Re:The Army loves computer games. (Score 2)

(I know, offtopic, but...) The Air Force has looked into it, but you run into a problem with backwards skill transfer: people's primary skillz become how to play the video game, not fly the jet. You get a much better learning rate with cheezy games that use the same visual-spatial skills, but not the exact motions needed to fly. The best program available for it (at least a few years ago when I was working on this) is a program developed by the Israeli Air Force called Space Fortress that uses ASCII graphics. Players have to pilot a ship with their right hands, fire weapons with a trigger, use their left hands to choose weapons, remember an IFF code and hit it on the keyboard, and tap a steady rythem with their feet. After that, flying a jet in combat comes naturally.