VRpilot announces partnerships with Alaska Airlines & Aviomar - Auganix

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November 15, 2022 – VRpilot, a Danish institution that designs, develops and sells virtual world (VR) grooming applications for usage by ATOs, airlines and aerial forces, has precocious announced that large US hose Alaska Airlines has strengthened its committedness to usage virtual world VR for aviator training, expanding its fig of VR headsets with aviator grooming bundle from VRpilot.

After implementing an archetypal transportation of the caller grooming devices successful its aviator grooming programs successful July this year, Alaska Airlines is present scaling its fig of VR headsets disposable for aviator grooming starting aboriginal 2023, according to VRpilot.

“Virtual world is simply a invaluable plus successful our grooming instrumentality portfolio,” said Janet Ann, Alaska Airlines Manager of Instructional Systems Design. “VRpilot has customized their bundle and interface to acceptable Alaska Airlines’ unsocial grooming procedures. With a VR grooming program, our caller prosecute and fleet modulation pilots present person unlimited clip to familiarize themselves with the 737 formation platform and make musculus representation for their aviator flows earlier they measurement into simulator training.”

VRpilot’s VR-based formation platform process grooming platform, VRflow, enables students to go acquainted with procedures, cockpit layout and craft systems connected their ain earlier mounting ft successful a simulator. The VRflow level uses virtual world to assistance hole students truthful that they are acceptable to absorption connected multi-crew practice grooming from the get-go, without spending teacher and simulator resources connected method skills training, specified arsenic cockpit layout and process knowledge.

Alaska Airlines uses VRflow for its type-rating courses connected the Boeing 737-800SFP connected Pico Neo 3 Pro headsets, according to VRpilot. Alaska Airlines’ mentation of VRflow is besides tailored to the airline’s ain circumstantial procedures and cockpit layout.

Commenting connected the announcement, Daniel Maass, VRpilot Partner, stated: “We’re thrilled to spot Alaska Airlines perpetrate truthful powerfully to the usage of virtual world successful aviator training. It’s a grounds to the worth of VR exertion erstwhile it is designed, implemented and utilized the close way. We are arrogant to enactment Alaska Airlines’ operation.”

In summation to Alaska Airlines, VRpilot besides announced that Aviomar, a starring European formation academy, has selected VRpilot’s solution to present VR process grooming tools for Aviomar’s Ryanair mentored APS MCC people connected the Boeing 737NG.

Captain Yari Franciosa, Chief Instructor – MCC, Aviomar, said: “We are excited to denote our concern with VRpilot. Combined with our precocious prime grooming standards, VRflow exertion volition assistance america optimize our APS MCC courses, starring to a faster and much close learning for our students.”

Maass added: “Aviomar’s determination to instrumentality VRflow for process grooming is simply a grounds to the worth and maturity of our product. We are arrogant to enactment Aviomar’s cognition with the adjacent procreation of process grooming tools.”

For much accusation connected VRpilot and its VRflow level for process grooming for Air Traffic Organizations, airlines and aerial forces, delight sojourn the company’s website.

Image credit: VRpilot / Alaska Airlines