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Red 6 LVC visual solution shows promise

29th April 2020 - 10:30 GMT | by Dr Joetey Attariwala in Vancouver

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One issue with the numerous airborne LVC trials and evaluations that have taken place over the past decade or so has been the inability to generate safely and realistically targets that appear in visual range for the pilot.

According to Dan Robinson, co-founder and CEO of Red 6: ‘The problem with LVC is that it’s a 50% solution because it’s a beyond-visual-range solution only.

‘It absolutely represents the future in how we should train synthetically, but as soon as you transition to within visual range - ten nautical miles and in - the whole training system collapses because as soon

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