New Updates for FLAIM Trainer

FLAIM Systems has released a R3 2021 software update, which features the first look at its new residential compartment system. This means denser and more realistic smoke and now also includes smoke flow between compartments. Visibility is subsequently markedly reduced, creating a more realistic and claustrophobic experience, and making it essential for trainees to get low and under the neutral plane.

Its upcoming occupant rescue system is being trialled in the Residential Bedroom Fire scenario, with a collapsed mother and her two hiding children needing to be rescued. There is now a Power-Pole Top Fire scenario involving a sparking transformer and potential line collapse. Trainees can suppress the fire by pulsing or lobbing, but the use of a continuous direct stream will result in electrocution.

The VR lobby where trainees wait while instructors initiate scenarios is now a realistic-looking fire station where they can take tutorials on the user interface and use of the fire hose and nozzle.

The new lobby also features an incident alert system which is triggered when the instructor runs a scenario and trainees now must accept call-outs to begin. In future updates, they will also have to select PPE and the map route to the incident.

In this release, FLAIM is soft-launching its biometrics package for FLAIM Trainer.  A user can attach an arm-worn heart rate monitor and capture real-time high update information on-air usage (breaths per minute) and heart rate (beats per minute). In the near future, the company will be supporting logging against user actions so it can determine stress reactions due to incident exposure and use the data for future learning opportunities for trainees.

Some of the new and updated scenarios include a residential bedroom fire, highrise bedroom fire, power pole top fire, garage fire, and a kitchen fire.