CAE launches new Mixed Reality Flight Simulator for eVTOL market

CAE has launched its newest 700MXR Flight Sim­u­la­tor, ini­tial­ly tar­get­ed to the eVTOL mar­ket for com­plex urban set­tings to deliv­er high-fideli­ty, physics-based sim­u­la­tion tai­lored to sin­gle-pilot oper­a­tions, at the Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al Air Show 2022.

With a com­pact mini-motion plat­form and 360 degree field of view, CAE’s next-gen­er­a­tion immer­sive syn­thet­ic out-the-win­dow envi­ron­ment will enable pilots to take advan­tage of enhanced 3D per­cep­tion and AI-based dig­i­tal capa­bil­i­ties to ful­ly engage in real­is­tic, low-lev­el fly­ing sce­nar­ios, com­bined with a mixed real­i­ty head mount­ed dis­play and real cock­pit con­trols and instru­men­ta­tion.

CAE Civ­il Group pres­i­dent Nick Leon­tidis said: “The CAE 700MXR’s ultra-real­is­tic sim­u­la­tion bridges the gap between the phys­i­cal and vir­tu­al worlds to deliv­er an unri­valled train­ing expe­ri­ence for future eVTOL pilots.

“CAE is lead­ing the way, devel­op­ing advanced tech­nolo­gies and set­ting the train­ing stan­dard for the eVTOL mar­ket, and our inno­v­a­tive approach will ensure faster, more effi­cient train­ing for pilots.”

Volo­copter and CAE are devel­op­ing, cer­ti­fy­ing and deploy­ing a pilot train­ing pro­gram for oper­at­ing Volocopter’s elec­tric air taxi in sup­port of the launch of Volocopter’s antic­i­pat­ed urban air mobil­i­ty (UAM) ser­vices for the 2024 Olympic and Par­a­lympic Games in Paris, France.

Volo­copter chief com­mer­cial offi­cer Chris­t­ian Bauer added: “Pilots will play a piv­otal role in launch­ing elec­tric air taxi ser­vices, and we must ensure that the sim­u­la­tors for this new air­craft con­form with the high­est qual­i­ty pilot train­ing in avi­a­tion.”

Leon­tidis con­tin­ued: “We look for­ward to work­ing with the Volo­copter team to ensure their pilots receive indus­try-lead­ing train­ing in the class­room and on the CAE700MXR sim­u­la­tor. Volo­copter is a val­ued part­ner, and CAE will be there every step of the way to sup­port their entry into ser­vice.”

Dur­ing the Farn­bor­ough Inter­na­tion­al Air Show 2022, CAE deliv­ered an aug­ment­ed real­i­ty demon­stra­tion of the CAE 700MXR to allow atten­dees to visu­al­ize the 3D per­spec­tive of the new flight sim­u­la­tor and explore its inno­v­a­tive fea­tures and func­tion­al­i­ties.

In March, Joby Avi­a­tion part­nered with CAE to devel­op and qual­i­fy flight sim­u­la­tion train­ing devices that will be used to train future pilots of Joby’s com­mer­cial eVTOL air­craft.

In Sep­tem­ber 2021, Beta Tech­nolo­gies select­ed CAE to design and devel­op its pilot and main­te­nance tech­ni­cian train­ing pro­gram for the Alia eVTOL air­craft.