Cirrus Aircraft's flight training department has dipped a toe in the augmented reality and virtual reality realm to see if it can make flight training better and more efficient. VP of Training Rob Haig spoke with AVweb's Russ Niles about the intitiative at NBAA-BACE in Las Vegas.
This is the future, folks. It’s far more convenient for busy customers, and reduces the number of instructors required. This assumes, of course, that customers actually fulfill their end of the bargain and use the software as intended.
A VR headset is probably the only way I will ever get the chance to fly an SF50. Unless of course, I win the lottery. 
It would seem to make sense to offload to the simulation realm as much as possible of the flight training not directly requiring actual physical flight. Flight in an actual aircraft represents a pretty expensive classroom.
For training that is for getting to the airlines this could work. For those who want to learn to fly as a hobby and for fun, I fail to see how this will draw more into flying. Maybe for training for those emergencies that can happen that would be dangerous to do in the airplane, but for normal flight training part of the fun is flying the airplane, not flying a computer.
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