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Virtual Cockpit Simulation for Pilot Training

Summary 
For some of today's simulations very expensive, heavy, 
and large equipment is needed. Examples are driving, 
shipping, and flight simulators with huge and expensive 
visual and motion systems. 
In order to reduce cost, immersive 'Virtual Simulation' 
becomes very attractive. Head Mounted Displays 
(HMD) or CAVEs (Computer Animated Virtual 
Environments), Datagloves, and cheap 'SeatingBucks' 
arc used to generate a stereoscopic virtual environment 
(V E) for the trainee. 
IVS enhances training quality and quantity for 
classroom-teaching and Computer Based Training 
(CBT). It allows to visualize and animate teaching- 
material in a more natural stereoscopic environment. 
Data of before unseen complexity can be revealed and 
complex models easily visualized. For the first time, the 
trainee himself can interact with a Data-Glove in the 
environment and collect cockpit experience long before 
his maiden flight. CAVEs and Immersive Projection 
Screens enable "group training" to collect personal and 
shared experience while further enhancing training 
quality. 
With increasing maturity of VR-gcar IVS will allow to 
generate new training metaphors for immersive night 
simulation. This might include the enhancement or 
partial replacement of conventional flight simulators by 
IVS. 
Introduction 
High fidelity pilot training simulators are designed as 
training tools for one specific aircraft type. They demand 
authentic instrumentation and system layout for the 
simulated aircraft type including huge outside vision 
systems and cumbersome motion systems. Because of 
these reasons, traditional simulators are very expensive, 
inflexible, and difficult to reconfigure. The high cost 
tactor in buying and maintaining them causes air camers 
to purchase either just a single simulator for every 
aircraft type they own or to buy expensive training hours 
from other companies.