Speaker 2
Okay, so that then leaves me a negative capacity. I find the same thing in front of a chalkboard. You know, I'm sitting up there, stuff I could do, you know, sitting in my sleep probably in front of a class of students and trying to scrape some stuff on a chalkboard. But it comes down to, you know, kind of different platforms of education that roughly align with Maslow's hierarchy of needs at some level. But I wonder what you guys think about the following proposal. If it's so effective to teach according to Maslow's needs, you know, and have physical safety, to have, you know, emotional safety and support, what if you could kind of, you know, do the opposite and see the, you know, so I've often thought in the simulator, we should have like an M80 go off. Like when you crash the simulator, like I do it for fun, you know, I'm going to fly underneath the Golden Gate Bridge and my F18 and Microsoft Flight Center. But if I really, you know, if there all of a sudden was a joy buzzer that went off on my butt, you know, maybe I'd have more visceral reaction. Hazard, what do you think the future of education inside the cockpit and outside the cockpit? What do you, what would you propose to bring it more into the modern? Quinton here runs
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Speaker 1
and that's what I worked on on my last assignment in active duty. So pilot training had not changed that much in 60 years. And with the F-35, it was a big opportunity. We had multiple communities coming together, A10, F22, F15. Blue Care Force Base is also an international base. We had Dutch, Danish, Norwegian, South Korean, everybody coming together and the F-35 is going to be the backbone of our air power for the next 50 years. And so we had a once in a career, maybe once in a lifetime opportunity to reimagine what pilot training was going to be like for flying the F-35. So we actually had a lot of those questions that started with what's our ultimate goal to build a F-35 wingman that can survive and thrive into the late 2030s. So that changed what threats were worrying about. And we used a lot of technology. So one thing that was interesting is we, as you said, have used simulators quite a bit over the years. These simulators now are incredible. They are 50 million dollar pieces of art. They are domes that are two stories high just for one simulator. And the cockpit's exactly the same as the F-35 and then it's on tank tracks and it rolls you into the middle of this dome. As one general said, this is a monument to human engineering. It's phenomenal. But, and they do have their place. But the problem is we didn't have anything that was less fidelity. So students would learn the way they always did memorized textbooks. They'd have a little bit of time in these simulators because they were so expensive we could only have a few of them. And then they go fly the F-35 which is $50,000 an hour. So one thing that we came up with was having a spectrum of devices. When a student is learning how to start the jet, they don't need this monument to human engineering. We gave them gaming laptops, something easy, something quick to get out there. We declassified it so that they could take it home with them, gave them a hote-ass, hands-on stick and throttle. We came up with other devices as well. Virtual reality devices that were a step up and we were flying with 360 cameras in the F-35. Security aspect was difficult even though it doesn't sound that difficult. And then they'd be able to play back. We do a lot of flame-out landings in the F-35. They'd be able to see exactly what that site picture was as opposed to the old way of doing it using a dry race pen on a sheet showing how to do it. So they could actually see the site picture of an experienced instructor doing it. And then we started layering in some other things like overlays of where the instructor was looking, how they were doing it. And now I've been working with some basic pilot training. They're testing some new things using AI to be able to find some key trends in what the student is doing. And it's not 100% solution, but it can find a few things that it thinks the student might be screwing up and then the instructor can look at that and say, oh yeah, he is screwing that up or can choose to discard it. So Air Force pilot training has really changed drastically in just the last five years or so.
Speaker 2
All right, what about training from your perspective, from Navy perspective perhaps?