The design of simulator based research can be an intimidating task for even an experienced researcher. We present some of the lessons learned from a complex simulator-based research study requiring sophisticated flight scenarios with realistic environmental conditions that was designed and conducted by a large group of researchers distributed across multiple sites. We offer readers both suggestions for approach to design as well as solutions to some of the problems we encountered.
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