Reinhard Braunstingl and Iona Koglbauer in the cockpit of the wide-body aircraft simulator at TU Graz.
The Flight Simulation Research Platform at TU Graz makes it possible to scale the virtual heights with a wide-body aircraft and a light aircraft. Modern wide-body aircraft are both safe and highly automated. Only in very rare cases do pilots have to fly manually, but they still have to be prepared for it. And the demands they have to meet are constantly rising due to increased air traffic - a fact which holds true for wide-body and light aircraft alike. "And this is precisely where the focus of our research activities comes in. With the help of our flight simulators, pilots can train for situations and manoeuvres that would be unthinkable in real life," explains Reinhard Braunstingl from the Institute of Mechanical Engineering at TU Graz, and head of the Flight Simulation Research Platform. A highly experienced pilot and flight instructor himself, Reinhard Braunstingl has been working for over 20 years in the development of flight simulators.
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