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LUFTHANSA AVIATION TRAINING (LAT) TESTET NEU ENTWICKELTE VR-LÖSUNG VON AIRBUS FÜR DAS PILOTEN-TRAINING

Airbus Virtual Reality (VR) Procedure Training

LAT als Launching Partner

AIRBUS VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) PROCEDURE TRAINING

Als Launching Partner testet LAT gemeinsam mit Lufthansa Group Airlines eine neu entwickelte VR-Lösung von Airbus für das Piloten-Training – den „Virtual Procedure Trainer“. Dieser ermöglicht Pilot:innen per VR-Headset und Controller, individuell oder im Team in ein virtuelles Cockpit mit realitätsnaher Rundumsicht einzutauchen („Immersion“). So können diese auf innovative Weise Standardverfahren trainieren und sich effektiv auf spätere Phasen im Trainingsprogramm vorbereiten. Abhängig von der weiteren Hardware-Entwicklung kann dies perspektivisch flexibel von zu Hause aus möglich sein. Die Software ist sowohl mit VR-Equipment als auch ergänzend per iPad App nutzbar.

Die ersten beiden VR-Setups – zunächst für das Flugzeugmuster A320, anschließend auch für A330 und A350 – wurden bereits erfolgreich in Frankfurt und Wien installiert. Im Rahmen einer Testphase zur Untersuchung von Nutzerakzeptanz sowie Potenzial von sowohl Software als auch Hardware prüfen wir, inwieweit die VR-Lösung in die LH Group Trainingsumgebung (Type Ratings) integriert werden kann. LAT, die LH Group Airlines und Airbus arbeiten eng zusammen, um die Software weiterzuentwickeln. Ziel ist die Integration in die Musterschulung für alle Pilot:innen der unterstützten Flugzeugtypen.

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https://www.lufthansa-aviation-training.com/de/airbus-vr-procedure-training

23. November 2023 0 comment

Knowledge Research

Airbus is developing a mixed reality tool for aircraft cabin definition

Airbus is developing a mixed reality tool for aircraft interior customisation – a technology that it says will be an industry-first. The idea behind this new collaboration tool is that it will enable live and remote interactions between Airbus and its customers, with an immersive virtual world transforming the aircraft cabin definition process.

Holograms in a 3D environment will enable users to visualise various cabin equipment choices and try out different aircraft interior configurations, materials and colours. A key factor is that all users collaborating on an Airbus cabin project, wherever they are in the world, can communicate easily and in real time.

The system, currently named ‘Airbus immersive remote collaboration’, is planned for industrialisation on the A320 family by 2025. Airbus says that mixed-reality industrial applications will then be extended to other commercial aircraft and helicopter programmes.

This concept supports Airbus’s ambition to deploy a fully digital end-to-end approach for its industrial operations to improve aircraft design quality, support production ramp-up and increase customer satisfaction.

Catherine Jestin, executive vice president of digital and information management at Airbus, said of the project: “With this new solution, Airbus is opening a new era where mixed reality will help shape the future of aircraft cabin definition. We are leveraging the power of data and most advanced technologies to create engaging, interactive and realistic virtual experiences for our customers, accessible at any time, from anywhere in the world. This shows how we foster digital innovation at Airbus for all our products and services.”

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6. Juli 2023 0 comment

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Airbus brings cockpit to you with new Virtual Reality Flight Trainer

Airbus latest Global Services Forecast predicts a need for 550,000 new pilots to be trained worldwide over the next 20 years and we have been investigating new ways to make flight training more efficient, more flexible, and more attractive to a generation of digital natives.

Virtual Reality (VR) stood out as the most appropriate technology to meet all these objectives.

A Virtual Cockpit

Airbus’ VR flight training solution was designed by Captain Shane Carroll, an A320-family pilot and instructor, with his team of professional software developers from the consumer entertainment industry. It will provide portable training with a ‘study & practice tool’ for pilots to train at their home base…or remotely, and is capable of complementing the full flight simulator sessions that are conducted in flight training centres.

Imagine training whenever and wherever you want!

„The innovative Airbus VR Flight Trainer will first be used in the Airbus training centres from the second half of 2020, with the aim to make it an integral part of the Airbus type rating curriculum“

A virtual cockpit, a headset, and a pair of hand controllers!

Pilots will be immersed in a simulated virtual cockpit where they can practise their procedures together until perfection. They could do so alone, or as a crew; sharing the same physical room, or remotely together online. Similarly, they could train with or without a human instructor guiding their lesson.

The virtual package consists of a PC, a VR headset, and a pair of hand controllers.

The software will run on consumer, off-the-shelf equipment, including the VR; no proprietary hardware is needed.

The first iteration is based on the popular Airbus A320 cockpit as there are 9,000 flying globally today.

The innovative “Airbus VR Flight Trainer” will first be used in the Airbus training centres from the second half of 2020, with the aim to make it an integral part of the Airbus type rating curriculum.

In the future, it is also envisaged to use it as a tool to train cadets in the Airbus Flight Academy and the growing network of flight partner schools that Airbus is progressively setting-up.

Pilots will be immersed in an simulated virtual cockpit where they can practise their procedures together until perfection. They could do so alone, or as a crew; sharing the same physical room, or remotely together online. Similarly, they could train with or without a human instructor guiding their lesson.

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Foto:The pilot trainee will interact with a training partner and with the Airbus instructor or a virtual instructor, being located in the same room or anywhere else.

https://services.airbus.com/en/newsroom/stories/2019/12/airbus-brings-cockpit-to-you-with-new-virtual-reality-flight-trainer.html

16. Dezember 2019 0 comment