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 | | | Emergency ejection or bailout from a badly-damaged aircraft is a life-or-death situation. It can happen over any terrain, in any weather, and under conditions that would keep even airborne paratroops grounded. Training aircrew what to do in these dire emergencies is crucial to their safety and survival – it demands the best solution possible. PARASIM® virtual reality parachute simulator offers safety, availability, economy, efficiency, and self-confidence, while eliminating the hazards of real canopy jumps to highly trained and valuable aircrew personnel. PARASIM® training enables aircrew to respond, swiftly, decisively, and correctly, when faced with ejection or bailout, by allowing them to practice the required skills and procedures in a virtual environment, using real equipment, under safe classroom conditions. Simulation invokes and develops correct skills and avoids developing incorrect habits which are then extremely difficult to overcome, particularly when needed in a crisis.
Simulation equipment has been designed for compatibility with training that includes full equipment procedures with helmets, visor, oxygen mask, communications gear, and seat kits.
| | | Aircrew Emergency Training with PARASIM | | | Compatible with and enhancement to existing procedures | | | | PARASIM® supplies a real-time paced training experience which is compatible with existing full equipment training procedures, including helmets, visor, oxygen mask, communications gear, and seat kits. The trainee sees the consequences of procedure delays on success in obtaining a good parachute and accomplishing control and navigation to a safe landing. | | | | Reduce Panic and Build Self-Confidence | | | | The instructor can set up a challenging jump experience matched to the trainee’s current skill-level to improve their self-confidence, essential to reducing panic and convincing aircrew to resort to a parachute when the situation requires it. | | | | Promotes Instructor/Student Communications. | | | | The instructor has a unique ability to simultaneously see exactly what the trainee sees and does in responding to the emergency that he created, and conduct a direct dialog during the experience. | | | | Safely Teaches Emergency Skills for Dangerous Situations | By providing an environment where errors have actual real-time consequences, trainees naturally develop skill proficiency in:
 | Situational awareness training (altitude, hypoxia, hazards) |  | | Malfunctions corrections | | Collision avoidance | | Minimizing wind effects
| | Smooth controls
| | Landing Techniques | | Select, Plan and Fly Pattern to Target | | Smooth and Full Controls, Sight Picture
| | Landing – point upwind, no low turns, ram-air flare | | | | | Simulator enhanced training visual aids and features. | | | PARASIM® training features provide the instructor the tools to emphasize important concepts during the simulated emergency and critique the student’s responses after the simulation. These tools include:
| Automatic Scoring and Certificate | | Replay and Review | | Data Storage | | | | | Recent Enhancements. | | | | Interaction with the large and enthusiastic user community has motivated the development of a number of enhancements to the trainee visual experience and instructor training controls. These include software features such as more detailed and accurate scene depiction, improved hypoxia simulation and a new night-vision goggles (NVG) emulation mode, and hardware improvements in high resolution head mounted displays (HMD) and head orientation trackers, and multiple simultaneous jumpers through networking. | | | Configurations/Solutions | | | Concept | | | PARASIM® simulators are configured through selections from a number of standard options designed to meet individual customer’s needs and budgets. Further customized configurations are available as well. Some sort of hanging harness training is standard and mandatory for aircrew emergency SERE and life support training. PARASIM® simulator training is a very significant enhancement to this training by allowing the trainee to actually experience and interact with this equipment in a virtual reality environment.
A minimal stand-alone configuration should consist of our basic system combined with a rigid suspension frame. For Aircrew Emergency training, we recommend the following configurations: | | | PARASIM® Configuration for Emergency Ejection Training | PCCTS-4-HCSTKC | Helmet-Compatible Basic Parachute Simulator | Teaches basic canopy flight skills for operational parachutists and military aircrew for use in emergencies. Can be used with customer supplied normal flight helmet allowing training of helmet procedures such as visor and oxygen mask.
Includes: Helmet-Compatible VR head mounted display with head tracker, simulation-compatible personal computer, two monitors for student’s and instructor’s display screens, basic PARASIM® Parachute Flight Training Simulator software, Control Force Loader System with digital interface card, 3D graphics card, VR video-type headset, Joystick. Includes commonly used aircrew emergency chute models and a variety of different scenes (Airport, Jungle, Carrier at Sea, and several others.) System configured and tested at STI; shipping and two days on-site assistance with installation and training included within CONUS. Requires: Customer-provided facility with a normal office environment and existing four-point rigidly-attached suspended parachute harness. | PCCTS-4-SRSF | Snap-Fit Rack-Based Suspension Frame | Snap-fit Rack-based Suspension Frame for PARASIM® parachute simulator installations without a rigidly anchored suspended harness. Anchors to floor. | PCCTS-4-MALFS | Malfunctions Software System Option | Teaches operational parachutists and military aircrew to identify parachute malfunctions and respond promptly and decisively to correct them or cutaway and deploy the reserve canopy. | PCCTS-4-DRFSHDS | Damped Riser Force Sensors | Teaches operational parachutists and military aircrew riser steering of canopy and provides automatic sensing of parachutist inputs to clear malfunctions. More robust sensors with internal shock absorber dampers capable of withstanding sudden release of load. | | | | PARASIM® Configuration for Emergency Bailout Training | PCCTS-4-HCSTKC | Helmet-Compatible Basic Parachute Simulator | Teaches basic canopy flight skills for operational parachutists and military aircrew for use in emergencies. Can be used with customer supplied normal flight helmet allowing training of helmet procedures such as visor and oxygen mask.
Includes: Helmet-Compatible VR head mounted display with head tracker, simulation-compatible personal computer, two monitors for student’s and instructor’s display screens, basic PARASIM® Parachute Flight Training Simulator software, Control Force Loader System with digital interface card, 3D graphics card, VR video-type headset, Joystick. Includes commonly used aircrew emergency chute models and a variety of different scenes (Airport, Jungle, Carrier at Sea, and several others.) System configured and tested at STI; shipping and two days on-site assistance with installation and training included within CONUS. Requires: Customer-provided facility with a normal office environment and existing four-point rigidly-attached suspended parachute harness. | PCCTS-4-SRSF | Snap-Fit Rack-Based Suspension Frame | Snap-fit Rack-based Suspension Frame for PARASIM® parachute simulator installations without a rigidly anchored suspended harness. Anchors to floor. | PCCTS-4-AADMO | Manual Override/Ripcord, AAD, Oxygen Option | Supplies PARASIM® sensors and software for parachute manual override (ripcord), automatic altitude opener deployment, and oxygen cables for customer-supplied parachute container harness. | PCCTS-4-MALFS | Malfunctions Software System Option | Teaches operational parachutists and military aircrew to identify parachute malfunctions and take prompt, decisive action to correct them or cutaway and deploy the reserve canopy. | PCCTS-4-DRFSHDS | Damped Riser Force Sensors | Teaches operational parachutists and military aircrew riser steering of canopy and provides automatic sensing of parachutist inputs to clear malfunctions. Robust sensors with internal shock absorber dampers capable of withstanding sudden release of load. | | | | As almost all training facilities acquiring PARASIM® simulators already have hanging harness or parachute equipment, and/or access to out-of-service surplus equipment, PARASIM® systems do not include this equipment, to keep acquisition costs down. These site-provided common items include training parachute harness (bailout type with cable housings and manual release handle) and risers, helmets, dark visor, and oxygen mask (complete with CRU fitting), and chairs and a table for the computer and monitors. The installation should be in an area with normal office environmental control and at least one adjacent wall power socket. A power strip is provided with the equipment. | | | Additional Options | | | Networking | | | PARASIM® is also available with a Network option that enables group operations – multiple jumpers interacting in a shared simulation environment. This is particularly useful for simulating multiple ejections or bailout from a single aircraft, as well as for reducing the instructor/student ratio with centralized control. A single PARASIM® Master Controller can be used by one instructor to set up, launch and monitor multiple students. | | | | Deployable Configuration | | | | PARASIM® is available in a deployable version, running on a notebook computer, with a lightweight frame that collapses and stores in two packing cases for transport and deployment. Take PARASIM® along wherever you go, to keep jump skills fresh! | | | | Custom Features | | | | PARASIM® includes the most commonly used aircrew emergency canopies and a variety of simulation environments, but through STI’s custom engineering services, additional chutes and new, real-world-based scenes can be added. Need a new canopy, or want your own training DZ replicated in PARASIM®? Contact us for your specific needs! | | | | Customers | | | PARASIM® aircrew emergency customers in the US include:
NASA
Navy
Air Force (major commands ACC, AMC, AETC, AFMC, AFSOC, USAFE, PACAF, AFRC, ANG) PARASIM® is also used for aircrew emergency training in the UK and Canada. | | | | | | | |
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