Russian State University of Physical Culture, Sports, Youth and Tourism (GCOLIFK)

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2024: Development and application of the FPV drone operator training system for WCS needs. They are trained in just a month

In mid-May 2024, it became known that the Russian University of Sports "GTsOLIFK" developed and began to use a new system for training FPV drone operators (unmanned aerial vehicles with a camera that transmits video to virtual reality glasses or a pilot's helmet) for the needs of a special military operation of the Russian Federation in Ukraine. Thanks to the proposed method, specialists study in less than a month.

As Mikhail Novoselov, head of the Department of Theory and Methodology of Computer Sports, Chess and Digital Technologies of the University, told the publication RuNews24, the key feature of the methodology is that pilots simulate reconnaissance and attack during training.

source = Ministry of Defense of Russia

Depending on the task, the first reconnaissance pilot gives the command to the co-pilot of the attack on the FPV drone, and he, having flown a number of gates and flags, completing such figures as a snake, tornado, split-s, attacks one of the two gates - the first, if the reconnaissance pilot gives the command "odd," the second, if the reconnaissance pilot gives the command "even." And these commands come from numbers on playing cubes (the size of a thumb nail) that a scout finds and reads on a DJI drone, he said.

The representative of "GTsOLIFK" noted that students independently repair FPV drones (in the first days of training they often fight), study the drone device, air navigation, psychological aspects of piloting and fly on a simulator.

The training program developed by the university is designed for three weeks. Representatives of the Ministry of Defense of the Russian Federation themselves select and send military personnel to the university, where they are further taught to control drones. Trained fighters live and undergo training on the territory of the institution. After the military, you need to pass a special examination. By mid-May 2024, four groups of eight were trained.^[1]

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