Qantas Captain Matt Gray describes techniques and the value of eye-tracking for flight simulator sessions It took a long time for instructors to adopt the technology; their view is that they can do a pretty good job by guessing where the trainee is looking. And that’s perfectly true. You can sit there and have a…
ATR regional aircraft and business aircraft full-flight simulator company AXIS Flight Training Systems GmbH (Lebring, Austria) are developing an artificial intelligence-supported ‘instant debriefing’ station. The initial concept is to aide the instructor with additional, objective data. But they have a “crazy idea,” according to CEO Christian Theuermann, to eventually “support training devices without an instructor…
A Conversation with Acron Aviation Data VP Mitesh Patel The L3Harris Commercial Aviation Solutions’ data analytics business – essentially the acquisition in 2019 of Flight Data Services – focuses on providing flight data monitoring (FDM) solutions to airlines in terms of operational safety monitoring. Mitesh Patel is VP and GM, Flight Data Analytics. L3Harris CAS…
“We are incorporating AI as machine learning to replicate the instructors on their motions and behavior. Cloning basically,” Tay said. Calgary, Canada-based Illumia – which originated in 2020 as Delphi Technology – has been developing immersive virtual- and mixed-reality training platforms for commercial aviation and defense customers, as well as other businesses. The newest platform…
For many years, professional aviation trainers have disparaged Microsoft Flight Simulator (MFS) as non-serious: entertainment, not education. “If you had done a web search, the results would have been that it’s terrible, that you will form so many bad habits that you will go kill yourself in an airplane,” said Brandon Seltz. “I didn’t believe…
Two of the true pioneers of developing AI for aviation training are the father-son team of Adolfo and Mikhail Klassen. For nearly three decades, Adolfo Klassen held key positions in Montréal, Canada-based CAE, including Director of Aviation Training, VP Engineering and Technology, and ultimately Chief Technology Officer. In June 2013, he launched the startup Paladin…
Tucked in the southeast section of Toulouse, France with neighbors such as Ecole Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) and Airbus Defence and Space, is one of the most highly regarded aerospace engineering schools in the world – Institut Supérieur de l’Aéronautique et de l’Espace (ISAE-SUPAERO). ISAE was founded in 1909, the same year Frenchman Louis…
Artificial Intelligence (AI) encompasses various tasks, including learning, reasoning, problem-solving, perception, and language understanding. The major types of AI can be categorized based on their capabilities and functionality into three key areas: Narrow AI, General AI, and Superintelligent AI. 1. Narrow AI (Weak AI) Narrow AI, also known as Weak AI, is the most prevalent…
More than a decade ago, CAE leveraged the flight operational quality assurance (FOQA) process, which analyzes flight data to improve pilot performance, to create SOQA – Simulator Operations Quality Assurance, which compares simulator-derived data with FOQA data. CAE tapped the capabilities of modern full-flight simulators (FFSs) to offer SOQA evidence-based training tools as a new…
Can biosensors improve flight instruction? It depends, ironically, on the level of instructor input into the process of observing and grading flight crew behaviors in training. In a research project examining crew audio from flight simulators, Ireland-based company Vocavio Civil Aviation System and B&P Consulting of Canada discovered that, on average, “for every 10 workload…