Research on simulation training system prototype for helicopter fire controlling operations

The complex situations during a fire disaster, such as high temperature, toxic gas and thick smoke, require helitack crew possess good professional skills. As an efficient and economic training system, virtual reality technology not only provide virtual scene to make crew members get familiar with working environment, but also provides professional skill training to achieve the desired objectives, such as increasing their training frequency, reducing training time, promoting training effects and so on. According to the requirements of helicopter special operation, a prototype is proposed in this paper, and a virtual training system based on some kind of helicopter was developed to validate the prototype's function, framework design and its capability for further development.