Sphere diameter: 3 meters (Electrosphere-F) / 4 meters (Electrosphere-J)
Price:
Custom simulator: $15,000,000 (Electrosphere-F) / $20,000,000 (Electrosphere-J)
Mass-produced simulator: $10,000,000 (Electrosphere-F) / $15,000,000 (Electrosphere-J)
DPR 10 billion (recommended for nations which intend to build a large quantity of Electrospheres, for instance those with a population of over 10 billion persons)
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Background: To become a pilot on any type of aircraft, to maintain proficiency on an aircraft, or to cross-train from one aircraft to another, requires large amounts of hands-on training. However, flight training consumes fuel, spare parts, and ground crew time. Aviation training is also polluting - an airliner can produce over 500 tons of carbon dioxide in a single flight - not to mention the very real hazard of damage to the aircraft. Even small accidents can cost tens of thousands of dollars to repair.
Simulator training, however, has its own limits. Putting a pilot in front of a computer with a joystick can provide only very partial awareness of how a real aircraft handles.
This is why the aviation industry has developed Level D simulators such as the Electrosphere. These enormous machines replicate the interior of the cockpit of a helicopter, fighter jet, or airliner, including replicas of all the aircraft’s control, and specialized wraparound displays that allow us to replicate, as much as possible, the experience of working in a real, steel-and-glass, aircraft.
In initial pilot training, such a simulator enables pilot training institutions to reduce, but not eliminate, flight hours spent in real aircraft. In retraining (for example, retraining a pilots and crew already certified for a given type of airliner to another airliner), the use of a level D simulator enables ZFT (Zero Flight Training) retraining courses, with zero fuel expenses and zero time required on the real aircraft.
Rythar Industries, Incorporated (Sylandral, The High Treefolk), has entered a cooperation with Allanean Defense Exports to promote our own solution to this problem - the Electrosphere Full Flight Simulator.
The Electrosphere-F and Electrosphere-J are two different variants of our simulator, with the former designed to simulate relatively smaller aircraft (such as fighter aircraft and helicopters), and the latter designed to allow bigger aircraft, such as bombers, heavy helicopters, or airliners, to be simulated. The principal variable is the size of the ‘sphere’ itself, with the Electrosphere-J reaching a diameter of 4 meters.
Simulator training, however, has its own limits. Putting a pilot in front of a computer with a joystick can provide only very partial awareness of how a real aircraft handles.
This is why the aviation industry has developed Level D simulators such as the Electrosphere. These enormous machines replicate the interior of the cockpit of a helicopter, fighter jet, or airliner, including replicas of all the aircraft’s control, and specialized wraparound displays that allow us to replicate, as much as possible, the experience of working in a real, steel-and-glass, aircraft.
In initial pilot training, such a simulator enables pilot training institutions to reduce, but not eliminate, flight hours spent in real aircraft. In retraining (for example, retraining a pilots and crew already certified for a given type of airliner to another airliner), the use of a level D simulator enables ZFT (Zero Flight Training) retraining courses, with zero fuel expenses and zero time required on the real aircraft.
Rythar Industries, Incorporated (Sylandral, The High Treefolk), has entered a cooperation with Allanean Defense Exports to promote our own solution to this problem - the Electrosphere Full Flight Simulator.
The Electrosphere-F and Electrosphere-J are two different variants of our simulator, with the former designed to simulate relatively smaller aircraft (such as fighter aircraft and helicopters), and the latter designed to allow bigger aircraft, such as bombers, heavy helicopters, or airliners, to be simulated. The principal variable is the size of the ‘sphere’ itself, with the Electrosphere-J reaching a diameter of 4 meters.
A pilot trainee in a Level D simulator
Technology: The principal element of the Electrosphere itself is, of course, the virtual cockpit. The cockpit is mounted on hydraulic ‘legs’, and accessible through a ladder and/or bridge. (The legs are designed to tilt to create an impression of yaw, pitch, and roll).
Within the simulator, a system of collimating mirrors and projectors is installed to create an illusion of a three-dimensional environment that replicates, as much as feasible, the view from the real aircraft - this, to ensure that the training of the pilot is as realistic as possible, particularly focusing on their ability to estimate distances to objects and understand the limitations of the real aircraft’s field of vision.
Within the simulator, a system of collimating mirrors and projectors is installed to create an illusion of a three-dimensional environment that replicates, as much as feasible, the view from the real aircraft - this, to ensure that the training of the pilot is as realistic as possible, particularly focusing on their ability to estimate distances to objects and understand the limitations of the real aircraft’s field of vision.
The collimating screen system
Every Electrosphere is compatible with standard computing networks, and comes with an EditorSphere open-source editing kit that allows instructors to choose from among pre-loaded training scenarios, create and modify scenarios, and monitor training sessions both in real time and in recorded form, to be able to provide feedback and grading to trainees and to allow for lessons learned from training problems
Paying for your Electrosphere: Every Electrosphere is equipped with controls and a cockpit layout that imitates a specific aircraft - you will not be able to use a fighter jet simulator to train helicopter pilots. If you are ordering a simulator for an aircraft for which we do not already have detailed cockpit layout and control data, you will have to pay an additional sum of $5 million New Dornalian Dollars to cover our research costs and the costs of effectively custom-building a simulator for you. If you are ordering a number of simulators you will only be charged this extra sum for the first simulator of a type. If you are ordering a simulator of an aircraft for which we already have records, you will not be charged this sum at all.
At the present, we have full records for any Mil aircraft (Mi-2 through Mi-38), any Kamov aircraft up to KA-60, all Sukhoi aircraft up to SSJ, and any aircraft listed at ADE. We are working with other nations to add more aircraft to our records, and will add any aircraft which you wish us to work with provided you provide us payment, records, and access to a sample aircraft.
PLEASE MAKE ALL ORDERS AT ALLANEAN DEFENSE EXPORTS
Paying for your Electrosphere: Every Electrosphere is equipped with controls and a cockpit layout that imitates a specific aircraft - you will not be able to use a fighter jet simulator to train helicopter pilots. If you are ordering a simulator for an aircraft for which we do not already have detailed cockpit layout and control data, you will have to pay an additional sum of $5 million New Dornalian Dollars to cover our research costs and the costs of effectively custom-building a simulator for you. If you are ordering a number of simulators you will only be charged this extra sum for the first simulator of a type. If you are ordering a simulator of an aircraft for which we already have records, you will not be charged this sum at all.
At the present, we have full records for any Mil aircraft (Mi-2 through Mi-38), any Kamov aircraft up to KA-60, all Sukhoi aircraft up to SSJ, and any aircraft listed at ADE. We are working with other nations to add more aircraft to our records, and will add any aircraft which you wish us to work with provided you provide us payment, records, and access to a sample aircraft.
PLEASE MAKE ALL ORDERS AT ALLANEAN DEFENSE EXPORTS