘Zen air microlite’ at the local level. The technology has been designed in a fashion to produce actual imagery and environment of Bhubaneswar airfield and surroundings.
Sqn. Ldr. Satpathy said the virtual sortie can also be recorded for post-flight analysis. The aim of the air wing is to mould cadets into potential pilots of Indian Air Force and civil aviation sector. With its introduction, many a dream would touch the sky. “If the State Government asks, we can also train non-NCC candidates,” he said.
12/09/07 Newindpress