Why Simulator-Based Training?
A better technical training model is: i. Basic generic knowledge yields 5% competence. ii. Specific generic knowledge yields an additional 15% competence. iii. Specific process knowledge yields an additional 20 % competence. iv. Hands-on practice, again and again, yields the remaining 60% of competence. This model gives us two interesting pieces of information: a. If you do not use hands-on practice, you cannot achieve more than 40% of the required competence level, no matter what you do. b. The last 60% of the competence is attained through hands-on training. You can chip away at this 60% by giving initial hands-on training. It may take your competence level from 40% to 50%. Only by going through the process many times with hands-on practice can a competence level of 100% be attained. Even that is not enough though. After that, you need to be able to go through periodic refresher training exercises. The numbers quoted here are of indicative quality only. They will vary to some degree,
