New concept of dynamic flight simulator, Part I

The use of simulators for pilot training is extremely important due safety and economic factors. It is unthinkable nowadays to discard these advantages and use the conventional approach, practicing only in the real aircraft. For civilian aircraft, the use of hexapod architectures has been successful for more than 40 years, due fidelity of visual and motion systems. For military aircraft, the motion cues of simulators based on hexapod systems are not enough, due high accelerations achieved by combat aircraft. In this sense, it has been created the concept of Dynamic Flight Simulator (DFS), capable of achieving nine times the acceleration of gravity or even more. Unfortunately, these intensive motion cues cannot be achieved without side effects that constrain the behavior of the trainee pilot. This paper is the first of a series of papers that presents a new concept of flight simulator that copes with the problems of current generation Dynamic Flight Simulators.