VAI T-76 Simulator

The Virtual Applications Incorporated T-76 Talon II Simulator or T-76 VAIS for short, was a simulator developed as a training tool for the in  by Virtual Applications Incorporated to help train new pilots before they were put into the cockpit of the real aircraft. The simulator was praised by trainees and instructors alike for well preparing the former for flights in the Talon II, allowing instruction with the aircraft to focus on more advanced topics such as combat maneuvers, rather than basic skills like handling, takeoff/landing, emergency procedures etc., which would be learned in the simulator.

The T-76 VAIS became ubiquitous at training bases across controlled space, and continued to be used until the retirement of much of the Talon II fleet in  with the end of the. However, the sims would continue to be used by the Boundary Republic until, who used them for almost all pilot training, with most trainees never handling any other aircraft than light civilian ones until their first assignment, resulting in an unskilled pilot corps as compared to their counterparts.