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The Variable-Stability Inflight Simulator Test Aircraft, or VISTA, F-16 surpassed 2,000 hours of flight time during a USAF Test Pilot School, or TPS, sortie at Edwards AFB, California, on 10 September. The school's chief pilot, Bill Gray, was at the controls as safety pilot, and student Maj. Chun Hao Lee was the evaluation pilot on the milestone mission. VISTA is a highly modified flight research and flight test training platform used to train the TPS students how to test modern flight controls and avionics systems. The aircraft, which can be programmed to replicate the handling characteristics of nearly any aircraft, was transferred to the Test Pilot School in October 2000.
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