RAF pilots get ‘air conscious’. The new link trainer demonstrated.
One of the most important lessons which a new pilot entering the RAF has to undergo is taken in the new form of the ingenious “Link” trainer. The trainer is a dummy cockpit with all the usual instruments. It is free to pivot round its axis and can be tilted fore and aft. An innovation is that it is placed in a circular room with the walls painted to give the impression of sky and land, thus the pupil can go through all the movements of climbing, diving, banking, etc. For “blind” flying a hood is used to cover the pilot. Photo shows a demonstration of the new “Link” trainer in the South of England.