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CAE Addresses Military Pilot Shortage with New TRAX Academy Solution
There is currently a well-documented pilot shortage within militaries the world over as the demand for proficient aircrew rapidly increases and the pull from commercial aviation accelerates. The current military pilot shortfall that is only expected to continue requires a revolutionary approach to the delivery of undergraduate pilot training.
In order to close this gap, the entire continuum of military pilot training needs to be addressed and made more streamlined and efficient, from classroom basics and simulation all the way up to live flying. An integrated training continuum leveraging new technologies and capabilities will help ensure training requirements are met in a timely manner, while also delivering the highest quality of standards that are expected in the military domain.
CAE has been working to address military pilot training requirements and has applied its wealth of experience to revolutionise the way in which pilot training can be delivered. Ultimately, this new age pilot training solution will lessen the burden on instructors and enable more self-paced learning while taking advantage of data analytics for objective assessment.
CAE’s Training Solution
The result of this work is CAE’s TRAX Academy, an integrated training continuum that will streamline military pilot training.
The TRAX Academy, with TRAX meaning “training acceleration” and the use of virtual/mixed reality technologies, focuses on three key principles that together lead to a more efficient training continuum: Learn, Practice and Perform.
This approach saves resources by allowing students to carry out much of the training by themselves in a self-paced learning environment with the help of advanced technologies and data analytics, thus providing a consistent and high level of training, but in a quicker and more cost-effective manner.
The TRAX Academy utilises digital technologies such as virtual reality (VR) and artificial intelligence throughout, as well as incorporating CAE Rise (Real-time insights and standardised evaluations) for objective data analytics that provides transparency and objective assessment on the training being conducted. The training grounded in data analytics helps provide student pilots as well as instructors the opportunity to learn and quickly address any areas needing improvement.
The first stage of the TRAX Academy is the use of a mobile app linked to a learning management system that contains all the required computer-based courseware needed for theoretical knowledge and understanding. But here is where the digital age starts delivering on the promise of transforming pilot training. The courseware is virtual reality-enabled so students can learn and then visualise the tasks and procedures required to continue through the course.
After the “learn” phase, students then transition to CAE’s new Sprint VR trainer, a key component of the TRAX Academy that provides self-paced, immersive, high-fidelity learning. The CAE Sprint VR trainer allows student pilots to “practice” what they just learned, and to do so at their own pace with the assistance of CAE Rise-enabled virtual coach.
Disruptive Technologies
This integral part of the CAE TRAX Academy includes disruptive technologies to enhance the learning experience. The small-footprint, cost-effective CAE Sprint VR trainer includes a VR headset, haptic feedback, physical flight controls, CAE’s Medallion image generator, and CAE’s virtual coach. Importantly, CAE’s extensive experience with high-fidelity flight simulation has also made its way to the Sprint VR trainer. The high-fidelity and realistic simulation environment delivers enhanced realism in comparison to other available VR trainers, providing full cockpit acuity and interaction in a fully simulated virtual environment.
By introducing students to such a high level of fidelity in a cost-effective virtual training device at this stage of the training continuum, the student gets much more practice before proceeding to high-end simulators or the actual aircraft.
The final stage of the CAE TRAX Academy continuum is that transition to a higher-fidelity simulator or even a live aircraft. This is also the stage where the instructor and student get one-on-one time in which students can demonstrate proficiency to “perform” the tasks and procedures they have learned and practiced. Here again, CAE Rise comes into play by aiding the instructor in objectively assessing the student’s progress.
“What we’re introducing with the TRAX Academy is a training continuum and comprehensive integrated solution,” says Philippe Perey, Head of Technology for CAE’s Defence & Security business unit. “We believe this type of digital transformation applied to pilot training will contribute to helping solve the pilot shortage that many of our customers are facing by streamlining and making the pilot training process more efficient,”
Perey continued, “It is all about moving student pilots through the programme faster, and with reduced demands on key resources such as instructors. And importantly, this is all done in a student-centric, self-paced environment and grounded in a strong foundation of data analytics to ensure continuous improvement going forward.”
The CAE TRAX Academy is one result of a major digital transformation and R&D investment CAE launched in 2018 as part of its Project Digital Intelligence programme that seeks to revolutionise training in aviation and healthcare for the 21st century. The TRAX Academy and the Sprint VR trainer are products of that work, and are examples of CAE digitally transforming the training environment to address not only the challenge of training pilots, but also how students now learn.
Going Beyond USAF Requirements
CAE’s solutions also build on the experience of the U.S. Air Force’s Pilot Training Next (PTN) programme, an initiative that is seeking to address the service’s pilot shortage by reimagining the way that training is delivered to pilots and ensuring that it is delivered more intuitively and quickly.
“We and the entire pilot training industry really owe a debt of gratitude to the U.S. Air Force for proactively encouraging and considering new methods and technologies for pilot training,” explains Perey. “What we’ve essentially done with the TRAX Academy and the Sprint VR trainer is we’ve upped the solution a couple levels. We’ve brought in better aircraft simulation, better acuity VR headsets, force feedback, and digitally-enabled courseware so that the student can advance at their own pace, and we’ve built all this on a foundation of artificial intelligence and data analytics that delivers objectivity and allows continuous feedback.”
By addressing a key customer pain point – efficiently and effectively producing pilots – and applying its pilot training experience with innovative digital technologies, CAE is now helping define the methods and standards by which aircrew will be trained in the years to come.
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