Fire Truck Driving Simulators

The safest and most effective fire apparatus driver training. Period.

Until now, two-seat fire truck driving simulators have not been configured to accurately train two occupants simultaneously. Most simulation solutions offer a realistic view from the driver’s seat, but leave the second participant (the officer) with a severely distorted image of the virtual driving environment. This misses the training objectives for the second student, and also often contributes to motion sickness from the skewed view.

FAAC’s Duel Crew Trainer simulator provides two separate viewpoints: one for the driver and a separate viewpoint, geometrically aligned for the second forward officer’s seat. These two correctly aligned perspectives are something no other fire truck driver training simulator can offer.

FAAC has leveraged decades of experience building complex simulators for the Department of Defense to make advanced, affordable training tools available for Emergency Vehicle Operator (EVO) teams.

Simulator Features

FAAC is dedicated to the highest fidelity in modeling and simulation technology, providing real experience for your fire truck drivers/operators in lifelike virtual environments. This truly immersive interactive learning environment fosters the situational awareness, cooperative problem-solving, and critical-thinking skills that are vital to the public safety mission. That improves operational preparedness without the safety risks, financial costs, and time investment associated with traditional behind-the-wheel training.

By devoting attention to your specific training objectives and budget, and working with you and your trainers to develop an optimal training solution, FAAC is able to deliver a custom simulator that precisely matches the equipment and safety challenges unique to your community, and offers “room to grow” as those challenges evolve over time.

Interactive Learning

FAAC’s Duel Crew Fire Driving Training Simulator can be built to replicate the features specific to your real-world apparatus. That includes real OEM components and dash, dials, controls, brakes, and sirens, as well as true-feel steering, accurate camber recovery simulation, and 3-DOF platform.

FAAC firefighting and driving simulators also include the software platform and tools you need to develop custom interactive scenarios that match your training objectives and ensure consistent and objective training. Every FAAC fire truck driving simulator:

Prepares firefighters to meet the demands of multi-tasking in route to a fire, in a risk-free setting
Allows for flexible, modular, expandable training scenarios
Auto-assess student performance against your SOP
Train students using correct scene placement
Accommodate the need for mobile fire truck simulators

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Meet Training Objectives

FAAC fire fighting simulators provide safe, effective, efficient, objective, and consistent training. Fire truck simulators allow you to train at any time, for any conditions, without the risks or costs of taking actual fire engines out of service

Teach the full spectrum of students: simulators offer basic, advanced, refresher, and remedial driver/operator training
Help students develop vehicle operations knowledge and driving skills: develop skills for accurate intersection analysis, and get to the scene of the fire quickly and safely
Develop student knowledge of rules and regulations
Create opportunities to find and address knowledge or skill gaps
Train students in proper radio communication

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Virtual Driving Environment

Take advantage of FAAC’s “Safety City:” a vivid and rich environment for fire truck driving training, utilizing the latest graphic technology. Safety City furnishes:

A wide variety of geographic features
Realistic driving on both city and rural roads with varying traffic patterns that test fire truck drivers’ control of the apparatus
Vivid, realistic replication of weather conditions that affect driving performance
A library of pre-built fire truck driving scenarios and fire training evolutions

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Dynamic Instructor Control System

Every FAAC sim includes the intuitive Instructor Operating Station (IOS) featuring:

Easy to use graphical user interface
Pre-built Scenario Library—launch a new training scenario at the click-of-a-mouse
Comprehensive selection of vehicles, ToD, weather effects and vehicle failures from drop-down menus
Exclusive student assessment tools: jump back, replay, and re-drive tools to review student performance and explore scenarios more completely
Instructor lesson planning tools

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Powerful Scenario Scripting Tools for Fire Driving Training Simulators

FAAC fire truck driving simulators include all of the tools you need to create maps, structures, and scenarios that are unique to your community:

Quick-design custom scenario development: create your own custom scenarios, replicating driving conditions for fire truck drivers in route to firefighting and rescue situations in your community
Complete resource pack: built-in libraries have everything you need to make instructors into scenario developers
Recreate realistic accidents and emergencies for powerful lessons
Create lesson plans for groups, maximizing training efficiency

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Review, Assess, and Adjust with VITALS

Effective training programs don’t just develop traditional core competencies—they also hone situational awareness and vital decision-making skills. An important component of FAAC’s training solution is the VITALS training tool: an interactive student-instructor program that facilitates after-action review, assessment, and lesson planning.

VITALS records students’ training performance, allowing the instructor and student to assess both skills and decision-making, and incorporate those results into a post-training exercise review. This effective tool also acts as an interactive playbook for the instructor, helping them tailor training practices to students’ needs while meeting training objectives and adhering to department policy.

Put FAAC Fire Truck Driving Simulators to Work for You

We understand that every fire truck driving and first responder training situation will be unique. That’s why we invest time in understanding your training needs and then include your team in developing and delivering the appropriate   vehicle operator training solution.

Contact us today to speak with our team of experts about getting the most out of your fire truck driving simulator for first responders. We look forward to speaking with you!