Realism and immersion is achieved via a multi dimensional sensory delivery system; surround sound audio system provides the recreation of the aircraft and environment sounds, while a tactile feedback system provides the physical vibration feedback felt during flight.
Visuals are provided by an immersive triple 55 inch wraparound display giving the user a wraparound visual environment.
Finally full motion of the entire simulator is achieved using the D-BOX haptic technology for accurate recreation of movement with up to 2gs of force over 3 types of intelligent movement, subtle pitch, roll and heave, providing Kinaesthetic Cues to build operators psychomotor reflexes, stimulating operator muscle memory, developing reflexes and preparing them for real life flight.
Based around our fully upgradable, modular system, the Vesaro Flight is the worlds first and only truly modular flight simulator.
X Plane 11 Add-on pack including the following third party content Helicopters and Scenes:
X-Plane 11 Add-On Third Party Content
- Messerschmitt-Blkow-Blohm Bo 105 DBS-4
- SA 315B Lama
- Magni M-16 and M-22 Gyrocopters
- Civilian UH-1
- CH47-D Chinook
- Robinson R44 Raven II
- Bell 412
- SA 341B and SA 342J Gazelle
- FA Tensor 600X Project - VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot'
- Schweizer S300CBi XP11
- Dynali H3 Project - VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot'
- Robinson R66 Turbine Project
- The VSKYLABS 'Test-Pilot': Cicare-8 Project
- Bell 407 XP11
- Eurocopter AS350 B3 Plus
- DF 206 Ranger III
- Robinson R22 Beta II
- Robinson R22 XP11
- S-92 Sikorsky XP11
- Sikorsky UH-60 Blackhawk v2
- Sikorsky SH-3 Sea King
- 222B
- 222UT
- 500E
- MD-902 Explorer
- K-1200 K-MAX XP11
- Nimbus UH-1
- UV-4 eVTOL UAV - NH Racer - Manned Racing Multicopter
- NH Acro - Manned Acrobatic Multicopter
- MBB/Kawasaki BK-117
- Guimbal Cabri G2 Project v2
- Test-Pilot: Mini-500
SCENES
- ROTOR CREEK Home of Helicopter Flight Training
- X-Oil Rigs
- Airport Dallas/Fort Worth International
- John F Kennedy International Airport
Microsoft Flight Simulator Helicopter Pack
HPG H145 - Early Access Civilian, Luxury & Military Variant Bundle
Cutting edge Vesaro Technology Combined with FAA approved training software X-Plane.
X-Plane contains subsonic and supersonic flight dynamics, allowing users to predict the flight characteristics of the slowest aircraft or the fastest.
X-Plane also includes more than 30 aircraft included by default, spanning the aviation industry and its history. Aircraft included range from the Bell 206 Jet Ranger and Cessna 172 to the Space Shuttle and the B-2 Bomber. Additionally, more than 1,400 additional aircraft models can be installed as optional extras.
Included Aircraft
Cirrus Vision SF50 | North American X15 |
Beechcraft Baron 58 | Lancair Evolution |
Cessna 172SP | McDonnell Douglas KC10 Extender |
Piaggo P.180 Avanti | Boeing 747400 and 747100 |
Stinson L5 Sentinel | Robinson R22 Beta Helicopter |
ASK21 glider | Boeing B52G Stratofortress |
Beechcraft King Air C90B | Bombardier Canadair CL415 |
F22 Raptor | Viggen JA37 |
Lockheed SR71 Blackbird | F4 Phantom II |
Boeing AV8B Harrier II | Bell 206 helicopter |
Lockheed C130 Hercules | Space Shuttle Orbiter |
Great Planes PT60 RC plane | Thunder Tiger Raptor 30 v2 RC helicopter |
A Sample of some of the aircraft available as add-ons (Available on request for an additional fee)
Beechcraft Bonanza | Boeing 727/737/747/787 |
Mooney M20J 201 | Piper PA16 Clipper |
de Havilland DH106 Comet | Pitts "Mountain Dew S2C |
Sikorsky S76 | StratoCloud Ram-Air |
P51D Mustang | Piper Twin Comanche PA30 |
Beechcraft King Air 350 | Cessna 195 |
Cessna C150 | Bell 212, 222 |
Douglas A4B Skyhawk | Ilyushin IL76 |
Fiat CR.42 Falco | Paris Jet III |
Bell 407 | Peregrine F222 Firenze |
Beechcraft Staggerwing | Curtis P6 Hawk |
Ford Tri-motor | Cessna 120 |
Gulfstream Turbo Commander 690B | Cessna 206 |
Cessna Citation | Falcon 20 and 2000 |
Hawker Sea Harrier FRS1 | Airbus A320/A340/A380 |
The full XPlane scenery package covers the Earth in stunning resolution from 74 north to 60 south latitude. Users can land at any of over 33,000 airports or test their mettle on aircraft carriers, oil rigs, frigates (which pitch and roll with the waves), or helipads atop buildings. They can also realistically model the flight of remote-controlled model aircraft, perform an air-launch in an X15 or Space Ship One from the mother ship, fly re-entries into Earths atmosphere in the Space Shuttle, fly with friends over the Internet or a LAN, drop water on forest fires, or shoot approaches to aircraft carriers at night in stormy weather and rough water conditions in a damaged F4. The situations that can be simulated are unbelievably diverse!
Weather in XPlane is variable from clear skies and high visibility to thunderstorms with controllable wind, wind shear, turbulence, and micro bursts. Rain, snow, and clouds are available for an instrument flying challenge, and thermals are available for the gliders. Actual weather conditions can be downloaded from the Internet, allowing users to fly in the weather that really exists at their current location!
XPlane has detailed failure modelling, with multitudes of systems that can either be failed manually at an instructors command, or randomly when users least expect it! Users can fail instruments, engines, flight controls, control cables, antennae, landing gear, or any of dozens of other systems at any moment. They can also have a friend or flight instructor (locally or via the Internet, working from an Instructors Operating Station) fail components on the aircraft without the pilots knowledge. The instructor can alter the time of day, weather conditions, and failure status of hundreds of aircraft systems and components. Additionally, the instructor can relocate the aircraft to a location of his or her choice at any time.
Aircraft models are also extremely flexible, allowing users to easily create paint jobs, sounds, and instrument panels to modify any airplane you choose. Custom airplane or helicopter designs can even be created and flown using XPlane and the included Plane Maker software.
XPlane is used by world-leading defence contractors, air forces, aircraft manufacturers, and even space agencies for applications ranging from flight training to concept design and flight testing.
For example, XPlane has been used in crash investigations to depict the view pilots experienced moments before a mid-air collision, or to graphically present to juries and judges the forces that impact an aircraft in flight. Scaled Composites used XPlane to visualize Space Ship Ones flights to the edge of the atmosphere in their pilot training simulator. Kalitta has used XPlane to train their pilots to fly freight 747s in the middle of the night. Northwest and Japan Airlines use XPlane for flight review and training. Cessna uses XPlane to train new customers in the intricacies of the Garmin G1000. Dave Rose has used XPlane to optimize airplanes for his many wins at Reno. NASA has used XƒÆ’†â€™ƒâ€ ¢€â„¢ƒÆ’¢€Å¡ƒâ€š‚¢€ƒÆ’†â€™ƒâ€š‚¢€ƒÆ’¢€¹ƒâ€¦"Plane to test the re-entry of gliders into the Martian atmosphere, and the list goes on. These customers serve as perhaps the most significant endorsement of the incredible capabilities of this simulator.
Furthermore, XPlane has received certification from the FAA for use in logging hours towards flight experience and ratings. This experience can provide credit towards a private pilot license, recurrence training, hours towards instrument training, and even hours towards an Airline Transport Certificates that good.
Engineers at Velocity, NASA, Scaled Composites, and Carter Aviation have all used XPlane to do design, evaluation, and simulated flight testing. The National Test pilot school uses XPlane to train pilots in non-conventional aircraft and flight-control systems.
Introducing the Vesaro C.O.T.S training system for Home Enthusiast, Military and Commercial training. The C.O.T.S (Commercial Of The Shelf) approach is revolutionizing training within organisations and professional training schools around the world by providing off the shelf solutions using customizable modular components and integrating this technology with FAA approved simulation software. With this approach we are able to provide simulation training systems at a fraction of the cost od common solutions. This forward thinking approach, one that is in tune with the current world economic climate, will allow you to install multiple training systems within budget resulting in simultaneous training of multiple trainees.
Students can gain a high level of the necessary skills required before progressing onto live flight or time on custom one off specialised simulators. This negates the need to waste precious simulator hours on your custom simulators where many of the hours can be clocked up on a C.O.T.S based systems.
Benefits of Motion for Simulation Training
Although most industries today recognize the training benefits of simulation, it can sometimes be hard to articulate why motion is essential.
Psychomotor Reflex Development
Benjamin Bloom's 1972 "Learning Domains Taxonomy has applications for motion based training and simulation learning equipment. The following elements contribute to the psycho-motor reflex development and stem from a simulator's motion cue.
- Perception - Using sensory cues to guide motor activities.
- Response - Learning a complex skill through imitation trial and error; following instructions.
- Mechanism - Learned responses become a habit, movements are performed with confidence and proficiency.
- Complex Overt Response - performing complex movement patterns.
- Adaptation - Movements can be modified or adapted to fit special situations.
Multimodal Training
Education and training theorists all agree that education needs to proceed from a complete set of modalities in order to ensure an effective transfer of the training curriculum from trainer to trainee.
In an efficient training simulator, the core simulation solution is built out and communicated to the trainee in four modes:
Visualization : The trainee is able to observe the action happening within the simulation and can orient himself/herself accordingly.
Sound : Stereo or surround audio cues provide a tangible context that immerses trainees and more effectively familiarizes them with equipment- and environment-specific sounds.
Instructions : Clarity, subject-matter expertise, and highly detailed training objectives are essential for effective knowledge transfer. While technology is an essential medium for this knowledge transfer, it is also key to focus on curriculum definition and the clarity of the instructions given to the trainees.
Motion : Operators need to "feel" to memorize. Studies show that multimodal training improves results across a variety of subject areas. Instruction that is founded on auditory and visual learning as well as the kinesthetic domain is the best way to achieve learning success.
Simulator Verification and Validation
Per the definition used by the US Modelling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&SCO), verification and validation is essential in the simulator development and deployment process in order to avoid negative training.
As stated in the VV&A (verification, validation and accreditation) manual, to determine whether a model or simulation or federation should be used in a given situation, its credibility must be established by evaluating its fitness for the intended use.
Credibility is established by evaluating the simulations capabilities, accuracy, correctness, and usability relative to its intended use.
Credibility depends on the following simulation characteristics:
- Capability - Not in an absolute sense, but relative to the capabilities needed for the specified application.
- Accuracy - Not in an absolute sense, but relative to the accuracy necessary for the intended use
- Correctness - The level of confidence that the simulation's data and algorithms are sound, robust, and properly implemented, and that the accuracy of the simulation results will not substantially and unexpectedly deviate from the expected degree of accuracy.
- Usability - Factors related to the use of the simulation, such as the training and experience of those who operate it, the quality and appropriateness of the data used in its application, and the configuration control procedures applied to it.
(source : Modelling and Simulation Coordination Office (M&SCO))
Many elements of credibility can be gauged simply by observing the visualization output of a simulator, but it is only by seating in the trainee seat that a simulation expert will be able to assess the correctness and accuracy of the virtual equipment.
Maximal Trainee Engagement
The best training solution is the one that maximizes trainee engagement. Most operators are multimodal trainees they learn better when they see, hear, and feel during their training. In addition, they are more deeply engaged when they "feel" the "real thing." Static desktop training applications are at one remove from dynamic solutions that appeal to these learning traits.
In Technical Report 1176 by Michael E. McCauley in 2006 for the Research Institute for the Behavioural and Social Sciences, a number of striking conclusions shed new light on what constitutes optimal motion for pilot training :
- "Contrary to the opinion of many simulator engineers and operational personnel (...) there is no certainty that the price of a simulator is related to the training benefits received.
- "Adding a limited amount of motion is highly likely to make a simulator more preferable to pilots.
- The report recommend to implement limited motion in order to gain the following benefits:
- Provide event cues (e.g., landing bump, effective translational lift).
- Avoid the fixed-base doldrums.
- Increase pilot acceptance of the simulator.
Optimal Motion Simulation Solution for Military Aircraft and Land Forces
Interoperable - Deployable - COTS
Allowing virtual training teams to simply integrate existing or upcoming simulators with an efficient and adapted motion solution, the system empowers trainers to stimulate operators muscle memory, creating reflexes and increasing mission critical readiness on the field.
solutions are :
- Interoperable - the vision and history have always driven us to ensure that motion integration in a larger technology architecture is simple. In the training and simulation community we recognize the value of open APIs and use of communication standards. This ensures that in addition to the services we provide to our customers, D-BOX motion solutions are natively interoperable.
- Deployable - In many cases, training is moving from the "training center" to locations in the field and close to the operational terrain. Ruggedized and containerized solution are becoming the norm for many operational logistic and readiness considerations: Today, even training can easily be deployed on-site. The D-BOX motion solution is a game changer when it comes to installation footprint, electrical power requirements, shipment weight, and installation time. Many of our customers have already successfully deployed entire motion-based training solutions in containers or shipped solutions.
- COTS - This means that your TCO (total cost of ownership) of the solution is as low as you can get. By using a solution that is supported, documented, and reputable, you de-risk your programs. In addition, despite the temptation to create dedicated solutions per type of application, your time-to-market is accelerated thanks to its plug-and-play attributes. We have also put our expertise on full display in our latest set of products, which give users access to motion code, behavioural subtlety, and vibrations that no other solution can match in finesse.