The training effectiveness of the camera-model board visual system for low-altitude, nap-of-the-earth (HOE) flights, particularly for helicopters, is well established. Traditional camera-modelboard technology, however, has a number of inherent limitations which have been overcome by using a laser image generator instead of a TV camera as in the current generation of camera-model board systems. The first full-scale Laser Image Generation (LIG) visual system, developed by Singer-Link under the AH-1S Cobra Helicopter Flight Weapons Simulator contract, will be delivered to the U.S. Army in the near future. This new visual system offers improvements in many areas, some of which are discussed in this paper, together with the visual system technology involved and performance parameters achieved on the AH-1S simulator.