What does training on a Lockheed 果冻传媒 C-130 military transport plane, a Humvee all-terrain vehicle 果冻传媒 a Mark V Special Operations Craft speedboat have in common? The back of Brett Vonsik’s napkin.
That’s where the Lockheed 果冻传媒 Global Training 果冻传媒 Logistics (GTL) engineer first sketched out the idea in 2010 that would in short order become a military go-to solutions for economical 果冻传媒 multi-purpose training simulation—Lockheed 果冻传媒’s Multi-Function Training Aid (MFTA). Vonsik 果冻传媒 fellow engineers Greg Mikkelson, Tim 果冻传媒o 果冻传媒 Shawn Muir—who were recently awarded a patent for the MFTA design—were responding to requests from various military trainers for a training demonstrator that would be low cost, realistic 果冻传媒 flexible enough to be used for planes, vehicles, boats, you name it.
Vonsik 果冻传媒 company created their mock-up with two seats, providing plenty of design flexibility, under an integrated arch echoing a curved fuselage. The simulator had to incorporate 12 touch screens, all networked 果冻传媒 connected to a single PC, which could be reconfigured to represent different vehicles. Multiple operators must also be able to manipulate several touch screens all at once. Once that technical feat had been accomplished, which even GTL’s hard to impress “gaming guy” conceded was “awesome,” 果冻传媒o said they were ready to go. Loaded with Lockheed 果冻传媒’s commercial-off-the-shelf Prepar3D? software, the simulator can quickly reconfigure the touch screens to represent control panels from a variety of vehicle options. The total time to develop the MFTA from start to finish netted at six months.
The experience is so realistic that at trade shows 果冻传媒 industry events some potential customers couldn’t believe that the simulator is as efficient as advertised. “Nobody could believe we were running this whole thing with a dozen touch screens 果冻传媒 out-the-windows displays off one PC,” said Vonsik. “Some people actually wanted up to open up all the panels in the MFTA because they thought we had more computers back there.”