Crews at five stations with winch helicopters will be able to complete virtual training that supplements the twice-yearly real-world sessions currently required.

For Reiser, the H145 XR-SIM is a lighthouse project in close cooperation with the German aviation authority, the LBA. The DRF Akademie acquired the H145 XR-SIM in response to demand for high-quality training capacity.

The Level 3 device replicates the H145 D3 with avionics software version 10 and is based at Lufthansa Aviation Training in Frankfurt.