Ryan Aerospace has launched its brand new Robinson Mixed Reality Helicopter Simulator at Rotortech in Gold Coast, Australia.

This new mixed reality simulator redefines professional, affordable simulation using the latest mixed reality technologies. 

Mixed Reality (MR) means the trainee (wearing a headset with built in pass-through cameras) can see real elements in the headset as well as virtual ones. 

For example: body, controls, seat, kneeboard and some control panels/avionics are all seen as real, whilst the rest of the instruments, the cabin and out-the-window visuals are virtual. 

All this is packaged up in a small footprint simulator platform with built-in motion platform that can fit into just a small office space.

“This will be one of the most realistic and convincing simulators you will have ever set foot in,” the company said.

Ryan Aerospace is a pioneer in the field of virtual and mixed reality simulators, having already delivered many hundreds of devices to the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and U.S. Navy, to name just a few.