A live mindset in Live Virtual Constructive simulations: a spin-up for future LVC air combat training

Sanna Aronsson, Henrik Artman, Mikael Mitchell, Robert Ramberg and Rogier Woltjer

The Journal of Defense Modeling and Simulation, 2023, vol. 20, issue 4, 447-465

Abstract: Combining Live, Virtual, and Constructive (LVC) aircraft in the same training scenario holds promise for developing and enhancing fighter pilot training. The simulator study reported here builds on joint pilot-researcher co-design work of beyond visual range LVC training (LVC-T) scenarios to provide training value to pilots in both Live and Virtual aircraft. One fourship of pilots simulated Live entities by acting under peacetime restrictions, while other pilots acted as during regular Virtual training. The objective was to investigate pilots’ reflections on the implications of LVC-T and on the methodology used to provide hands-on experience of a plausible LVC-T scenario. The purpose is to inform the design and use of future LVC in air combat training from the perspective of training value. Results indicate that pilots are positive toward the LVC scenario design, especially the dynamics that a large-scale scenario brings to training of decision making. They indicate a high degree of presence, the need for specific regulations to enforce flight safety, and that restrictions put on the simulated Live entities had implications for the other pilots. In addition to regular Live (L) and simulator (V + C) training, LVC-T may enhance pilots’ repertoires and decision-making patterns.

Keywords: Live Virtual Constructive (LVC); simulation methodology; training value; scenario design (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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DOI: 10.1177/15485129221106204

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