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PSA: I just logged my 500th hour on the Garmin G5000 sim and it made me question our training focus
Our shop pushes for speed on the actual boxes, which I get, but I hit that sim hour mark last week and realized my fault-finding on weird bus errors is way faster now. The lead tech said I was wasting time on 'video games' instead of real panels. But chasing that phantom voltage drop on a King Air last Thursday, I found it in under an hour because the sim scenario felt familiar. Are we putting too much weight on hands-on only and not enough on structured simulation time?
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hugo_grant11h ago
That's a solid point about the sims. Our old foreman had the same "video games" line until I ran the same engine fault drill twenty times in a row. Muscle memory on the real box is one thing, but knowing where to look when the failure isn't in the book is another. Fixed a wonky flap motor on a Citation because I'd seen the same weird power split in the sim. They're not a replacement for hands-on, but they're a good tool we don't use enough.
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