rendered on the fl y in the simulator,
rather than having to preprocess it
fi rst,” says Adducchio. “As technology
and processing improves, I think that’s
something we’re likely to see.”
Sailing the indoor sea
When the Navy was designing Battle
Stations 21, the training complex at
Great Lakes, Ill., that includes the
USS Trayer, it wanted to boost the
realism factor — what sim developers
call high fi delity — as much as pos-
sible. To accomplish that, it turned
to the entertainment industry. De-
signers from Universal Studios and
Disney came up with the idea of a
simulated warship incorporating vari-
ous scenarios to test sailors’ mettle.
With smoke, fi re, fl ashing lights, and
the sounds of an attack, trainees are
placed in a seemingly perilous situa-
tion in a way that ensures their safety.
“In one scenario, sailors are put
into a repair locker and the door
jams shut,” says Benn Aaronson,
Battle Stations 21 program manager
at NAVAIR Training Systems Divi-
sion in Orlando, Fla. “They have to
climb up a ladder well and fi nd their
way out amid the lights, smoke, and
noise. In another, a compartment is
fl ooding and they have to move am-
munition out. It’s very realistic.”
Aaronson stresses that the Trayer’s
scenarios, no matter how seemingly
dangerous, are tightly controlled for
safety’s sake. That’s the whole point
of virtual training, in fact — to put pi-
lots, sailors, and soldiers in what looks
and feels like a deadly situation before
they have to face it in real life. But will
it ever replace actual fi eld training?
“You won’t fi nd anyone in the train-
ing community who says that virtual
training should replace real training
exercises,” says Pulford. “I think it will
always be a precursor to live training,
to let us know what warfi ghters need
before they go into a live-fi re event.
That way they can enter it at a much
higher level of profi ciency.” MO
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