FlightSafety International is receiving outstanding reviews from US Army personnel who are using the UH-72A Lakota simulators being delivered to Flight School XXI. FlightSafety is teamed with CSRA and L-3 to provide equipment and services for US Army aviation training at Flight School XXI. Training began in November using the...
The UK Ministry of Defence has agreed a £1 billion contract amendment to modernise and run some of its UK test and training sites that will deliver £300m of efficiencies over the next 11 years. The considerable efficiencies have been made possible through an amendment to the existing Long Term...
Virtalis has been awarded the contract to provide two Virtual Reality (VR) simulators to Lockheed Martin in support of the Ascent Joint Venture charged with delivering the UK Military Flying Training System (UKMFTS). The Ascent commercial partnership comprising Lockheed Martin and Babcock, won the UKMFTS contract from the UK’s Ministry...
CAE has completed construction and received the occupancy certificate for its new Dothan Training Center. Over the next two months, CAE and subcontractor personnel will transition from interim facilities to the Dothan Training Center located at the Dothan Regional Airport in Alabama. CAE also announced that the first training device...
Airbus Helicopters has achieved Factory Acceptance of the last six of the EC135T2+ for the Helicopter Aircrew Training System (HATS) for the Australian Defence Force (ADF), completing on-time deliveries of the full fleet of 15 helicopters. Under the JP9000 Phase 7 HATS project, a new joint helicopter training program for...
Elbit Systems has announced that its joint venture with KBR - Affinity Flying Training Services - has reached a significant project milestone with the delivery of its first training aircraft. The two Grob G129TP 'Prefect's' that will deliver elementary flying training were the first of the fleet of aircraft to...
Fidelity Technologies Corporation has been awarded a contract from the United States Army valued at $9 million to provide training devices for the PC-12NG Knight Ryder Light Lift Utility Aircraft used by the Afghan Special Mission Wing. Under this contract, Fidelity will produce a PC-12NG flight training device (FTD) along...
L-3 Communications has successfully implemented AQT Solutions' ATMS (Advanced Training Management System) to manage the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) training program. L-3's ATMS implementation was preceded by one week of onsite training held at their facilities in Waco and Arlington, Texas. ATMS will be used by L-3 to build...
Saab has extended its support and maintenance agreement with the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration (FMV) for the SK60 trainer aircraft of the Swedish Armed Forces. The SEK400 million ($48,069,680) contract will be in place for three years starting July 2017. The extended support agreement means Saab will continue to provide training aircraft flight...
IFAD has provided an IRAS delivery to QinetiQ. After going through a down selection process, the IFAD Radio Simulation Solution (IRAS) was chosen to be used in a communication suite for the conduct of distributed training exercises. Distributed Synthetic Air Land Training (DSALT), conducted at the Air Battlespace Training Centre...
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