Prioritizing flight simulators of the Brazilian Air Force by the analytic hierarchy process and hypothesis tests

Abstract

The purpose of the research is to apply a method of decision support to priorize flight simulators of the Air Force Command in view of the country's budget constraints in the defense sector. The research was performed with the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP), associated with hypothesis tests to define the preference or equivalence relationships between the simulators. Data collection involved the support of 32 Air Force specialists with extensive experience in the chosen simulators.