page_title: Trainer aircraft
section_title: Navigation trainers
hierarchical_section_title: Trainer aircraft / Phases / Navigation trainers
caption_attribution_description: English: A Kyushu K11W Shiragiku of Tokushima Gunkoukuutai Kai (Naval Air Base of Tokushima) in flight. 日本語: 徳島航空隊所属の機上作業練習機白菊。
context_page_description: A trainer is a class of aircraft designed specifically to facilitate flight training of pilots and aircrews. The use of a dedicated trainer aircraft with additional safety features—such as tandem flight controls, forgiving flight characteristics and a simplified cockpit arrangement—allows pilots-in-training to safely advance their real-time piloting, navigation and warfighting skills without the danger of overextending their abilities alone in a fully featured aircraft.
  Civilian pilots are normally trained in a light aircraft, with two or more seats to allow for a student and instructor. The aircraft may be modified to withstand the flight conditions imposed by training flights.
context_section_description: A minority of military training aircraft, such as the Beechcraft 18. Vickers Varsity, Hawker Siddeley Dominie and Boeing T-43 were developed from transport designs to train navigators and other rear crews operators. As these navigational trainees are normally learning how to navigate using instruments, they can be seated at consoles within the aircraft cabin and do not require a direct view of the landscape over which the aircraft is flying. The operators of airborne weapons or radar-related systems can be similarly trained, either in training aircraft or in an operational aircraft during training flights.
caption: Kyushu K11W, a WW2 bombing, navigation, and radio communications trainer
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