Vrgineers donates a Virtual Reality Pilot Trainer to Ukraine

Vrgineers, a leading international provider of virtual and mixed reality pilot training systems for professional and military customers, is donating its Portable Trainer to the Ukrainian Air Force. The reconfigurable virtual pilot trainer will help secure airspace and train tactics during mission exercises.

Based on the results of experimental research on the use of VR and simulators in pilot training, Vrgineers believes that their technologies will accelerate and improve the training of fighter and helicopter pilots-while also reducing the associated costs of transitioning from Eastern platforms to modern Western platforms.

For decades, there has been a push to modernise current training methods, due in part to the cost of modifying and maintaining large dome simulators, the inability to keep training equipment up to date. Virtual and mixed reality technologies can greatly improve the process of transitioning pilots from eastern platforms.

"Vrgineers is able to deliver advanced pilot training solutions that provide highly effective training techniques at significantly lower costs compared to traditional dome simulators," says Marek Polčák, CEO of Vrgineers.

Free modernisation for Ukrainian Air Force

The need for modernisation is even greater in countries and air forces dependent on Eastern training methods and equipment, such as Ukraine. Russian manufacturers have stopped supplying spare parts, resulting in several rescue and transport aircraft across Europe being grounded due to EASA regulations. Vrgineers has therefore decided to make its Portable Trainer available to the Ukrainian Air Force.

Vrgineer's trainer simulators are being developed in close collaboration with the U.S. Airforce and U.S. Navy through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) programme to accelerate pilot training, speed up the process and increase pilot readiness. Such trainers offer incredible opportunities to provide affordable simulators with realistic synthetic training environments that can be used anywhere. They can be linked together for group training, used individually for mission and tactics training or full procedural training.

Source: presseportal