AFRL uses video game to boost pilot training
From the Dayton Daily News:
WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE — The Air Force Research Laboratory is using off-the-shelf flight simulation game software to craft programs that can be used to train pilots. AFRL researchers said the commercial video game software also can be used as a basis to train joint terminal attack controllers, military personnel who rely on video feeds from an unmanned aerial vehicle to call in air strikes. AFRL researchers have been working with commercial software developers in what the Air Force describes as an initial demonstration project.
Combining off-the-shelf, commercially available software with military-specific databases can reduce the time and costs of developing the flight simulators needed to train warplane pilots, AFRL researchers said. The demonstration project made use of X-Plane, the software for a commercially available flight-simulator game. (MORE)
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MattG on
Mon, 22nd Dec 2008 1:48 pm
Umm, yeah, when I worked at Wright-Patt over the summer (I worked under AFRL) there was a place called the “Virtual Combat Laboratory” in the Sensors Directorate (the building where I worked). Never did get a chance to tour in there… ‘Course, it was a locked vault, so I couldn’t exactly waltz in and ask for a tour…
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