Like other Northern Virginia companies, NLX had trouble attracting employees to keep up with its growth, though its success in raising its corporate profile has helped attract workers. It still has an office supporting the Navy facility in Solomons, Md., where the company was founded. The simulators themselves help keep workers interested, Syme says. And thanks to a complicated motion system underneath the simulators, the training pilot will have the sensation of actually flying a plane, Syme says. Once you work in the simulation business you have a hard time going anywhere else because there is a tangible product.
Programmers tend to follow the cool stuff, and simulators are cool things.
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