Subject: Simulator vs Trainer
From: "PosterBoy"
Date: 11/20/03 11:33 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: zdjvb.446295$pl3.42468@pd7tw3no


"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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ubject: Simulator vs Trainer
From: "Brian Colwell"
Date: 11/20/03 8:58 PM Pacific Standard Time
Message-id: cYgvb.445352$6C4.239776@pd7tw1no


"ArtKramr" wrote in message
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I recently posted an account of a B-26 mounted in a hanger used for
training
purposes. I called it a simulator. But as I think back I begin to
realise
that
we never called it a simulator at that time. I think we called it "The
trainer
in the hanger". And it makes sense since we called the Link Trainer a
trainer,
not a simulator. I think the term simulater is a far more modern term
that
was
not generally used in 1943. This is an addendum to that original post.

Regards,

Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer

*Link Trainer* Now that brings back memories !!!!

BMC



I spent about 10 hours in Links. Not all that enjoyable.

On the other hand....
I learned to love the link and the linkstress at Bainbridge AB.
Dot Hinchcliffe..lovely, bright and understanding...was the operator who
made flying the jerky, noisy Link a thrill-filled ride a couple of times a
week before and during the T-6 transition. And provided all and sundry with
their first case of vertigo.
(Incidentally, Dot was a married lady, so out of bounds for this young
airman!)

Cheers.


My use of the Link was purely voluntary. I would go down to the Link hanger
and bum stick time from the Sgt. in charge as long as the trainer was not in
use at the time. The only reason I did that was, as the war went on, my pilot
would give me some dual stick time in non combat situations. I got stick time
in B-26's. C-47.s, Cubs, Stinsons and even a FeisslerStorch which I could
eventualy fly alone. I iust thought that some Link time might give me better
proficiency. I didn't like it. I just did it. BTW the most flying fun I ever
had was shooting touch and goes off the cloud tops in the Marauder. Now that
was a kick.

Regards,

Arthur
Arthur Kramer
344th BG 494th BS
England, France, Belgium, Holland, Germany
Visit my WW II B-26 website at:
http://www.coastcomp.com/artkramer