Progressive training program for safe lifting, efficient operating, and complete worksite awareness in dense urban environments
Training pack overview
With the Vortex® Luffing Tower Crane (LTC) Training Pack, student operators learn the fundamentals of managing a luffing jib tower crane, including lift plans and load charts, boom inspection, use of a boom tip camera, and working in urban environments. They’ll also learn the fundamentals of safety systems including load moment limiters, anti-back-tipping devices, clamshell brakes, derricking limiters, and slewing limiters.
Luffing tower crane training pack features
Progressive learning program
Exercises are designed to gradually build skills and confidence in student operators:
- Understand the controls, start up and shutdown
- LMI configuration and alarms
- Hook and load management
- Pendulum control
- Erect steel structures and concrete panels
- CCO and CPCS test courses
Trainee performance management
The Luffing Tower Crane Simulator Training Pack gives instructors objective yet customizable insights into student operator performance and abilities. It measures metrics such as:
- Tasks completed and time
- Time in pendulum
- Collisions with objects or humans
- Rough load handling
- CCO test violations
- Grounding hook block
- Time in alarm conditions
- Instructor comments and bookmarks
Best-in-class simulation
The Luffing Tower Crane Simulator Training Pack provides the most realistic simulation-based training available. This includes:
- Adverse conditions: Time of day, shadows, nighttime operation, and weather (cloud cover, rain, snow, fog, and wind)
- Crane boom and jib deflection
- Stability and overloading risks
- Cable collisions with worksite obstructions and the crane boom
- Pendulums, snags, and collisions
- Realistic training setting with visual distractions: Cars, planes, pedestrians, and trains passing through the environment