Reiser Simulation and Training GmbH has successfully completed the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt (LBA) assessment of its H145 XR-SIM, with the German Federal Aviation Office officially declaring the XR-SIM “ready for training”.
DRF Luftrettung’s DRF Akademie has acquired the H145 XR-SIM in response to the growing demand for high-quality H145 training capacity. At Lufthansa Aviation Training’s (LAT’s) Frankfurt training centre, the system complements the existing Reiser H135/H145 Full-Flight Simulator already installed for DRF Luftrettung and extends the available training infrastructure with a new mixed reality capability.
Martin Keil, CTO at Reiser, said: “This successful assessment is much more than the acceptance of just another simulator. It shows that mixed reality is now moving from a promising technology into the field of authority-assessed professional aviation training. Pilots need cockpit realism, real controls, crew interaction and a training environment that can evolve flexibly with operational requirements. XR-SIM brings these elements together and opens a completely new playing field for scalable, realistic and certifiable training solutions.”
All stakeholders – regulatory, technical, operational and customer-side – were involved in the final assessment phase, contributing to the positive outcome and the readiness of the system for training use.
With the H145 XR-SIM now ready for training, LAT and the DRF Akademie are embarking on regular training operations. The responsibility for the simulator has transferred from the RST FSTD organisation to the LAT FSTD organisation, paving the way for operational training use at the Frankfurt training centre.
For Reiser, this milestone confirms the strategic role of XR-based simulation in the digital transformation of aviation training. Modern training demand is increasing, operational scenarios are becoming more dynamic, and traditional approaches alone cannot close the gap between realism, scalability, and flexibility. The XR-SIM demonstrates how mixed reality can bridge that gap – enabling adaptive, distributed and integrated training concepts that support future mission-readiness.
A Reiser spokesperson said: “The XR-SIM comprises a mixed reality training system designed to combine a realistic cockpit environment with a virtual outside world in a way that supports regulated, professional pilot and crew training. While pure virtual reality devices are flexible and scalable, they often lack crew interaction and physical realism. The key is to combine the flexibility and scalability of virtual environments with the physical realism, haptic interaction, and crew coordination of a real cockpit. This is precisely the gap addressed by Reiser’s XR-SIM – a full-scale, high-fidelity cockpit with real controls, embedded in a fully virtual outside world using Varjo’s mixed reality head-mounted display technology.”
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