For decades we have been told that each generation of aircraft has become safer and safer, though we have not been able to reach the ‘final frontier’ and eliminate air accidents. Capt. Billett draws on his experience as a trainer to explore the relationship between pilot performance and the reliance on training technology and questions whether, in our drive to enhance and improve the technologies we employ, we lost our battle to control pilot behaviour.

Capt. Steve Billett FRAeS gave the RAeS Flight Simulation Group’s Ray Jones Memorial Lecture on 26 September 2012. The lecture was chaired by Mark Dransfield FRAeS and the podcast was edited by Eur Ing Mike Stanberry FRAeS.