British trainer aircraft equipped with ATARS augmented reality systems
BAE and Red 6 have announced a new collaboration to integrate advanced tactical augmented reality systems into the Hawk platform. This will allow pilots to see virtual opponents and threats during training flights.
Both companies made the announcement at the National Training and Simulation Association's annual industry conference in Orlando.
Red Hawk has been flying in the UK for almost 50 years. We've really moved from analog to digital booths, and it's the technology that Red 6 offers that allows us to see the most of what this platform is capable of. And that's why we partner with Red 6.
said Lucy Walton, head of aviation training at BAE Systems.
BAE trains over 450 pilots a year. Time, cost and productivity are the most important metrics in personnel training. Thanks to the possibility of augmented reality on the training platform aviation training time and costs are reduced. Accordingly, the system allows you to train more pilots with the same amount of time and money.
Augmented reality (ATARS) can reproduce friendly and enemy aircraft and even incoming missiles.
said Red 6 CEO Daniel Thompson, who flew the Raptor in the United Kingdom and later gained F-22 experience with the US Air Force.
Thompson also shared a memory that when he came to the United States and flew the F-22, he saw that there were the same problems getting enough training. According to him, the constraints were the same: lack of aircraft, lack of pilots, lack of instructors and lack of funds.
According to experts, the use of virtual reality in real flight was a logical decision, which the market has not yet fully achieved. Augmented reality, as noted, is still difficult to provide a level of brightness and resolution with a wide enough field of view to make it work as efficiently as possible. However, the system is being improved.
Thus, in the future, augmented reality can reduce the large opportunity costs and loss of resources in the training of pilots, because it will be able to customize training for each person.
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