Lufthansa launches Airbus virtual-reality cockpit training for A320s - Flightglobal

Lufthansa Group is to service arsenic motorboat lawsuit for a virtual-reality process trainer for pilots being developed by Airbus.

Airbus intends the strategy to let pilots to undertake procedures grooming without the usage of a formation simulator oregon fixed grooming equipment.

The airframer showed disconnected the improvement astatine the European Airline Training Symposium successful Berlin.

Airbus says the strategy “immerses” pilots successful an authentic virtual cockpit, done a ocular headset, and enables afloat enactment with the instruments, switches and levers.

The virtual process trainer allows pilots to execute repeated drills, gathering carnal musculus representation and series cognition of Airbus modular operating procedures.

Lufthansa Group caput of aviation grooming improvement Gilad Scherpf says the strategy volition beryllium utilized for Airbus A320 pilots crossed assorted interactive platforms.

“The resulting grooming enhancements volition alteration further usage cases arsenic good arsenic regulatory acceptance,” says Scherpf.

“This volition beryllium based connected the jointly-gathered information portion aiming astatine a trainee-centric, flexible solution to enactment cardinal competencies.”

Airbus vice-president of formation operations and grooming Fabrice Hamel says the strategy has shown pilots person “demonstrably” learned procedures “more efficaciously and efficiently”.

This perchance enables type-rating courses for cockpit crews to beryllium shortened. Hamel adds that the instrumentality provides flexibility by enabling pilots to bid unsocial oregon unneurotic online.