Another training session is coming up soon. In fact, - in the next week. Oh, time flies! Feel a bit stressed, as always. Uh, ‘flyable time’ - it is a different stance.
But as for simulators, and the history of the aviation ’simulated training’ - it is quite an educative topic. My first exposure to the ’simulated flight’ occurred at the Aqtyubinsk Flight College.
We had a Yak-18T simulator, for starters, and all ‘coursants’ were supposed to undergo an introductory course on it. There was no visual system of any kind on this machine. By modern standard, in terms of ’simulator classification’ it was more or less of what you would call today a ‘procedural trainer‘. Technically, during the first few sessions we were shown ‘what to push‘, and ‘where to see results of your pushing‘. And, in general: ‘what to do in order to achieve an objective - managing a steady flight‘ 
But first you had to figure out - ‘what was the flight itself’ - when flown on this kind of contraption for ’simulating the reality’.
No doubt, it was a challenging task, - to make a ’successful’ simulated flight for the first time in your life
The second type of simulator we had in the college was way more sophisticated, representing the Yak-40, a three-engine ‘regional jet’, our ‘graduation plane’ too. It had a visual system based on broadcasting the image of ‘airport environment model’ by cameras that were hovering over this model, following a ‘flight path’ flown by crew. TV screens were placed in front of pilots. I guess, it was a common technical solution for many types of simulators used at that time.
(to be continued..)
P.S. Love it, or hate it - its time to ‘buckle down’ for reviewing books!
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