ADANAIR has developed the Console Simulator for the Evaluation of the Air Navigation System, in which the necessary training can be provided to carry out the activity of inspecting the air navigation system, following the guidelines described by ICAO and the EU.
Taking the OACI guidelines in its various documents as a reference, ADANAIR has developed a generic console simulator for evaluating the Air Navigation System (SNA), with the innovative Adanfis software, which allows integration into a flight simulator or a traditional synthetic flight trainer, creating a real environment for the training and assessment of inspection and/or verification crews, capable of generating all kinds of fictitious situations.
With this type of solution, it is possible to train future inspection crews and/or recycle existing ones at very low costs, able to instruct crews in 90% of the situations that may arise in the development of the profession. It reduces the training time for new personnel by 70%. This represents a qualitative leap in the quality standards that a company can offer its clients.
Additionally, many of these simulated situations rarely occur in daily operations, keeping crews fresh in their duties and also allowing for the updating of ICAO procedures without degradation from infrequent use.
To complement the simulator, ADANAIR, with the help of a group of experts, has defined a course for flight evaluators, valid for inspectors or those performing inspection functions. This course certifies a high level of training through academic quality control, featuring specialized instructors in each field with extensive and verifiable experience in the activities taught. This course consists of a theoretical part and a practical part. The latter is conducted in this innovative console simulator, presenting real profiles in virtual flights, as well as potential anomalies that may occur in reality.
It should be noted that the course is common for pilots and operators of the onboard system, in terms of theory. The practical part is conducted in this console simulator for the evaluation of the Air Navigation System (SNA) with a flight simulator, in which the positions of the evaluating pilot and the operator of the onboard system are identified separately, just as they are in reality. This is made possible because the simulator consists of an aircraft cockpit and a console operator station. However, it is possible to conduct the simulation individually and separately for the pilot and the operator.
During simulator hours, students are trained not only in standard profiles but also in simulating anomalous situations that may occur in real flight. In this sense, it is the first complete simulation environment that allows practicing CRM crew vs. operators, conducting exercises in a console simulator for evaluating the Air Navigation System over radio aids, visual aids, and associated procedures, both civilian and military.
It allows for the simulation of evaluation profiles for practically any airport in the world and the recreation of any scenario, with a large number of events that can occur in real flight. This enables simulated trials of actual work areas, with the significant advantages that this entails.
Similarly, it allows for weather combinations, incorporates other traffic, communication with controllers, ground, and crew during the exercise, and provides a wide catalog of errors where situations can be reproduced that, otherwise, might never be experienced by the crew.
All these tools developed by ADANAIR allow highly experienced personnel in the sector to enjoy this simulated experience and rate the almost real recreation of the simulation environment very positively, enabling the reproduction and study of flights and data in a safe environment. This makes it possible to strongly reinforce and demonstrate compliance with the guidelines set by ICAO and the EU, which state that flight inspection crew members must be experts in their individual fields, possess solid knowledge, experience in procedures and flight inspection requirements, and be able to work as a team.
The console simulator for the evaluation of the Air Navigation System consists of a module that can read from a previously adapted flight simulator or reproduce flights autonomously, displaying the records of the corresponding radio aids. The simulator incorporates an advanced Syllabus management system, where each company can establish its lessons according to its own procedures, allowing for control of students and missions/exercises completed. It can train an operator while pilots are conducting a flight under specific conditions and locations, using specific aids.
The Adanfis software features a control panel managed from a tablet, where the console instructor can manage different exercises, make annotations, launch lessons, etc. It allows for the playback of a catalog of errors by radio assistance and maneuver, with an intuitive interface that enables the assignment of errors to lessons, which grants the ability to create a complete and customizable syllabus with different levels of difficulty. These errors in real practice are very difficult to detect without prior training, as some of them do not frequently manifest and, in some cases, are very subtle. In the simulator, one can train for LOC, GS, C-VOR, D-VOR MKB, DME, Aerovías, NDB, GONIO, Visual Aids, Associated Procedures, RADAR, GCA, , Communications, and GNSS.
