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Pennant Training System Limited
Pennant International Group plc was established over 50 years ago. The Group comprises six wholly owned subsidiaries and operates worldwide, with offices in Europe, North America and Australasia.
The Group is listed on AIM with the Head Office in Cheltenham, UK. Pennant’s growth has been organic, through a combination of product expansion, customer development and acquisition.
In addition to their operation centres worldwide, the Group has collaborative arrangements with a strategic range of partners and agents in many countries and can truly claim a global presence.
The Group’s range of complementary products and services is extensive and supported by a creative, innovative and highly trained team. They offer experience and expertise in Computer Based Training, e-learning, Virtual Reality, Emulation, Simulation, traditional and interactive Technical Documentation and Media services.
Pennant Training Systems team, based out of the Head Office in Cheltenham, UK, approached Cubik Innovation to design and develop a Standby VOR/ILS Control Unit to be used in their simulation system.
The Standby VOR/ILS Control Unit, which is known as a Line Replacement Unit (LRU) in the aviation industry, will be installed within a part-task training system that Pennant Training Systems have developed. The trainer is based upon the cockpit design for an Advanced Jet Trainer.
The aim of the design was to replicate current in-service variants of the Standby VOR/ILS Control Unit in terms of fit, form and function.
An artistic impression of the Standby VOR/ILS Control Unit is shown below;
For Cubik Innovation, this project demonstrates all the various design aspects they have in their arsenal for the complete electronic product design.
When Cubik Innovation first started, the majority of the projects were for the design and development of custom electronics and the firmware to run on them. As the company has grown and matured, projects such as this one with Pennant Training Systems, have proven that Cubik has the capability to not only undertake the electronic and firmware design, but also detailed and precise industrial design, as Cubik designed every element of the Standby VOR/ILS Control unit shown below.
Evaluation System – the WAND and Sensor
Figure 1 – Cubik designed Standby VOR/ILS Control Unit
Figure 3 – Inside the enclosure showing the electronics
Figure 4 – The rear of the unit showing the connections and ground stud
The development of the Standby VOR/ILS unit encapsulated many of our facilities including:
- Specification of the technical requirements of the project
- Design and development of the enclosure to represent the original product
- Design and development of the electronics to integrate with the simulator whilst remaining faithful to the original product
- Using low volume manufacture to produce a batch of less than 10 units
- EMC testing (to support a CE mark)
- Generation of the embedded software to run within the unit
- Generation of a PC test application to allow bench test of the units without the simulator
- Careful project management to ensure that the delivery was made to budget and within timescales.
When asked about the work that was carried out by Cubik Innovation, David Selvester Head of Engineering at Pennant Training Systems Limited commented:
“This is the first time we have collaborated with Paul, Luke and the Cubik team on a design project. We found the whole process to be seamless and professional and look forward to working with them again in the future.”
