Client

Royal Netherlands Air Force
Botswana Defence Forces

Project

Pilot Training Panels

Problem

The RNAF / BDF had recently purchased a new type of aircraft, and needed to train the pilots about the aircraft systems without resorting to tying up an operational aircraft.

Solution

LDTM manufactured a set of six interactive animated "wall charts" that provided visual interactive depictions of:

• Fuel System

• Engine and Engine Controls

• Electrical System

• Flying Controls

• Landing Gear

• Environmental System

The Fuel System and Engine panels were interlinked so that an action on one panel showed the corresponding effect within both systems.

Conclusion

In practice these systems could have used desk top PC's, however quite apart from the expense, these would not have given the trainee pilots the kind of hands-on feel that they got from using panels with full size operating controls.