Ukraine’s indominable rise from the ashes

The more you sweat in training the less you bleed in war. This quote, much loved by military instructors the world over, is equally applicable to other demanding and high-risk pursuits. Training and more specifically, realistic training is essential to achieving operational excellence!

With this philosophy in mind, high-fidelity simulation has become the de facto standard for those organisations looking to achieve the highest levels of operational readiness, capability and safety.

Simulation leverages experience and technology with ARFF Operator training simulators. These systems incorporate the very latest innovations from the military and mining sectors and consequently represent a new standard of realism and efficacy in the ARFF training space.

Using traditional training methods to achieve anything close to the level of realism possible with such simulators, would require the interruption of airport operations, involvement of scores of personnel and expose novice operators to real fire and moving equipment, all of which introduce significant cost and risk into the process. Simulators on the other hand, have close to zero operating costs, require just one instructor and can immerse a student in virtually ANY situation. At the click of a button, locations, aircraft, weather, time-of-day and emergency conditions can be altered and experienced. Repeatably, objectively and in perfect safety.

By so greatly reducing the burden on operational ARFF equipment for training tasks, vehicle wear and tear is reduced, fuel costs are lowered and readiness improves, all while operators become ever more adept at confronting their hazardous and vital role.

Finally, a wonderful by product of simulator based training is the reduction of both harmful fire and vehicle emissions as well as extinguishing agents, all serving to reduce environmental impact without compromising training.

Featured in International Fire Buyer – August 2022

David Cooke: VP at ThoroughTec Simulation