CHC Helicopter completes successful trial of virtual reality training for search and rescue crews - AirMed and Rescue Magazine

CHC Helicopter has announced it has successfully completed a proceedings collaboration with Priority 1 Air Rescue to present virtual world (VR) grooming for its hunt and rescue (SAR) method unit members.

The proceedings progressive winch operators from CHC’s Ireland operations.

After the occurrence of the trial, CHC volition springiness each caller winch operators Priority 1’s VR training, starting successful Ireland earlier introducing it to different markets worldwide.

VR simulations let CHC method unit members to hole and practise exigency procedures for a assortment of SAR events successful a safe, controlled and realistic environment, including those that couldn’t beryllium practised successful a unrecorded aircraft. Crews tin execute and redo winch operations procedures successful mock cabins and successful a scope of upwind conditions.

This method is the archetypal of its benignant accepted by EASA and IAA.

Dennis Groeneveld, Director Flight Standards astatine CHC, said: “Safety is astatine the bosom of CHC’s planetary operations. Our ngo is to support our radical and passengers harmless arsenic we question to distant and challenging destinations. We are delighted with however the proceedings performed and are excited to rotation the programme retired much widely.

“Our method crews indispensable beryllium decently prepared to execute exigency procedures and woody with challenging circumstances. This ground-breaking concern with Priority 1 allows our unit members to repeatedly signifier managing analyzable situations successful a realistic but harmless environment, ensuring they are afloat equipped to enactment rapidly and efficaciously successful existent satellite SAR events.”

Steve Barreau, Chief Operating Officer of Priority 1 Air Rescue France, added: “Our SAR grooming courses person been developed and designed with manufacture partners to equip them with the skills and abilities to execute optimally successful immoderate circumstances. Our Advanced Aircrew Mission Simulators (AAMS) are cleanable for this benignant of realistic Search and Rescue training, and peculiarly for events that can't beryllium practised successful reality. It has been fantastic to spot CHC Ireland crews making afloat usage of our facilities to further their skills and signifier analyzable procedures.”

CHC Helicopter celebrated its 75th day this year.