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Aero Simulation, Inc. Exhibits Reconfigurable Simulator at 25th Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation, and Education Conference (I/ITSEC)

Tampa, Florida - December 5, 2003 - Aero Simulation, Inc., (ASI) today announced that the company’s Reconfigurable Cockpit Procedures Trainer (RCPT) for the USCG’s Aviation Training Center (ATC) in Mobile, Alabama was one of the “hits” of the annual I/ITSEC Conference and Exposition at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando. It was a rare time when the device’s seats did not contain interested pilots and training device experts. When delivered, the device will support initial, re-qualification and recurrent training in the service’s HH-60J and HH-65B rotary wing aircraft, however potential customers from each of the U.S. Armed Forces and foreign military attendees could easily see that the device was adaptable to virtually any type of aircraft.

“ASI appreciates the fact that the Coast Guard allowed the company to exhibit the device, which will be delivered to Mobile in early 2004,” said Joe Fernandez, President and CEO of ASI. “ATC Mobile has been one of our most important customers since 1996 and we look forward to this new opportunity to support this important Coast Guard activity.”

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At the heart of this training device are 9 commercially available Liquid Crystal Display (LCD) touchscreens used to display the photo-realistic animated instruments and provide the man/machine interface for the flight crew. These 20.1″ touchscreens are mounted in a special structure designed to position the screens in the form of the actual aircraft cockpit, complete with main instrument panel, overhead console, and center console. These touchscreens offer the latest in Surface Acoustic Wave (SAW) technology for high reliability, durability, and sensitivity to touch. Capacitive-type touchscreen technology is also available, if desired.

In addition to the touchscreens used to display the cockpit instrumentation, both the pilot and copilot crew stations are equipped with replicated aircraft seats as well as a simulated cyclic and collective at the pilot’s station to further enhance the fidelity of the device. These flight controls provide the pilot with control placement, tactile feel, and range of motion cues. The various switches on each of the flight control grips are actively monitored by the flight simulation and provide input to the flight simulation computer for accurate system modeling and behavior. Designed to be quickly re-configured between aircraft types, these grips can be easily removed and replaced with the type appropriate for the aircraft configuration being simulated.

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The core of the RCPT flight simulation is the reuse of both the HH-65 and HH-60 software baselines from the full-flight OFTs. Rehosted to a dual Intel Xeon PC running Redhat Linux 8.0, the RCPT shares all of the functionality and flight/aircraft system modeling as that of it’s respective full-flight OFT. This approach allows the end-user to maintain virtually the same software for both the OFT and the RCPT and implement software modifications, and enhancements to both devices with minimal effort.

ASI looks forward to further, in-depth exploration of specific requirements for RCPTs as a follow-on to discussions begun during I/ITSEC. For more information, to ask questions or to request pricing on the RCPT device, please contact ASI at our Tampa, Florida office.

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