Spatial Orientation Enhancement System (SOES)

The Spatial Orientation Enhancement System (SOES) is used to develop methods that provide pilots with information to minimize spatial disorientation and loss of spatial awareness.


Undergraduate student Kyle Ellis suited up in the Rockwell Collins Tactor Suit

The Dynamic Environment Simulator, 163 tons of mass

Cab can pivot in two axes and one planetary axis

The Weeeeel

Minimum requirements to qualify

Inside the cab is a pilot-in-the loop flight simulator

Other view of the cab

More views of the cab

Tom Schnell

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