The Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) has dispatched its two largest aircraft — C-17A Globemaster III transport and KC-30A Multi-Role Tanker Transport — to the United States for Exercise Mobility Guardian 17. Held in Washington State from 30 July to 12 August 2017, Mobility Guardian 17 is conducted by the...

AMERICAN SYSTEMS is one of five companies awarded a position on a five-year, $250 million contract to provide aviation training services in support of Security Assistance programs for the U.S. Army’s Security Assistance Training Management Organization (SATMO). The SATMO program is a component of the U.S. Security Cooperation Enterprise that...

Rockwell Collins is to provide the French Air Force FOMEDEC training program with Visual Display Systems (VDS) for its Pilatus PC-21 simulators. Under a subcontract awarded by CAE, Rockwell Collins will develop two Spectraview Visual Display Systems in Salt Lake City, Utah, support CAE with integrating the systems at the...

Sundog Software has released version 5 of its SilverLining Sky 3D Cloud and Weather Software Development Kit (SDK) for simulation and game developers to enable more immersive flight training in dangerous weather conditions. "SilverLining 5 includes a new library of hand-modeled cumulonimbus thunderheads and towering cumulus clouds," explains Frank Kane,...

L3 Link Simulation & Training (L3 Link) has been awarded a contract modification from CSRA to deliver a fourth CH-47F Chinook Operational Flight Trainer (OFT) in the current aircraft configuration for the U.S. Army’s Flight School XXI (FSXXI) program. The contract also includes the upgrade of the three existing CH-47F...

The DiSTI Corporation, a provider of graphical user interface software and customized 3D virtual maintenance training solutions, won the year 2 option of Interim Contractor Support (ICS) from the U.S Army for the UH-72A Lakota Virtual Maintenance Trainer (VMT). The initial $4.4 million contract on the UH-72A included the development...

L3 Link Simulation & Training (L3 Link) has been awarded a contract to build and deliver the F-16V Peace Phoenix Rising Mission Training Center (MTC) to the Taiwan Air Force. The MTC will consist of four fully networked mission simulators designed for immersive mission training. Scheduled for delivery in 2018...

The Royal Air Force of Oman has taken delivery of its first Hawk advanced jet trainer aircraft. The two Mark 166 aircraft arrived at Masirah Air Base on July 29th and will now prepare pilots for life in the cockpit of the country’s fast jet fleet, which now includes the...

Cubic Global Defense (CGD) has supplied more than 60 P5 Combat Training Systems (CTS/TCTS) with Air Combat Meneuvering Instrumentation (ACMI) pods for the upgrade of the Royal Australian Air Force's (RAAF) Hawk 127 fleet. As part of the Lead-In Fighter Capability Assurance Program (LIFCAP) - which achieved Initial Operating Capability...