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Training Rationale
Virtalis’s subsidiary company, VP Defence, has developed several training VR simulators for the Ministry of Defence in recent years.  These include our Gunnery Simulator for the Royal Navy, our Avionics Maintainance Trainer, our Helicopter Crew Reality system, both for the RAF, and our recently completed, Type 45 Familarisation VR Model (click for the press release), again for the Royal Navy.

Helicopter Crew Reality Trainer exceptional quality real-time seaGunnery trainerTornado maintenance trainer

Our experience has enabled us to understand fully the requirements of those responsible for delivering training programmes, notably that simulators should: 

  • possess meaningful training content
  • feature appropriate commercial, “off-the-shelf” technologies
  • exploit the merging of synthetic environments and real hardware to enhance the “believability” of training scenarios
  • represent a significant training and evaluation tool for military instructors
  • free up real equipment which would otherwise be tied up with training
  • save time and money
    

Our systems, each very different and encompassing a variety of VR techniques, manage to fulfil all the criteria listed above. The result is that on all of the projects undertaken, we have surpassed our customers’ expectations by some margin.  Here are what just a couple of users of our various installations have said about their experience of a Virtalis VR training system:

Warrant Officer Bob Bainbridge of HMS Collingwood explained: “The advantages of VR training are numerous.  Not only can we help to reduce the environmental pollution caused by spent ammunition, but there are other major benefits, including a major reduction in expenditure on live ammunition, no need to air-tow targets and no reliance on the weather.  In the year prior to the inception of the 20 and 30 mm VR trainers, the Royal Navy spent £1.5 million on live rounds.  Naturally, as there is almost no cost associated with the use of Virtalis’s trainers, we were able to fire approximately 30 times more rounds in the first year of operation and, of course, this is set to rise with the addition of the VR GPMG trainer.  This kind of intensive training is no longer seen as extravagant, but good, cost-effective practice.”


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RAF Logo"Both phases of the Voice Marshalling trainer have exceeded all our expectations.

Since phase one of the trainer was delivered, we have had several students through the course who probably would not have passed without it.

The graphics on the system are superb and, as a result, we are now delivering the kind of ground based and remedial training we had never thought possible"

Flight Lt. Sam McDonagh
 
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