RU2662302C1 - Rescue helicopter training simulator - Google Patents

Abstract

FIELD: simulators; training.

SUBSTANCE: invention relates to training simulator equipment (TSE) for the training of search and rescue helicopter crews to actions necessary to rescue people being in distress on the water. Helicopter rescue simulator contains a helicopter cockpit layout and a swimming pool. Model of the helicopter cockpit includes a winch control panel, an acoustic speaker for simulating noise accompanying the operation of engines and helicopter propeller blades, spotlight and searchlight for night-time trainings. In the pool there is a wave generator simulating sea waves, and on the side of the pool wind turbines are installed, creating a concomitant wind of the necessary force.

EFFECT: improved crew training.

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Description

The invention relates to training equipment (TCB) for the training of crews of search and rescue helicopters for the actions necessary to save people in distress on the water. In Internet resources, TCB data is commonly called Helicopter Rescue Training Simulator (HRTS).

A well-known rescue flight simulator (International Patent Publication No. WO 2010015716 dated 02/11/2010, AIR RESCUE SIMULATOR, Int. C1 .: G09B 9/46, Applicant: Bergwacht Bayern [DE], including a helicopter cockpit model (or a real helicopter body), which equipped with a cargo winch and suspended on a crane mechanism (for example, a gantry or gantry crane, a beam crane) above the mock-ups of various objects (burning buildings, mountainous terrain, water area, etc.) that can be placed both indoors and in the open air.

To simulate the air flows created by the helicopter rotors, a cylindrical frame with several wind generators is installed on the upper side of the helicopter cockpit layout. Crew members are equipped with helmets with micro-telephone headsets for voice conversations on the helicopter communication system. In addition, the flight simulator provides for the possibility of mixing various background noises into communication channels, such as wind noise, noise from working engines and helicopter rotor blades, etc.

The main disadvantage of this technical solution is the need to use a crane mechanism to move the layout of the helicopter cockpit above the ground (water).

Also known is a helicopter simulator (RF Patent No. 2294019 dated 02/20/2007; HELICOPTER CREW SIMULATOR WITH EXTERNAL SUSPENSION BOD, IPC 2006.01: G09B 9/46; 2 cockpit, workplace of 3 instructors, simulator of 4 cockpit environments for pilots and a simulator of 5 cockpit conditions for the operator, a computing complex 6 connected to all of the above blocks. The cockpit, cargo compartment and instructor's workplace are equipped with Worn devices providing voice communications between pilots operated external suspension (VI) and trainer simulator. Furthermore, cargo cabin simulator installed on a movable platform, simulating acceleration effects, acting on the operator VI.

The workplace of the VP operator is equipped with a set of equipment that allows you to control the VP. At the same time, the airspace operator, through an intercom, makes voice communication with the pilots who are piloting the helicopter, and through the opening of the side door of the cargo compartment against the underlying surface with the help of glasses with polaroid glasses (an additional visualization channel only for the airspace operator) observes the transported cargo.

In this technical solution, the movement of the helicopter mockup above the water surface is provided (instead of the crane mechanism) by dynamically changing the synthesized images that are generated by cabin simulator units for pilots and for the operator.

The main disadvantages of this simulator (belonging to the class of computer simulators) are the inability to operate the airspace operator with real physical objects (various loads or a person in distress on the water), as well as the possibility of creating complicated training conditions, for example, by exposing the airspace operator to strong air a flow simulating the operation of rotors of a helicopter.

The closest analogue in execution (in terms of the set of essential features and the relationships between them), which provides fairly safe training and is accepted as a prototype of the invention, is a simulator for training the winch operator of a rescue helicopter (European Patent Publication No. JP 2000305446 of November 2, 2000, Japan Patent " HOIST TRAINING DEVICE ", Int. C1 .: G09B 9/00, G09B 9/46, Applicant: Mitsubishi Precision Co Ltd. [JP]), including (see Fig. 1 of the claimed invention) a helicopter cabin model 106 with a cargo winch operator 107 and remote control swan 108 th, as well as a pilot under instruction 112 for the inspection and control 113; a pool 101 with a dummy of a drowning person 102 (601) and a modeling computer 114 (602).

A cargo winch is located above the inlet-outlet side opening in the prototype of the helicopter cabin 106, including a lifting rescue device 111 on the software cable and electric hoist 109, which is connected by cable to the control panel of the winch 108 (this connection is shown in the figures of the Japan patent “HOIST TRAINING DEVICE” - not shown, but it follows from the description of the simulator’s functioning), as well as a wind generator 115, simulating the air flow from the rotors of the helicopter, connected via cable to a modeling computer 114 (602) - this connection in the figures of the patent also not shown, but follows from the description of the operation of the simulator.

In the simulator under consideration, when practicing the rescue operation to raise a person in distress from the water, while simulating the helicopter moving above the water surface in the pool, instead of moving the helicopter compartment 106 (usually using a crane mechanism), the corresponding “opposite” model is moved drowning person 102 (601) on the surface of the water in the pool according to the voice commands of the operator of a freight winch 107 to a pilot-instructor 112 according to one of the following two options.

1st option. The pilot-instructor 112, using the control and control panel 113 and the modeling computer 114, controls the electromechanical system consisting of cables 103a, 103b, and 103c, blocks 104a, 104b and 104c and drive motors 105a, 105v and 105c and provides the necessary movement of the drowning model human 102 on the surface of the water in the pool (see Fig. 1A).

2nd option. The pilot-instructor 112, using the control and monitoring panel 113, the modeling computer 602 and the radio transmitter 603, directly controls the model of a drowning person 601, in which a radio receiver with an antenna, a control controller, a compressed air source, and an air-jet engine with a set of controlled electromagnetic valves and air nozzles providing the necessary movement of this model on the surface of the water in the pool (see Fig. 1b).

The disadvantages of this simulator include:

- a sufficiently high complexity of modeling the process of moving the dummy dummy model on the water surface in the pool;

- some discrepancy between the reality of the operations of scribbling and “securing” a lifting rescue device, which is an elastic ring on a cable, to a drowning man’s dummy, partially contributing to the instilling of certain elements of false skills;

- the lack of exposure to students with powerful background noise simulating the acoustic environment from working engines and helicopter rotor blades;

- the lack of the ability to create complicated training conditions (sea waves and accompanying wind, night time);

- lack of ability to monitor the actions of trainees.

The aim of the invention is to expand the functionality of the simulator rescue helicopter.

This goal is achieved by the fact that in the simulator of a rescue helicopter containing a model of the helicopter cockpit with a control panel winch; pool and modeling computer; above the inlet-outlet side opening in the prototype of the helicopter cockpit there is a cargo winch, including a lifting rescue device on a cable and electric hoist, which is connected via a cable to the winch control panel, as well as the first wind generator simulating the air flow from the helicopter rotors connected by a cable with a modeling computer, a video camera, a spotlight, a searchlight, an acoustic speaker and a wave generator were introduced, and a second and third wind generators were installed on the side of the pool; The modeling computer using the appropriate cables is connected to the video camera, acoustic speaker, second and third wind generators and wave generator.

Moreover, a video camera, a searchlight, a searchlight and an acoustic speaker are part of the helicopter cockpit layout, and a wave generator is part of the pool.

The essence of the invention lies in the fact that in the proposed simulator of a rescue helicopter in order to maximize the training conditions to the real ones, an acoustic speaker was introduced into the layout of the helicopter cockpit to simulate the noise accompanying the operation of the engines and rotor blades of the helicopter, a spotlight and spotlight for use in night training , a wave generator simulating sea waves is placed in the pool, and additional wind generators are installed on the side of the pool, creating the accompanying wind necessary with ly.

The invention is illustrated graphic materials.

In FIG. 1 is an image of two main figures of the prototype (European Patent Publication No. JP 2000305446 dated 02.11.2000 Japan Patent HOIST TRAINING DEVICE).

In FIG. 2 presents a functional structural diagram of the proposed simulator rescue helicopter.

In the Appendix to the description of the invention, Figures 1-3 are summarized.

Figure 1 shows a photo of a Wave Ball type wave generator in a pool.

Figure 2 shows a photo of wind generators on the side of the pool.

Figure 3 shows a general view of one of the practical implementations of a rescue helicopter simulator manufactured by Survival Systems Limited (Canada).

According to FIG. 2, a rescue helicopter simulator comprises a helicopter cockpit model including a winch control panel, a cargo winch, consisting of a lifting rescue device on a cable and electric hoist, a video camera, a spotlight, a searchlight, an acoustic speaker, a first wind generator; pool with a wave generator; second and third wind generators and a modeling computer.

The winch control panel is connected using electric cable, and the simulating computer is connected to the video camera, acoustic speaker, first, second and third wind generators and wave generator using appropriate cables.

The proposed simulator rescue helicopter is used for its intended purpose as follows.

Before starting the training, the trainees take their jobs (flight engineer and paramedic - in the layout of the helicopter cockpit; a person in distress on the water - in the pool), and the instructor behind the terminals (monitors and controls) of the modeling computer.

Then, the flight engineer, using the winch control panel, launches the lifting rescue device on the cable (for example, a bucket seat or universal seat) into the pool water. A person in distress on the water swims up to the rescue lifting device and is “fixed” on it, after which the flight engineer lifts the rescued person from the water to the side of the “helicopter” (model of the helicopter cockpit).

If a person in distress on the water, according to external (visual) signs, has lost strength or is in an unconscious state, the flight engineer descends to the surface of the water in a paramedic's lifesaving rescue device, which “attaches” this person to himself. After that, the flight engineer lifts the rescued person along with the paramedic in a lifting rescue device aboard the “helicopter”.

To complicate the training conditions, the instructor can use the modeling computer to turn on the first wind generator (to simulate the air flow from the rotors of the helicopter) and the acoustic speaker (to simulate the noise accompanying the work of the engines and rotor blades of the helicopter), and to maximize the approximation of the training conditions to real - a wave generator in the pool (see Figure 1 in the Appendix to the description of the invention) and the second and third wind generators on the side of the pool (see Figure 2 in the Appendix to the description of acquisition), which ensure the creation in the pool of the necessary levels of water waves and wind power.

When simulating night conditions, when the simulator room is darkened, the flight engineer and paramedic to search and illuminate a person in distress on the water, have the opportunity to use a searchlight and spotlight.

Using a video camera transmitting the image to the monitor of a modeling computer, the instructor has the opportunity to observe the actions of the flight engineer and paramedic, as well as record the progress of the training in the external memory device of the modeling computer.

Thus, in the simulator of a rescue helicopter, both flight engineers and paramedics of a search and rescue helicopter of the Ka-27ps type, as well as trainees in distress on the water, are trained.

Industrial applicability of the invention is determined by the fact that the proposed simulator of a rescue helicopter can be made on the basis of well-known components and technological equipment.

A general view of the proposed simulator of a rescue helicopter, planned by the Applicant for practical implementation in a number of Russian specialized rescue training centers, is shown in Figure 3 in the Appendix to the description of the invention.

The proposed simulator is designed to carry out effective practical training:

- Flight crew of naval aviation of the Navy of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation;

- airborne paratroopers and marines;

- Flight personnel of the Civil Aviation of the Russian Federation;

- cadets of maritime educational institutions and water transport;

- personnel of oil and gas producing offshore platforms;

- crews and passengers of any aircraft making day and night flights over the water surface.

Based on the foregoing and based on the results of the patent information search, we believe that the proposed simulator of the rescue helicopter meets the criteria of “Novelty”, “Inventive step” and “Industrial applicability” and can be protected by a RF patent for an invention.

Claims (2)

1. A simulator of a rescue helicopter, comprising a model of a helicopter cockpit with a winch control panel; pool and modeling computer; above the inlet-outlet side opening in the prototype of the helicopter cockpit there is a cargo winch, including a lifting rescue device on a cable and electric hoist, which is connected via a cable to the winch control panel, as well as the first wind generator simulating the air flow from the helicopter rotors connected by a cable with a modeling computer, characterized in that a video camera, a spotlight, a searchlight, an acoustic speaker and a wave generator are inserted into it, and a second and third wind are installed on the pool side generators; The modeling computer using the appropriate cables is connected to the video camera, acoustic speaker, second and third wind generators and wave generator. 2. The simulator according to claim 1, characterized in that the video camera, spotlight, searchlight and acoustic speaker are part of the helicopter cockpit layout, and the wave generator is part of the pool.

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