Video games helped Frasca put ‘real’ traffic into its Bell 206 sims
Frasca International is offering a video gamer’s delight here at Heli-Expo: an opportunity to fly a Bell 206 simulator with a friend down the hall.

Frasca International is offering a video gamer’s delight here at Heli-Expo: an opportunity to fly a Bell 206 simulator with a friend down the hall.

Visitors to the Frasca booth (No. 1238) can try out the company’s TruFliteH simulator while other virtual pilots at the Bell Helicopter booth (No. 1333) fly the MentorH simulator, linked together through a common network. Bob Summers, project manager at Frasca, said helicopter customers have longed for the ability to fly with “real” traffic, but the processors required to make this feasible on a network have not been adequate until very recently, when video game technology brought this capability into the mainstream.