Abstract
AT a meeting of the radio section of the Institution of Electrical Engineers on November 2, Mr. G. W. A. Dummer presented a paper entitled "Aids to Training – The Design of Radar Synthetic Training Devices for the R.A.F.". In this paper, the author describes how, during the War, work was conducted by the Trainer Design Group at the Telecommunications Research Establishment, in the development of equipment used by the Royal Air Force for training operators, navigators and controllers in radar techniques. With the introduction of each new radar system, a simple synthetic trainer was designed concurrently. As operational experience was gained on the equipment, a more complex crew trainer was developed ; this provided accurate presentation of a moving synthetic target or targets, and complete operational practice with a record of the trainee's errors. Approximately seventy different types of trainers were developed for the various radar systems, varying in scope from the provision of simple synthetic echoes to a complex device such as the reproduction on the ground of a complete night-fighter interception in the air. The fundamental principles necessary for the control of synthetic targets in two and three dimensions are discussed in the paper, the presentation of which was illustrated by an extended cinematograph film. With the end of the War the urgent necessity for training devices declined, and comparatively few trainers are being designed at the present time. In the discussion at the meeting, however, various speakers pointed out the need of this type of equipment for training the crews and operators of civil aviation services.
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Radar Training Devices. Nature 162, 989 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162989c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162989c0