Running head: AVIATION SAFETY TRAINING Aviation Safety Training Student’s Name Institutional Affiliation Date 1 AVIATION SAFETY TRAINING 2 Training and Simulation… Are they Linked? Describe the meaning of fidelity, training transfer, and negative training transfer Fidelity is the extent to which the simulator’s resemblance and action similar to the actual aircraft is closely attached to training transfer. Training transfer is a process whereby acquired abilities, skills, or knowledge become applicable to the real situation. Negative training transfer entails the dampening effect, whereby solving or addressing an initial problem complicates the process of addressing later problems (Myers III, Starr, and Mullins, 2018). With respect to flight simulators, examine fidelity and whether it changes over time or when learning progresses. Fidelity in flight simulators remains a significant debate, whereby high fidelity enhances self-efficacy implying a considerable change over time. Today, simulations portray the actual aircraft state such that reduced simulator capability hampers confidence related to skill performance in the future (Salas and Maurino, 2010). Simulator operators, behavioral scientists, and designers support the need to design simulators with maximum fidelity to offer notable training transfer. However, the accompanying higher costs may be infeasible for some organizations. Simulator fidelity studies remain inconclusive and even contradictory, owing to ass ...
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