UK display specialist Seos is upgrading four simulators used by Lockheed Martin for F/A-22 Raptor stealth fighter development. The display upgrade includes the first use of the company's Optimizer high-resolution target insertion system, which removes the need for separate target projectors.
Each simulator display is being upgraded with four Barco Reality 908 projectors for each of three front screens, with the three 808 projectors relocated to serve the upper front screen. The Optimizer system is then used to control the four front and two target image-generator channels to insert up to 16 air and ground targets into the visual scene.
Lockheed Martin is launch customer for Optimizer, which Seos describes as a flexible pixel management system that places high-resolution imagery where it is most needed, reducing the number of image-generator channels required. The first two of the Marietta, Georgia-based simulators will be upgraded by June, the other two by mid-July.
Evans & Sutherland (E&S), meanwhile, has upgraded the British Army's Aviation Command and Tactics Trainer, replacing the image generators for the instructor and six student stations with 19 channels of its Ensemble PC-based visual system. This included adding forward-looking infrared and night-vision goggle capability to the visual databases.
All five UK military helicopter and fixed-wing training programmes using S&E's Harmony 1 visual system are now fully operational, and problems with the high-performance image generator have been overcome. Har- mony 1 systems are in use with the UK's Defence Helicopter Flying School and Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility, and Apache attack helicopter, Sea Harrier and Tornado GR4 synthetic training programmes.
Source: Flight International
