I'm not exactly sure what I do for fun when I'm playing games would translate to the real world. Maybe, perhaps, but I'm still reluctant to get in a Dodge Viper in real life when I can barely control one in the Gran Turismo. However, apparently the British think videogame players might actually make good Apache helicopter pilots.

From the article:

In what some will call "genius" but I label "stupid", the British Army are looking to gamers to jump behind the controls of their "new" Apache attack helicopters.

The skill in flying the aircraft is to absorb large amounts of information from different sources without becoming flustered. The new generation of computer-game playing youngsters glued to their PlayStations, Xboxes and Game Boys already have some of those skills.

Read the full article over at kotaku.com