Tue, Jul 12, 2011
I/ITSEC, the Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and
Education Conference, is held late each calendar year. Among the
exhibitors at the 2010 event in Orlando was Fain Simulation
Systems, a division of Fain Models which entered the simulation
industry to produce high quality, reliable, well-supported
simulated hardware for commercial and military flight simulators at
a fair price.
The company claims the ability and knowledge to develop, design,
and create almost any simulated ejection seat or cockpit hardware
with the look, function, and feel of the real thing.
ANN CEO and Editor-in-Chief Jim Campbell spoke with Matthew
Sibley, Systems Integrator for Fain Models and Simulation, about a
high-fidelity cockpit simulator for the F-16 which gives a
realistic feel against body pressure points in maneuvers such as
stalls, high-G turns and takeoff and landing.
In various simulated maneuvers during this interview, Sibley's
voice clearly demonstrates the realism of the shaking which
accompanies the buffeting before a stall. In explaining the point
of this level of fidelity, he explains, "The purpose... is to give
muscle memory indication to the pilot that's training.
"There's a lot of issues with training pilots where they
practice maneuvers at a high-G, assuming they'll be able to pull
off those maneuvers in real life. It's not that they physically
can't, but it may not be ideal to pull 9G all the time. So this
gives you a quick and direct way of knowing, 'hey, this is where my
real-world limits are when I'm doing this.'"
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