The Full Flight Simulation system at Royal Naval Air Station (RNAS) Culdrose, where training facilities for the RN Sea King helicopter are based, recently underwent a visual system technology upgrade to ensure that the Commando Helicopter Force (CHF) and Airborne Surveillance and Control (ASaC) crews tasked with supporting operations in Afghanistan, had access to state-of-the-art and realistic vistas from the pilot’s cockpit.

Thales UK, were called in, and identified a number of reasons for recommending Christie’s new Matrix StIM™ — an advanced LED-based DLP projection system that provides the unique capabilities to support normal visual operations and stimulation of aircrew Night Vision Goggles (NVG) simultaneously. This advanced capability offered a solution to a critical gap in the night-vision training syllabus for the RN Sea King aircrews.