ENVIRONMENTAL TECTONICS CORPORATION - Press Release
		ETC Announces New Generation GYROLAB® GL-1500
		March 20, 2002
SOUTHAMPTON, Pa., March 21,2002. Environmental Tectonics Corporation (Amex: ETC) today announced the successful factory acceptance testing of its new GYROLAB® GL-1500 Advanced Flight Simulator Spatial Disorientation Trainer. ETC produced the GL-1500 for a Southeast Asian customer. It will be delivered and installed in May 2002. The customer will use the GL-1500 to train its high performance aircraft pilots to successfully deal with the ever-present challenges of spatial disorientation. The GL-1500 combines the latest available flight simulation technology, including simultaneous ± 360 degree motion in pitch, roll yaw and planetary; also, real-world out-the-window visuals, realistic engine and flight sounds, detailed cockpit with closed loop flight controls and high fidelity flight models. Force feedback control loading is included to provide the pilot with the most realistic flight experience short of actually flying the aircraft. The GL-1500's ± 360-degree motion capability and its planetary motion, which gives it the capability to generate up to 2.6 Gs, make it the most realistic and effective flight trainer available today. (The Yaw system can accelerate to speeds up to 15 RPM. The Pitch and Roll drive systems can provide motion cues at speeds from 0.2°/second to 90°/second.) Since all axes of motion can be used simultaneously, the GL-1500 can accurately reproduce the motion cues that cause pilots to mistake their aircraft position and motion with respect to the earth's surface. This error is called spatial disorientation, and it costs many pilot lives and an average over $400 million in aircraft losses annually in the USA alone. The GL-1500 features 19 fixed-wing training profiles and eight helicopter profiles that are flight-realistic and fully automated. These training profiles provide pilots with the means to recognize and avoid - or successfully recover from - spatial disorientation. ETC's proprietary Interactive Profile Editor allows pilot instructors to create their own training profiles, thereby making the GL-1500 a trainer that can keep pace with changing training requirements throughout its life cycle. Converting the GL-1500 from its fixed-wing configuration to a helicopter configuration can be achieved in about five minute's time. Since the GL-1500 has the capability to provide continuous motion cueing and sustained G cueing, it can also train pilots in high risk flight maneuvers, including aircraft upset recovery, spins and stalls - all in a safe, controlled learning environment. The GYROLAB®'s instrument and navigation system uses actual navigation data that is synchronized with its real world visual database to provide the most effective training for instrument pilots. Finally, the GL-1500 includes a medical monitoring system to support research activities, and also to conduct motion sickness desensitization. The medical monitoring system can be tailored to the full range of customer research needs. Spatial disorientation remains a largely unsolved dilemma for air forces throughout the world because of the high loss of life and property that it causes; however, these incidents can be greatly reduced by integrated training that involves academic and hands-on instruction in the GYROLAB GL-1500 to ensure safe and effective flying. William F. Mitchell, ETC's President and CEO noted that "The GYROLAB® GL-1500 represents a significant accomplishment for ETC by integrating high fidelity simulation with the latest in aeromedical training. This high performance trainer can provide more value-added training than traditional simulators at a fraction of the cost of flying an actual aircraft. Experienced pilots who have flown the GYROLAB® GL-1500 attest that it is the most realistic flight simulator they have ever experienced". ETC designs, develops, installs and maintains aircrew training systems, public entertainment systems, process simulation systems, (sterilization and environmental), clinical hyperbaric systems, environmental testing and simulation systems, and related products for domestic and international customers. This report contains certain "forward-looking statements" including, without limitation, statements containing the words "believes", "anticipates", "intends", "expects", and words of similar import relating to the Company's operations. There are important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated by such forward-looking statements including contract cancellations, political unrest in customer countries, general economic conditions and the risk factors detailed from time to time in Environmental Tectonics Corporation reports filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including, without limitation, Environmental Tectonics Corporation's Annual report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended February 25, 2001.
CONTACT: Duane D. Deaner, CFO of Environmental Tectonics, 215-355-9100, ext.1203, fax 215-357-4000 or email: ddeaner@etcusa.com www.etcaircrewtraining.com