training  pilots  how to  fight  as  one...

RYAN AEROSPACE's AH-64E Apache device is built around a simple distinction: a flight simulator teaches someone to fly an aircraft, a mission trainer teaches a crew to fight as one. Every Apache is flown by two aviators working in constant coordination, the pilot in the back seat and the co-pilot gunner (CPG) in the front, and a single-crew device can never fully replicate that. RYAN AEROSPACE's system can, and it goes further, linking multiple devices together so entire multi-ship missions can be trained in the one environment.

the  technology...

RYAN AEROSPACE has developed both the back seat pilot station and the front seat co-pilot gunner (CPG) station, each built around the real AH-64E cockpit layout, controls, and displays the crew will use in the aircraft.

Mixed reality, not virtual reality. As with RYAN AEROSPACE's other mission trainers, the system blends a physical cockpit with a high-fidelity virtual environment, keeping every switch and control exactly where a crew's hands expect it while the world outside the canopy is generated to suit the scenario.

Devices that link together. Individual pilot and CPG stations can be networked into a single training environment, allowing multiple Apache crews, and multiple aircraft, to fly and fight in the same mission at the same time.

what  crews  practise...

• Crew coordination between pilot and CPG, developing the division of tasks, cross-checks, and shared situational awareness that a real Apache crew depends on
• Multi-ship tactics, training crews to operate as part of a flight rather than in isolation
• Communication under mission conditions, with other aircraft in the flight and with ground, air, and sea entities involved in the scenario
• Coordinated engagement of a shared threat picture, built through repetition that would otherwise require significant live flying hours to achieve

a  compliment  to  the Longbow  Crew  Trainer  (LCT)...

The AH-64E Apache mission trainer is not built to replace the Longbow Crew Trainer (LCT). It is built to supplement it. The LCT remains the highest-fidelity device for advanced mission rehearsal, but its cost limits how many hours, and how many crews, can train on it. RYAN AEROSPACE's device is designed to sit alongside the LCT at a much lower cost, so operators can field it in greater quantities and give more crews more hours on the fundamentals, freeing up LCT time for the advanced training only it can provide.

Pictured below is the Pilot Station (Rear Seat).

Pictured below is the Co-Pilot Gunner Station (Front Seat). The two of these devices can be linked together (including the D-Box motion platform on both devices) so they can act as one virtual aircraft with two crew members. The devices can be one behind the other, next to each other, in different rooms or even in different countries. They can still operate together as one.