Flight-simulator fidelity in reproducing aircraft stall characteristics may have to be improved, if the US Federal Aviation Administration accepts National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommendations emerging from its investigation of December 1996 fatal crash on an Airborne Express McDonnell Douglas DC-8-63 in Virginia.
The aircraft crashed when the pilot failed to recover correctly from a stall during a post-modification test flight.
Although the NTSB blames the pilot, it notes that the stick-shaker stall-warning system was inoperative. The Safety Board also cites the "inadequate fidelity" of Airborne's Level B simulator.
Source: Flight International
