Recent advances in science and technology have led to the emergence of new navigation devices. One of these devices is a thermal imager installed on aircraft and unmanned aerial vehicles. Accordingly, the task arose to train pilots when flying on flight simulators and operators of unmanned aerial vehicles. To determine the location of the aircraft from the visually observed image of the terrain model, such a task is solved both by observing the terrain through the glazing of the cockpit and by observing the infrared image of the terrain on the thermal imager screen. o train pilots in solving aircraft flying problems with observing models of reference objects through the cockpit glazing, visual environment simulators were developed that synthesize visually observed 3D models in real time with the ability to professionally train their eyes. The solution of the problems of aircraft navigation with the observation of models of reference objects observed in imitators of a thermal imager has not been solved at present. The reason is the impossibility in real time (with a cycle of information change of 80 ms) to synthesize a recognizable infrared model of a 3D object using the well-known methods of accounting for thermal radiation from the surface of the 3D object in question. However, if we use the method of modeling the infrared model of a 3D object, assuming that we will synthesize not a 55 XXI century: Resumes of the Past and Challenges of the Present plus. 2021. V. 10. №4 (56)