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Frontiers August 2015 Issue

Boeing’s patented simulation technology provides military pilots the most realistic view possible without being airborne By Katie Perdaris Lt. Col. Tom Isenberg, a fighter pilot in the Air National Guard, is at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan when the emergency call comes in and the unit’s jets are scrambled. Friendly troops are being overrun, and the pilots need to be airborne quickly to provide close-air support. Isenberg’s F-16 is soon in the air and he is able to make radio contact with a ground controller, who provides coordinates on where the enemy forces are. Isenberg heads in that direction, spots the enemy and swoops in low, laying down ordnance and allowing the friendly troops to safely disengage. Mission complete, he returns to base, physically and mentally tested. Only in this case, the “base” is a training center and he is flying in a simulator, one equipped with Boeing’s Constant Resolution Visual System, or CRVS. “It’s as realistic as you can get without the other sensory inputs from actually flying—the acceleration, the G-forces, the noise,” Isenberg said of the CRVS, a patented technology that has set Boeing apart from its competitors. Isenberg, who works in Global Sales & Marketing for Boeing Defense, Space Photo: Eric Hauquitz, left, lead systems engineer for the Constant Resolution Visual System (CRVS), guides a pilot as he trains using the CRVS. BoB Ferguson | Boeing AUGUST 2015 31


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