FlightSafety International is upgrading its helicopter simulator graphics with its new Vital 1100 visual system and has already qualified it in several level-D machines and for use in other advanced training devices. Providing sharper resolution and a larger field of view, the new system has five times the computing power of its Vital X predecessor and significantly enhances training by providing realistic mission-specific imagery with improved scene content and greater levels of detail, says the training provider. Vital 1100 can process hundreds of millions of scene elements per second and simultaneously present them with environmental effects such as physics-based weather models of rain, snow and hail that develop and react as they do in the real world. The system also includes dynamic shadowing and enhanced shading effects.
Vital 1100’s increased resolution uses 20 million pixels to create a horizontal 200-degree field of view, improving target recognition and identification and scene resolution with high-definition microtexture and improving resolution at virtually any position or altitude, including hover/land maneuvering.
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