Leonardo: Guardia di Finanza opens Air-Naval Operations Simulation Centre in Italy - EDR Magazine

• The archetypal and one-of-a-kind grooming centre successful Europe headquartered astatine Pratica di Mari Air Base (Rome) is built connected beardown synergies betwixt Guardia di Finanza’s operational expertise and Leonardo’s technological and work excellence

• A azygous virtual world environment, which integrates craft and ngo systems, delivering effectual and harmless unit grooming for interoperability successful analyzable scenarios

Rome, 02/02/2023 – Guardia di Finanza (Italy’s Police Force, with wide capableness successful economical and fiscal matters, is the lone maritime Police Force successful Italy) opened its Air-Naval Operations Simulation Centre today, during an authoritative ceremonial successful the beingness of organization and Leonardo representatives. The caller centre was developed by the institution starting successful 2020. Based connected customer’s requirements it leverages the astir precocious and innovative technologies successful the simulation field, and is aimed astatine grooming Guardia di Finanza’s crews carrying retired air-naval operations. 

The caller centre, a one-of-a-kind successful Europe, integrates precocious web simulation systems successful a azygous environment. The simulators afloat reflector Leonardo’s helicopters and airplanes, which person precocious been acquired by Guardia di Finanza and utilized for a scope of operational roles. In summation to the company’s onboard ngo systems utilized for surveillance and identification, among others. These adhd to a script simulator, developed by Leonardo, which is capable to virtually make the situation wherever platforms and unit collaborate connected a azygous mission, a vas instrumentality sheet simulator which besides introduces ships successful a maritime situation – developed successful collaboration with Cetena (Fincantieri) – and a ground-based bid centre that coordinates the operations.

The AW169/AW139 helicopters and P-72B craft all-new ‘mini motion’ simulators, designated Enhanced Training Device (ETD e-Motion), reproduce performance, avionics and cockpits with precocious fidelity, and are capable to present an capable carnal feedback to the crews, acknowledgment to the level integrated actuators. Pilot grooming is complemented by rear unit grooming for those utilizing the Leonardo ATOS (Airborne Tactical Observation and Surveillance) ngo strategy for the AW139 and P-72B arsenic good arsenic compartment hoist operations acknowledgment to a highly immersive virtual world for hunt and rescue missions. 

Thanks to these simulation capabilities, Guardia di Finanza’s unit volition beryllium trained successful an situation capable to bespeak with utmost realism the interoperability typically required successful the existent and aboriginal multidomain scenarios, precisely those wherever Guardia di Finanza performs its missions specified arsenic security, surveillance, patrol, and rescue.

The centre is an EASA-Approved Training Organization and obtained an ENAC (Italy’s Civil Aviation Authority) Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training Certificate. The centre is located astatine the hangar ‘L’ astatine the Air Base, adapted with Leonardo’s enactment and is afloat integrated into the Leonardo helicopter Training Academy’s planetary network. The Leonardo Training Academy coordinated the initiative, allowing the operation of the highest planetary modular for formation and ngo grooming delivered by the assorted concern areas of the company. 

This inaugural is the effect of Guardia di Finanza’s beardown enactment for grooming simulation usage and the applicable Leonardo’s concern and technological capabilities. These integrate fixed- and rotary-wing, electronics and sensor, grooming and ‘digital twin’ development/use expertise. Guardia di Finanza becomes a benchmark for different nationalist and planetary players with a beardown absorption connected interoperability successful analyzable scenarios. Leonardo confirms its committedness to the improvement and proviso of technological precocious grooming solutions for information organisations crossed the world. 

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