FLAIM VR

Newcastle International Airport was the first Airport in the UK to invest in FLAIM Trainer in 2023, the world’s first multi-sensory virtual reality firefighting technology at its Training Academy

Located on the airport site, the Training Academy offers a range of world-class fire and safety related training courses that attract delegates from around the globe. 

The FLAIM Trainer is a pioneering immersive learning solution, providing firefighters with realistic, virtual reality emergency scenarios to support their real-world training. 

Combining high fidelity virtual fire environments with real time physical interfaces that simulate the heat and noise of emergency situations, the system allows the Training Academy to further enhance the firefighting training on offer with a virtual environment that provides the trainees with live feedback and statistical analysis of their performance. 

Supplied by FLAIM Systems, the technology holds an expansive library offering thousands of hours of real fire scenarios in over 60 different environments.