Mary Preece

Back in the 1960s, the aviation industry introduced simulators to train pilots. The idea was to put trainees in a high tech simulation model of a cockpit, throw everything possible at them and see how they do. If they made mistakes, no one suffered, -- least of all passengers on an aircraft. Today, even with the horrors of 9/11 and the recent Air France crash in Toronto, air travel remains the safest mode of transportation.

The life-size mannequin is on a gurney, hooked up to an IV and an ICU monitor that