NetJets is the world leader in private aviation, having pioneered the fractional ownership model. Today, NetJets operates the largest and most diverse fleet of private jets, and safety is their top priority.

With an operation as large and fast-moving as NetJets, ground handling and maintenance events naturally carry a high level of risk. Learning by mistake is not an option and errors can lead to safety incidents, equipment damage, or costly delays. After gaining initial qualifications, crew members are required to retrain annually to ensure that they are kept prepared.

Our Aviation Maintenance & Ground Ops Simulation is a virtual reality representation of ground operation and maintenance procedures, helping to reduce costs associated with training. High fidelity 3-D models are used to recreate NetJets’ terminal in White Plains, NY. Our simulation has a maintenance, an operation, and a technical scenario, each with a training and evaluation mode.

The Tire Change scenario is one of the most common maintenance procedures. The user changes aircraft tires based on the reference manual and is scored accordingly.

The Marshalling scenario is the most common ground operation event. The user guides an incoming aircraft to park at a designated parking spot.

The Wing Growth scenario is an educational scenario for the user to look at how the aircraft can run into obstacles present around a tight runway.

The user starts in training mode with assistive visuals guiding them on the procedures and how to operate within VR. The evaluation mode has no visual guides and scores the user based on their performance and official procedure compliance.

The application is built using Unity game engine with SQLite as the back-end database to store user scores and login data. The VR headset is using VIVE Hub as a connecting layer to the local server.