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Sorry, of course the title should have been Australian Defence Forces Simulators.

I didn't add them up, but there is a fair bit of work there for Lockheed Martin, CAE, L3Harris, Thales, Boeing, Flight Safety International etc...

Lockheed C-130J Hercules medium transport
12 aircraft 1 simulator Lockheed
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/10012/cae's-c_130j-simulator-scores-high-(may-16).html

Boeing C-17 Globemaster heavy transport
8 aircraft, 1 Simulator Flight Safety International
https://boeing.mediaroom.com/2009-05-11-Boeing-Delivers-Royal-Australian-Air-Force-C-17-Aircrew-Training-System

Airbus KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport
7 aircraft, 1 simulator CAE
https://www.cae.com/news-events/press-releases/royal-australian-air-force-kc-30a-full-flight-and-mission-simulator-certifi/

AgustaWestland AW139 SAR helicopter
6 (contracted with CHC Helicopter)[11]

Fleet Air Arm (RAN)
SH-60 Seahawk
24 aircraft, 2 Simulators CAE

Eurocopter EC135
15 aircraft, 3 Simulators Thales
(Shared with Army)
https://www.facebook.com/Scramblemagazine/posts/australia-retires-the-bell-429-globalrangeron-18-april-2019-the-royal-australian/2750102208349629/

Australian Army

Airbus Helicopters ARH Tiger
22 Aircraft, 1 simulator (double) Thales
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/article-view/release/88495/australian-army-tiger-helicopter-simulator-accredited.html

NHIndustries MRH-90 Taipan
41 (+6 Navy) aircraft, 2 simulators CAE
https://www.naval-technology.com/projects/mrh-90-taipan-multi-role-helicopter-mrh/
https://www.helis.com/database/news/mrh90_au_simul2/

UH-60 Black Hawk
20 aircraft, 1 Simulator CAE
https://helihub.com/2011/02/17/upgraded-black-hawk-simulator-enters-service-for-australian-army/

Boeing CH-47F Chinook
10 aircraft, 1 Simulator Kratos
https://helihub.com/2019/04/03/australian-defence-force-issues-final-acceptance-of-kratos-training/

We learned on 8th April “Our engagement with RAAF was extended to a two-year contract and enabled full visibility of the capability of the technology and the utility of the output data and visualisations to all or most of the flying training units across the ADF,” Patrick Nolan, General Manager of Aviation at Seeing Machines, said to ADM.
https://www.australiandefence.com.au/news/unique-eye-tracking-system-installed-on-hawk-simulators

So what does that mean in practice? Based on Wikipedia and some searching...

Pilatus PC-21 Initial training
49 aircraft, 7 simulators Lockheed
https://www.lockheedmartin.com/en-au/products/air-5428-pilot-training-system.html
Lockheed Martin led Pilatus and Hawker Pacific in Team 21… was awarded a contract worth A$1.2 billion for the 49 aircraft and seven flight simulators – five of which will be located at East Sale and a further two at Pearce – plus five years’ support. https://www.monch.com/mpg/news/mtsc/5097-avalon-raaf-pc-21-training.html

BAe Hawk 127 lead-in fighter trainer
33 aircraft 3 simulators CAE
"CAE has also delivered three Hawk full-mission simulators to the Royal Australian Air Force
(two at Williamtown and one at Pearce)."
https://www.cae.com/media/media-center/documents/DM055_Hawk_GBTS_EN_Oct2017.pdf

Beechcraft King Air 350 navigation & specialised trainer (multi-engine)
8 Aircraft, 1 simulator - CAE
https://www.cae.com/news-events/press-releases/royal-australian-air-force-surpasses-5000-hours-of-king-air-350-simulator-t

Eurocopter EC135 Training helicopter
15 aircraft, 3 Simulators Thales
(Shared with Army)
https://www.facebook.com/Scramblemagazine/posts/australia-retires-the-bell-429-globalrangeron-18-april-2019-the-royal-australian/2750102208349629/

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After training there is “conversion” as pilots learn to fly specific aircraft, thes. I have listed most of these below, including details of the simulators.

Lockheed Martin F-35A Lightning II multirole fighter
72 on order - 33 delivered, 4 of planned 10 simulators operational - Lockheed
https://sldinfo.com/2020/07/australian-f-35-training-upgrading-the-simulators-with-australian-domain-knowledge/

Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet strike fighter
24 Aircraft , 6 simulators
(2 tactical operations flight trainers, 2 low-cost trainers, 2 integrated visual environment maintenance trainers). L3Harris
https://www.flightglobal.com/australia-receives-super-hornet-simulators/99797.article

McDonnell Douglas/GAF F/A-18A and F/A-18B Hornet multirole fighter
54 / 15(A/B Variants) (to be replaced by F-35A)
3 Simulators Raytheon - now L3Harris
http://www.defense-aerospace.com/articles-view/release/3/39865/raytheon-signs-raaf-simulator-contract-(june-3).html

P8A Poseidon Maritime patrol
12 aircraft, 1 simulator Boeing
https://www.shephardmedia.com/news/training-simulation/raaf-receives-p-8a-poseidon-simulator-training-sys/
...

Whatif, well Martin has lost the Sparkle in his eyes.

Seeing Machines DMS seems to be unique (based on their patents) in that the various LEDs only need to illuminate for a short period of time, but specifically different LEDs are illuminated at different times, so that the sensor can see Dark Pupils, and eyes with a glint illuminated from the left and from the right and if required, illuminated at different levels of brightness.

Whereas, lesser systems flash all LEDs at the same instant. From some of the videos I have watched, the pattern of illumination may even hiccup due to the background light changing (don't quite me on that yet)

Now this may change in the future. The Magna rear-view mirror appears to have 3 led sources with the camera off-set to the driver's side. But this is to provide illumination for the whole cabin and we don't yet know how they are illuminated.

Sorry Terry, did Vorsprung durch Technik lose their way? Where is the DMS? Were these guys and Porche not in the front row signing up Smart Eye?

Glandore, Self,
The first few still photos and videos that I saw with the EQS DMS LEDs had me concerned. They were both lit at the same time? But, with further videos available, I am now relaxed. It was a figment of modern cameras that was specifically designed in to correctly show the human perceived brightness of visible LEDs that are intermittently lit to control brightness.

https://www.ovt.com/led-flicker-mitigation-automotive-applications

It is a bit trickier to see the lights in the F-150. But I found them in this B-Roll

https://media.ford.com/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en.relatedmedia.viewmore.video.html/content/fordmedia/fna/us/en/news/2021/04/14/ford-mother-of-all-road-trips-bluecruise-hands-free-driving/jcr:content/rightRailPar/relatedmedia_2367.html
between 0:58 and 1:03 you an see both LEDs, for the left, look at the black plastic of the door next to the A-Pillar. It is often hidden by his cheek. The right LED is above the screen in the central console to the right - above the picture of the truck. I believe that the camera is on the left side above the screen - but we shouldn't be able to see it - or I suppose it could be on the instrument panel

Brick,
Ford have had lane centring, cruise control for a while. But putting it all together with Seeing Machines for DMS and all of the road mapping data - that is what happened in Palo Alto.

No I made that connection at the time. We were then told that the OAX8000 did not contain Occula. Which emphasises how incredible it must be that OmniVision would effectively say that their newly launched OAX8000 was already outdated

Philtronic/S20thirty, I think it is time that you changed names again. Seeing2020's Doctor has been misreading your name and had now prescribed him Lithium for his bipolar mood swings

Perhaps the haste had to do with

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/self-driving/bmws-autonomous-extended-traffic-jam-assistant-needs-supervision

Time for our mass market future. No SEYE here
https://www.bmwblog.com/2021/04/09/2023-bmw-3-series-sedan-curved-display/

Wonder who did all that work with TRI on their Guardian system?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WAyRd_hYQ5s&t=443s

#FutureFriday tomorrow?

If anyone has had enough of #MondayMotivation or #ThrowbackThursday then you could just mute them in Twitter
https://help.twitter.com/en/using-twitter/advanced-twitter-mute-options

Apparently no self respecting social media outlet can live without them ;-)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monday_Motivation
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwback_Thursday

I also like:
Seeing Machines is also looking to build on this success to grow their footprint in aviation and look to possible international opportunities.

“The technology is the same but the use case is slightly different as we change the focus from precise gaze tracking in the training environment to fatigue and attention in the ****pit,” Nolan said. “Similar to our Guardian Fleet and Backup driver Monitoring System solutions for freight and automotive respectively, we’re working on delivering an airborne solution that supports pilots from fatigue and incapacitation.

“We also continuously invest in developing features and applications that rely on a range of signals collected through eye, head, and face-tracking; gaze and attention being the more obvious ones, but also fatigue, distraction, operator condition, and cognitive workload signals.”

Good spot Ken

I like this bit
“Our engagement with RAAF was extended to a two-year contract and enabled full visibility of the capability of the technology and the utility of the output data and visualisations to all or most of the flying training units across the ADF,” Patrick Nolan, General Manager of Aviation at Seeing Machines, said to ADM.

That corner of Michigan has so many car firms that would need to validate a DMS. But my money is on Veoneer (or GM, Ford, ZF, or hundreds of other engineering/automotive firms in the area)

It is good to see valuation happening - you can't always trust the sales guys and better to turn it off, leave it out or find another supplier- than ruin your reputation on safety

Looks like just the right sort of "flickering"

You wouldn't notice it from the bland words of the patent, but for clarity, the remote vehicles in this patent would be called Reaper, Predator or Protector (someone more skilled than in might ID which one from the grainy photo. Of course, in the future it could also apply to monitoring QuadCopter drones too on 'home' soil (New Jersey in the screen that was shown). So flying via a screen doesn't give the same seat in the pants feeling as regular flying and boredom or distraction can be a problem, especially if one operator is responsible for more vehicles in the future.

Now as an aside, I did have a chat with someone senior on our side about the operators and recommended Seeing Machines. The reply, "probably something out chaps are looking at". I guess he has a stricter NDA