The Boeing Company

Antony R Hunt

Jonathan Nicholas Hotra

Leighton J Carr

Systems and methods are disclosed for virtual reality (VR) aircraft test and training environments that simultaneously leverage a high quality immersive environment engine and an operational flight program (OFP) running on a virtual flight management computer (FMC) by using a communication channels that couples the immersive VR environment engine with the virtual FMC. Existing investment in flight simulators, test environment core components, and any of navigation simulation, data link simulation, air traffic control simulation, and flight visualization modules can be advantageously employed to provide high-quality, realistic testing and training capability.

Virtual reality with virtualization in trainers and test environments

Techniques for testing a physical hardware system by executing hardware system application software on a corresponding emulated proxy physical hardware system in a proxy virtual machine are presented. The techniques include: obtaining a proxy physical hardware system that matches aspects of the physical hardware system; constructing, in a virtualization system, the proxy virtual machine; emulating, using the virtualization system, hardware components of the proxy physical hardware system in the proxy virtual machine; executing a hardware abstraction software layer in the proxy virtual machine; executing, by the hardware abstraction software layer of the virtualization system, the hardware system application software in the proxy virtual machine on the proxy physical hardware system using a memory map at least one adapter; and testing, using the virtualization system, the physical hardware system by the executing the hardware system application software in the proxy virtual machine on the proxy physical hardware system.

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Longmont, CO, United States of America

Antony R Hunt