Low cost helicopter training simulator a case study from the brazilian Military Police

Author

Mendes, Joice Barbosa ; Caponetto, Guilherme Henrique ; Lopes, Gabriel Paiva ; Ramos, Alexandre Carlos Brandão

Author_Institution

Dept. de Mat. e Comput., Univ. Fed. de Itajuba -UNIFEI, Itajuba, Brazil

fYear

2010

fDate

6-8 Sept. 2010

Firstpage

18

Lastpage

22

Abstract

This work describes a computer based training system to assist the crewmembers to learn the ground school of helicopter AS350-B2, manufactured from HELIBRAS, a brazilian helicopter company and widely used by the Armed Forces, Civil and Military Policies and beyond companies of executives transport and load transport. The training system consists of a 1:1 scale aircraft cabin simulator, a tutoring system software and a MS Flight Simulator interface. The project is in advanced phase of development and already it possess positive depositions of responsible interested parties for the sectors of training of the companies and institutions that operate the aircraft. A case study from brazilian Military Police is presented.

Keywords

aerospace simulation; computer based training; helicopters; military computing; AS350-B2 helicopter; Brazilian military police; HELIBRAS; MS Flight Simulator interface; aircraft cabin simulator; computer based training system; low cost helicopter training simulator; tutoring system software; Atmospheric modeling; Biological system modeling; Computational modeling; Helicopters; Military aircraft; Training; computer based training; hipermedia training system; pilot training; simulator;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Virtual Environments Human-Computer Interfaces and Measurement Systems (VECIMS), 2010 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Taranto

ISSN

1944-9429

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5904-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VECIMS.2010.5609337

Filename

5609337