Image Generators
Directly controlled by the simulator host, CAE's image generators, such as the CAE Tropos™-6000, process the synthetic environments and drive the display system to ensure fully-correlated visual, motion, radar, flight instrument and real-time responses to every pilot action or instructor command.
CAE Tropos™-6000
CAE Tropos™-6000 is the latest evolution of CAE’s visual solution for the civil market. The CAE Tropos-6000 image generator combines CAE’s industry-leading image quality and true fidelity with the latest commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) graphics hardware. In addition, the CAE Tropos-6000 image generator leverages next-generation liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) projector technology, to deliver unprecedented visual realism, all the while exceeding the requirements of Level D certification.
CAE Tropos-6000 further enhances the experience of pilot training through extensive use of advanced weather effects, satellite imagery, dynamic airport environments, and a world database. Full binary compatibility with previous generation CAE Tropos™ databases is provided to protect the investment made in those databases.
The ever-increasing performance of commercial graphics hardware combined with CAE’s unmatched experience with real-time simulation software and database development makes the CAE Tropos-6000 image generator the new visual standard for pilot training.
Enhanced Vision Systems (EVS) that provide FLIR imagery to pilots of certain aircraft are supported through CAE Tropos-6000’s comprehensive thermal and sensor models. EVS databases are derived from the primary visual databases to provide a fully correlated view to the pilots.
CAE offers two applications that emulate views from cameras positioned on the exterior of certain aircraft:
Ground Manoeuvre Camera System (GMCS)
designed for the B777-300
Taxi Aid Camera System (TACS)
designed for the A340-600
Each application simulates outputs from cameras positioned to view gear assemblies, and displays a composite image on a split screen within the cockpit. The views are synchronized in a deterministic real time environment.
Basic representation of the landing gear assemblies, and their relative position to taxiways and runways, provides the visual cues required for ground taxiing training. Basic effects include tire rotation animation, nose wheel orientation, nose wheel and gear light illumination, runway lights, contaminants and weather effects.
Full terrain correlation with the out-of-the-window scenery is ensured because the same databases are used by the GMCS as by the out-the-window image generator. Objects such as taxiways, markings and pushback trucks are included in the displayed image. CAE’s GMCS and TACS provide high-performance, cost-effective solutions.
