A dose of virtual reality: Pilots enhance 316th OSS helicopter simulator for training needs - SoMdNews.com

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  • Dec 12, 2022
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Maj. Mitchell Clapp, 316th Operations Support Squadron adjunct manager of operations, monitors a grooming ngo connected the virtual-reality chopper formation simulator strategy astatine Joint Base Andrews. Clapp is the designer of the VR strategy that uses commercialized formation simulator bundle for UH-1N Huey grooming missions astatine the 1st Helicopter Squadron.

U.S. Air Force photograph by Senior Airman Tyrone Thomas

First Lt. Joseph Mull, a 1st Helicopter Squadron aviator astatine Joint Base Andrews, was flying 1 of 2 UH-1N Hueys successful enactment implicit the National Capital Region.

The script was a regular 30-minute ngo successful precocious October wherever Mull was shadowing the pb Huey taking disconnected from Andrews and navigating done a bid of checkpoints earlier returning to base. However, cipher was really successful the pb helicopter, and Mull ne'er near the crushed the full time.

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