The ICARUS Device is a smart, view-limiting device made of a PDLC film that the pilot wears in front of their eyes, either clamped onto a headset or clipped into a flight helmet. [Courtesy: ICARUS]
Key Takeaways:
The ICARUS Smart View Limiting Device is a high-tech training tool for instrument pilot trainees, designed to enhance awareness of instrument conditions.
Instructors use an app to control a wearable polymer film that gradually reduces or instantly occludes visibility, simulating realistic IFR experiences in actual aircraft.
Invented after an aviation accident, the ICARUS device is now used globally by both military and private sectors, available on all seven continents.
Instrument pilot trainees on all seven continents now have the opportunity to improve the quality of their instruction using the ICARUS Smart View Limiting Device.
Nick Sinopoli, the inventor of the ICARUS Device, a high-tech view limiting device, knew this only too well after losing a friend in an aviation accident in 2016.
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Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 24 years and a CFI for more than 20 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
