The Flight Simulator Engineering and Maintenance Committee (FSEMC) has announced the 2019 award winners for its Edwin A. Link Award and the Roger S. Goldberg Award. The FSEMC provides cost effective solutions to simulator operational and maintenance problems through international conferences and establishes technical standards that increase simulator readiness...
A major US defence aviation company has taken delivery of the first four of Cobra Simulation’s new Cobra180 immersive displays. The customer saw the product in its final prototype stage and placed an order for the entire first production run. The units are already in service ahead of the...
Madrid-based Indra has delivered its most advanced helicopter flight simulator to the Spanish Army. The NH90 training system, which contributes to the training of pilots of the three army corps, has been installed at the Héroes del Revellín base in Agoncillo (La Rioja, Spain) as part of the Helicopter...
Bulgarian military and civil aviation firm Jotov & Son have purchased a H01 FNPT II simulator from Entrol. The simulator replicates a Bell 206. It features a GNS 430, a cylindrical visual with three channels and a vibration system. It will be used to practice Bell 206 normal and...
Collins Aerospace Systems, a unit of United Technologies Corp., has successfully completed the Critical Design Review (CDR) of the Tactical Combat Training System Increment II (TCTS Inc. II) program with the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) Naval Aviation Training Systems (PMA-205) program office. Completion of the CDR allows the...
The DiSTI Corporation has been selected by Boeing for the development of a solution that allows the T-7A Red Hawk aircraft software to run on desktops and simulations using the GL Studio software. The GL Studio HMI development software will be used for the real cockpit avionics as well...
Airborne Tactical Advantage Company, a Textron Inc. company, announced that its team has been selected as a provider of contracted air services under the U.S. Air Force’s Combat Air Forces Contracted Air Support program. The effort will be led by ATAC and includes the team from Valkyrie Aero LLC,...
On the afternoon of 16 June 2019, 11 historic Douglas DC-3 aircraft appeared in the skies over the German capital, Berlin. The flypast recalled the 70th anniversary of the "Berlin Airlift", probably the largest humanitarian mission ever. MS&T’s Walter Ullrich describes the original mission and the training required. Bureaucratic...
U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin visited Fox Valley Technical College in Oshkosh to tour their flight training school and announced her bipartisan American Aviator Act to increase opportunities and expand flight-training services for veterans to become commercial airline pilots, which she is reintroducing with Senator John Hoeven. “America’s veterans have...
Seven ex-military training experts from Inzpire Limited have completed the design and delivery of a major international exercise, COBRA WARRIOR. Working alongside 92 Squadron based at RAF Waddington and operational analysts embedded with the Air Warfare Centre, Inzpire personnel acted as the white force. The exercise took place from...