Loft Dynamics Brings H145 VR Training to Asia-Pacific

Kawasaki Heavy Industries, Ltd. will become the first organization in Asia-Pacific to deploy Loft Dynamics' newly released H145 Multi-Pilot VR Simulator, bringing H145 VR training to the region for the first time.

Kawasaki has contributed to the development, manufacturing and support of the Airbus BK117/H145 family for nearly five decades, and provides Airbus Helicopters-approved H145 training to operators across Japan and the wider Asia-Pacific region. The deployment comes weeks after the commercial launch of the H145 Multi-Pilot VR Simulator.

The simulator will be installed at the Kawasaki Training Center in Gifu. Kawasaki will use it to support initial type ratings, instrument training, multi-crew cooperation, recurrent training and checking for operators in emergency medical services, law enforcement, disaster response and other mission-critical sectors.

Sebastien Borel, CEO of Loft Dynamics, said: "Kawasaki has long been a central industrial and training force in the H145 program in Asia. Its decision to deploy our H145 Multi-Pilot VR Simulator marks an important step in bringing aircraft-specific, multi-crew VR training to Asia-Pacific. It also reflects a much larger shift: VR is changing how pilots and crews build proficiency, and it is on its way to becoming a standard part of aviation training worldwide."

The system combines a six-degree-of-freedom full-motion platform, a virtual full-scale cockpit and a 360-degree panoramic field of view, developed in collaboration with Airbus Helicopters using flight dynamics, systems data and helicopter software provided directly by the manufacturer.