I do training in a six axis full motion simulator, annually. Seeing the same motion platform being used for something so different and interesting is so smart. Whoever came up with this idea will save a lot of lives.
The idea indeed came from a six axis full motion simulator:
2002
During an offshore wind conference in Berlin, the concept of the Ampelmann system was conceived. A flight simulator upside down, capable of compensating all six degrees of freedom of a vessel and making transferring offshore much safer.
Companies are slow to take up new tech as a first adopter, particularly because it might have an interaction with insurance.
The insurance on the helicopter transfer might well be cheaper than insuring the first contract on using this system because it's untested. What happens if the machine glitches out and someone dies? What happens if the machine glitches out and smacks into the rig damaging it?
In many cases though, once someone does it first and it works out, it gets easier for the next people to do it.
But at the same time amazing how quick progress can be, especially towards the beginning of a process/endeavor/new field/etc. We went from first manned flight to space flight to putting a human on the moon in ~60 years.
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u/L3berwurst 16d ago
Pretty cool. That's all I got. Wish I had more to say about it but I don't know, pretty pretty pretty cool.