Several law enforcement agencies recently completed Night Flight Concepts’s (Booth No. 1024) “Turn Green, Turn-Key” night-vision-goggle training. The agencies included the Atlanta Police Department and the Broward County (Fla.) Sheriff’s office for the MD 500E, and EC130 and EC135, respectively.
The Night Flight Concepts (NFC) training includes use of a virtual-terrain board (VTB). NFC was recently named the exclusive distributor of Night Readiness’s VTB for the civil and law enforcement sector in the U.S. NFC currently is the only U.S. civilian school using VTB 2.0, and last year it graduated 50 clients on the system. NFC president Adam Aldous said VTB is popular with customers in part because of its ability to show NVG image nuances, such as illumination light-level shadows, visual illusions, halo effects, weather, non-compatible and compatible lighting, the difference in appearance between dirt, asphalt and concrete roads, and railroad tracks. According to NFC, “The system lets you simulate all different types of terrain, and the looks you get over water, over snow and in high- and low-contrast settings. You don’t have to spend thousands of dollars learning this in the aircraft. You can simulate all this in the classroom.”
