Estimating the Operational Training Needs of Air Force Fighter Squadrons

Bigelow, James H.; Taylor, William W.; Moore, Craig; Thomas, Brent

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“…Following work done under the RAND Corporation's Project Air Force (Taylor, Moore and Roll, 2000), CORA developed a dynamic simulation model of the mentoring process (Latchman, Corbett and Hunter, 2001) followed by a more complete model of the pilot occupation (Latchman and Hunter, 2002). The RAND Corporation has continued to study pilot absorption issues concentrating on the fighter community (Taylor at el., 2002;Bigelow et al, 2003a;Bigelow et al, 2003b;Marken et al, 2007;Taylor, Bigelow and Ausink, 2009). At the same time, CORA continued to evolve its model to simulate the whole RCAF pilot occupation from recruitment to retirement and to include all fleets employed.…”

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PARSim, a Simulation Model of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Pilot Occupation - An Assessment of the Pilot Occupation Sustainability under High Student Production and Reduced Flying Rates

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2015

Proceedings of the International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems

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Training personnel to operate extremely complex and expensive equipment requires a large monetary investment and takes lengthy periods of time. It goes without saying that careful planning is of the outmost importance. Such is the case for military pilots. The Pilot Production, Absorption, Retention Simulation (PARSim) model that was developed by the Centre for Operational Research and Analysis (CORA) simulates the flow of pilots from recruitment, through training, onto the operational training units and into the various operational fleets, accounting for attrition, instructor pilots and staff requirements. A key feature of the model is that it simulates the acquisition of experience, dynamically adjusting the experience acquisition rate in response to the existing experience level on the squadrons and the availability of resources. The model is a tool that can be used to perform what-if analysis quickly and easily. This paper describes the simulation model and reports on a study where the impact of high production combined with reduced budgets is analysed.

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confidence: 99%

PARSim, a Simulation Model of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Pilot Occupation - An Assessment of the Pilot Occupation Sustainability under High Student Production and Reduced Flying Rates

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Estimating the Operational Training Needs of Air Force Fighter Squadrons

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PARSim, a Simulation Model of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Pilot Occupation - An Assessment of the Pilot Occupation Sustainability under High Student Production and Reduced Flying Rates

PARSim, a Simulation Model of the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) Pilot Occupation - An Assessment of the Pilot Occupation Sustainability under High Student Production and Reduced Flying Rates

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