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OMIA: Simulation-based Training for Helicopter Cockpit Operations


Customer U. S. Navy
Users Helicopter crew members and their instructors
Need The Common Cockpit design used by the Navy’s new MH-60S and MH-60R helicopters includes all the flight and mission instrumentation. It enables the pilot and co-pilot to share workload through dual flight and mission instrumentation. The Navy needed a part task trainer that would enable crew members to practice cockpit operations in a variety of simulated missions, such as anti-submarine warfare, search and rescue.
Solution Stottler Henke has developed and continues to enhance the Operator Machine Interface Assistant (OMIA), a PC-based training system that utilizes Microsoft Flight Simulator to help crewmembers learn the new Common Cockpit. OMIA is comprised of a collection of training tools. OMIA’s operator system interface partial-task trainer (PTT) simulates the operation of the mission display, flight display and the center console. This PTT also incorporates Microsoft Flight Simulator to provide the flight dynamics and display.

OMIA’s naval environment simulator simulates a subset of the helicopter’s environment. It models the interaction of physical objects in a tactical domain, including the helicopter itself; submarines, ships, other aircraft sensed by the helicopter’s radar and sonar, and weapons available on the respective platforms.

OMIA’s scenario generator enables an author to create training scenarios that specify the entities to be included in the scenario (e.g., one submarine, one plane and two boats), their initial states, and their programmable behaviors that control the entities’ actions in response to other simulated events, states, and the passage of time.

Status OMIA is currently used in the Navy's fleet training program for MH-60S & MH-60R helicopter crews.
Additional
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Video demonstrations: Windows Media Video (WMV)

MH-60S and MH-60R - Flying with MS Flight Simulator 2MB, 1 min
Demonstration of MH-60R Sensor Operator Training 2MB, 3 mins
Demonstration of MH-60R Sensor Operator Intelligent Tutoring 5MB, 2 mins

Video demonstrations: AVI video with TSCC Codec

I/ITSEC 2001 paper:A Common Cockpit Training System 





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