High Fidelity Aircrew Trainers

Fixed and Motion Base Aircrew Trainers, Weapons, Weapon Mounts and Visual Systems

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Pathfinder Systems is a leading aircrew trainer supplier for helicopter and fixed wing aircraft. Aircrew trainers provide initial training and continued proficiency to crew chiefs, gunners or loadmasters. Our clients include the United States Marine Corps, United States Air Force, United States Coast Guard, Royal Netherlands Air Force and others. We have extensive experience with the unique needs of cabin crew trainers. Their requirements are radically different from those of a pilot trainer. While in a cockpit trainer one must duplicate the position of every control and instrument precisely as it is in the real aircraft, in an aircrew trainer we must have cabin fidelity. It includes not only the correct position of controls, displays, weapons and other components, but also the recoil and aerodynamic forces exerted on the weapons and on the rounds fired.

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Budgets for aircrew trainers are usually lower than for pilot trainers. Therefore, all of our rotary wing aircrew trainers are convertible between two or three aircraft types.

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In our trainers, the aircrew can wear their actual equipment including flight helmets. They plug into the intercom system. Aural effects such as engine sounds, aerodynamic noise, weapon fire, hits by incoming fire are faithfully reproduced.