A pilot training system includes a training terminal integrated with a pilot training seat with a seat pan having six degrees of freedom, wherein the training terminal is configured to exclusively provide and render a simulated flight-training environment and to output control signals to synchronize movement of the seat pan with the simulated environment. The system is transportable so that it can be used to provide flight training at a user-selected and repositionable location. The system also may include an instructor terminal located at an instructor site. The training site and the instructor site can be remotely located. The instructor may provide remote instruction or training to a trainee, for example by sending instruction inputs to the training terminal over the network in order to control aspects of the simulated environment.

A flight simulation system for performing flight simulation of aircraft models includes a head-mounted display for displaying a virtual reality image of a cockpit including operational interfaces, a haptic device including a touch sensor for detecting a touch location touched by a user and a vibrator for causing a vibration, and a control device including a processor and a memory. The processor execute a process including: performing flight simulation of a model selected by the user; causing the head-mounted display to display the virtual reality image picturing the operational interfaces; when the user touches the haptic device, causing the vibrator to cause a vibration at the touch location; based on coordinate data indicating coordinate locations of the operational interfaces and the touch location, identifying an operational interface corresponding to the touch location; and applying a change based on an operation performed on the identified operational interface to flight simulation.

An augmented reality system, includes a head-mounted see-through optic adapted to present digital content viewable by a user and having a transparency that allows the user to see though to the surrounding environment, a non-visual tracking system adapted to identify and track objects in a surrounding environment that cannot be seen visually, a training simulation system adapted to present a virtual training object on a display on the non-visual tracking system and a virtual content presentation system adapted to present digital content in the optic when the distance between the optic and the virtual training object indicates the object is in visual range.

A method of training a plurality of pilots, each in a separate real aircraft, includes providing a head mounted see-through computer display (HMD) to each of the plurality of pilots such that each of the plurality of pilots are enabled to view a common virtual environment with computer rendered training content, tracking a location, attitude and speed of each of the separate real aircraft, positioning the computer rendered training content at a geospatial location within a visual range of each of the plurality of pilots and presenting the computer rendered training content to the HMD of each of the plurality of pilots, wherein the presentation in each individual HMD is dependent on an alignment of each respective HMD and the computer rendered content geospatial location.

A system for flight simulation of an electric aircraft. The system includes a pilot control. The pilot control is configured to receive an input from a user. The system includes a pilot command that is generated by the pilot control. The system includes a computing device configured to generate a simulation. The simulation includes an electric aircraft model. The electric aircraft model is configured to simulate a performance of an electric aircraft. The performance is determined by at least the pilot command. The simulation is configured to provide feedback to the user based on the performance of the electric aircraft. The simulation is further configured to updated the electric aircraft model as a function of the pilot command.

A remote training apparatus for a drone flight in a mixed reality includes: a processor; and a memory, wherein the memory stores program instructions executable by the processor to generate a virtual flight space using arrangement information of one or more anchors and tags arranged in a physical space for the flight of the drone, and receive and register a flight training scenario generated in the virtual flight space from a second computer belonging to a remote expert group that remotely communicates with a first computer belonging to a drone operator group, wherein the flight training scenario includes one or more virtual obstacles and one or more flight instruction commands, and at least some of the flight instruction commands are mapped to the one or more virtual obstacles, and receive one or more annotations generated by the remote expert group from the second computer to transmit the annotations to the first computer.

An augmented reality system, includes a first head-mounted see-through optic and a second head-mounted see-through optic each adapted to present digital content viewable by a user and having a transparency that enables the user to see through to the surrounding environment, wherein the first and second optics are separated by a distance such that a user of the first cannot see a user of the second optic, a training simulation system adapted to present digital content to each of the first and second optics, wherein the digital content represents a vehicle operated by the other user, wherein the digital content is presented to the first optic at a geospatial position proximate the first optic and the training simulation system further adapted to move the geospatial position of the digital content to maintain an apparent position relative to the other vehicle based on the other vehicle's movements.

There is provided a method and apparatus for simulating a flight scenario during a live flight of an aircraft. The method comprises: (i) generating (60) images comprising scenes relevant to the simulated flight scenario at a simulated altitude; (ii) calculating, using live flight data received for the aircraft and with reference to a predetermined flight model (65), simulated flight data for the simulated flight scenario at the simulated altitude; and (iii) displaying, on a display system (35) of the aircraft, the calculated simulated flight data while controlling the display of said generated scene images to simulate movement of the aircraft through the displayed scene at a rate and in a direction corresponding to the displayed simulated flight data. The method and apparatus may optionally alter the response of the aircraft to control actions (70) by a pilot to simulate the response expected of the aircraft having the simulated flight characteristics.

Systems, methods, and computer products according to the principles of the present inventions may involve a training system for a pilot of an aircraft. The training system may include an aircraft sensor system affixed to the aircraft adapted to provide a location of the aircraft, including an altitude of the aircraft, speed of the aircraft, and directional attitude of the aircraft. It may further include a helmet position sensor system adapted to determine a location of a helmet within a cockpit of the aircraft and a viewing direction of a pilot wearing the helmet. The helmet may include a see-through computer display through which the pilot sees an environment outside of the aircraft with computer content overlaying the environment to create an augmented reality view of the environment for the pilot. A computer content presentation system may be adapted to present computer content to the see-through computer display at a virtual marker, generated by the computer content presentation system, representing a geospatial position of a training asset moving within a visual range of the pilot, such that the pilot sees the computer content from a perspective consistent with the aircraft's position, altitude, attitude, and the pilot's helmet position when the pilot's viewing direction is aligned with the virtual marker.

The present invention relates to a training system for training of a forward controller. The training system utilises a pod housing that can be attached to a hardpoint under an aircraft wing. The pod is configured to receive communications from the forward controller on the ground (or in another aircraft) and communicate wirelessly with an HMD and/or electronic device in the cockpit of the aircraft. This allows cheaper, less expensive aircraft to be used for training purposes.