Operantis

Combining immersive real-time 3D and excellent pedagogical approach, this unique combination provides the release of first training device dedicated to manage maintenance operations; ATR600 VMPT. Beyond their graphic and pedagogical qualities, benefits provided by these innovative tools are many:

• Avoids real aircraft immobilization (not available for training).
• Integration of specific learning approaches (such as the insertion of failures for example) impossible on real aircraft.
• Allows the trainee to perform trouble-shooting exercise without endangering nor life, nor the material.
• Allows to train several people at once, at their own pace, while still be present in the training room.
• Provides instructor and trainee with a database of common and / or “exotic” maintenance operations.
• To carry out innovative training using the latest virtual reality technologies.
• To ensure easy maintainability of the training device (the 3D model is updated quickly based on modification of the real aircraft design).
• Get a faster return on investment of training operations.
  

These tools can be used in a blended learning approach with the instructor, or for autonomous self-training. In both cases, training in a 3D immersive scenario provides excellent training outcome. The instructor is no longer confined to perform repetitive tasks or theory, but gives full expression to his technical skills by setting trouble-shooting/ anomalies situations and exercises and/ or by analyzing online (or offline) the progress of registered trainee. The principle for VMPT development was not to use the A/C Data Package, expensive and complex, but to develop exhaustively the main actions to be performed on each of the procedures managed.

The instructor is provided with three complementary training modes to grade the level of difficulty of each procedure process:

• Automatic mode: the system describes the different actions to do. The procedure is displayed on the right side of the screen, detailed and commented.
• Guided Mode: The device requests trainee to perform actions by himself, the procedure is always present and allows the student to identify and follow all the steps.
• Free mode: The failure occurs, the trainee must confirm and manage processing of corresponding procedure to resolve it completely.

Each procedure starts in the cockpit of the aircraft to perform all the troubleshooting steps using the recommended tests. After confirmation, the trainee performs the disassembly and reassembly of impacted components in the A/C, using the tools at its disposal in the toolbox. For a given fault identified, other possible causes are presented to the trainee at the end of procedure to consider the full trouble shooting procedure.

VMPT devices developed by OPERANTIS do not come to replace existing tools, but perfectly match “PART 147", training center recurrent requests where the practical training was often complex to implement.

The success of these new multimedia training tools confirms Operantis position in the development of innovative and cost effective training devices for industry and reinforces its engagement to strengthen its presence in the international Aircraft Maintenance Training market.