The Air Force's Virtual Reality Fighter Training Is Working Best for 5th-Gen Pilots
26 Mar 2021
Military.com | By Oriana Pawlyk
The Air Force is finding that experimental virtual reality fighter pilot training is working best for students who want to fly the service's most advanced stealth platforms -- though leaders are not exactly sure why.
Maj. Gen. Craig Wills, 19th Air Force commander within Air Education and Training Command, said that as the service collects feedback from units accepting graduates from the Pilot Training Next program, which uses virtual and augmented reality technology to train on fundamental aviation skills, it appears students who fly the F-22 Raptor and F-35 Joint Strike Fighters are leading in the field.
"For whatever reason, [students] tend to do better in F-35 and F-22-type courses comparatively [to] how they've done in the fourth-generation fighters," Wills said during a roundtable discussion with reporters Tuesday.
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