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Aviation History
1949
1949 - 1016.PDF
June 2nd, 1949 FLIGHT 647 A FAS Link trainer as used by K.L.M. for route-training captains and Performing the duties of an airport control officer, the instructor controls first officers of multi-engined aircraft. several machines in a truly realistic manner. Link to La Gnardia AIRLINE pilots flying into La Guardia Field, NewYork, are required to pass a special course of instruc-" tion on traffic-control procedures for that airport. The courses are conducted at the airport and are attended by pilots of lines operating into it. K.L.M. pilots are exempt, for they are automatically cleared for La Guardia on passing through the company's Link-trainer course at Schiphol. The Dutch airline has always attached great im- portance to synthetic initial training and constant prac- tice, and it has developed a training establishment in which are simulated an astonishing number of the pitfalls known to exist on the routes. Holding patterns and let-down Inside the cockpit of the FAS Link, trimming tabs and other refinements not included on the smaller trainers can be seen. procedures for every airport in the K.L.M. network arepractised, but it is for La Guardia that the most compli- cated and exacting requirements must be learned; theDutch pilots in particular experience certain difficulties arising from the use of colloquialisms. The K.L.M. Linksection is no mere instrument-flight trainer but one in which all known difficulties are studied and introduced synthetic-ally so that they may be accepted as normal occurrences on the routes. The Link F.45 is equipped with a flyingpanel as on a large transport aircraft, with trimmers, undercarriage and flap selectors which when operated causea change in attitude, while characteristic icing effects are reproduced, rough engine-running being indicated audiblyand on the instruments. Superimposed on those built-in synthetic hazards is all the radio hubbub and the distrac-tion which occurs around busy international airports. Mr. Martin Henry, the chief Link instructor, and his assistantMr. E. G. Walton (both are English) have, with their team of instructors, perfected the idiomatic and vocal peculiari-ties of typical control officers and airline pilots of other nations. They have, in fact, succeeded so wel that cap-tains seated in the Link trainer are easily convinced that they are (say) stacked over La Guardia behind aircraftof several nationalities whose pilots are talking on R/T to an American with a high-speed technique. The crab plots the track of an airliner under airfield control. Beams a, holding patterns can be seen on the chart.
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