Digital Reporter Sam Quine has a go on flight simulators at the Farnborough Air Show 2024 including a simulator for BAE System's Typhoon fighter jet.
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00:00Hi, my name is Sam Coyne, Digital Reporter for the Lancashire Post and Blackpool Gazette
00:05and I'm here at the Farnborough Airshow 2024.
00:08I'm stood outside the BAE Systems hangar.
00:11Now in the hangar they've got a number of different displays to do with their latest technology and projects
00:19such as Project Odyssey, which is an AI project looking at human behaviour and all to do with recon.
00:27But I'm about to head in and take part in two different flight simulators,
00:33one of which is to do with their Typhoon fighter jet.
00:36Okay, so we've got our pilot over here, our willing volunteer.
00:41You might recognise some of this terrain as Lancashire.
00:44If we get approach to our port in sight, we can get you landing on our runway.
00:49So, if you see just to your right, you see the Blackpool Tower down front
00:54and if you see in front of you on the runway, it's going to give you a little bit of instruction on how to fly.
01:01Effectively, it's the future for the Typhoon.
01:04We've developed this technology as a way to take them out.
01:09We've got three small displays, one large area and one small display.
01:15I'm coming to land.
01:16So, I'm going to take you down.
01:17Yeah, that's involved, isn't it?
01:19Yeah, I'm just going to manage your problem for you.
01:21Basically, we need that in there.
01:23And then you have to basically guide the flight.
01:34And then I was told to taxi to the terminal.
01:37My turn and my wing to the whole terminal.
01:42Well, you know what? Not everyone's going to be upon on their first go.
01:49So, just turn left for me again a little bit.
01:53And if you just look down and around the cockpit, you'll see that you've got all the cockpit switches that we actually have in the Hawk itself.
01:59And when we calibrate those hands correctly, you can actually manipulate all those switches.
02:04And you can change the display on the screen.
02:07So, do that again with the switches.
02:09See that left-hand screen?
02:11It's got the X on it.
02:13Yes, yes.
02:14The big screen, that's the big screen.
02:16Yeah, I've turned it up.
02:18Yeah, so just lock your finger on the X and menu.
02:20So, they can see that.
02:22Oh, yeah.
02:25That's changing the display.
02:27Turn your way around and we'll go and find Lina again.
02:32Yeah, so if you turn left, that's it.
02:35Keep turning and I'll tell you when to roll out.