FEATURE: VR for aviation training - Business Jet Interiors

Virtual world (VR) applications tin beryllium utilized for grooming successful the aviation sector, but what needs to beryllium done to optimise the technology? According to Konradas Dulka, merchandise manager astatine Sensus Aero, a new-gen bundle solution for the aviation industry, VR applications tin beryllium some casual and troublesome.

“VR exertion challenges travel successful galore antithetic forms – immoderate technical, portion others prevarication successful the quality factor,” said Dulka. “So, portion these technologies are invaluable and let america to amended grooming processes and prosecute trainees astatine the aforesaid time, we person to enactment vigilant erstwhile addressing these challenges.”

One of the challenges is optimisation. “At Sensus Aero, we person experimented with a fig of antithetic VR engines, which each person chiseled advantages,” said Dulka. “However, careless of what motor you choose, you request to walk a batch of clip connected optimisations. If you basal your strategy connected lone realistic graphics, large dependable effects, bully process step-by-step guidance, your merchandise volition not automatically beryllium great. In my mind, the planetary optimisations really specify the product, allowing for it to beryllium utilized for a longer clip adjacent by those who person not tried thing similar that before.”

While VR grooming involves simulating a real-life procedure, not everything needs to beryllium covered. “We are concentrating lone connected the procedural steps to marque the grooming quicker and much concentrated,” said Dulka. “This means that each measurement of VR simulation instauration indispensable beryllium considered precise cautiously – what bash we privation to beryllium a portion of simulation and what is not that important. Our probe has shown that during the simulation if determination are parts of grooming erstwhile wrong VR simulation you are moving without doing anything, for illustration riding a autobus arsenic a passenger, fractional of the radical acquisition caput spinning. Therefore, present we springiness the enactment for the teacher to disable the portion and determination to the adjacent stage. In different words, the VR personalisation indispensable beryllium present, arsenic nary 1 is the same.”

Onboarding tin beryllium different challenge. “We usually urge starting the grooming with easier procedures, conscionable to get utilized to the controls and the feeling itself,” said Dulka. “Unlike ERP systems oregon mobile apps, VR gives you the feeling of immersion – the idiosyncratic starts to judge helium is wrong the simulation and present we tin assistance them make the close habits. If onboarding has been done successful the close way, Sensus Aero VR grooming mode tin easy usher users done the steps – adjacent if the process is rather complicated. And that’s it! After the onboarding users tin beryllium self-sufficient and execute grooming by themselves, which means a little load connected the trainer’s schedule.”

An illustration of a peculiarly hard aviation process Sensus Aero has adapted to VR is into-aircraft fuelling.

“The complexity of a immense fig of steps, and replication of fuelling panels, trucks and sequences was genuinely a challenge,” said Dulka. “You cannot replicate ‘more oregon less’ and anticipation that users volition judge it – it indispensable beryllium precisely replicated graphically, ensuring that power enactment is arsenic realistic arsenic possible. Additionally, you person to tune everything according to the concern itself, arsenic the institution mightiness beryllium utilizing antithetic trucks wherever controls differ, clients’ craft fleet tin dwell of galore antithetic craft types and truthful on.”

“Our proposal is to ore connected the astir communal mistakes and commencement from there,” Dulka continued. “Additionally, dissimilar real-life training, with Sensus Aero into-plane fuelling VR we tin simulate the overpressure oregon occurrence hazard, which successful real-life signifier it is conscionable not imaginable to do. It is ever bully to know, that your unit is prepared for each situations, not lone the ‘positive’ sequence. We judge that with VR grooming integration we tin heighten the information of aviation and minimise the hazard of the quality factor.”

Sensus Aero is simply a household subordinate of Avia Solutions Group.