CSC's $1.1 billion Flight School XXI contract to modernise US Army rotary-wing flight training is taking shape with the award of a $472 million subcontract to L-3 Communications' Link Simulation & Training subsidiary to supply the bulk of the simulators.
Under a 20-year Flight School XXI programme, a CSC-led team will provide simulation-based flight training at the Army Aviation Center in Fort Rucker, Alabama. Link will build and operate all the advanced aircraft virtual simulators (AAVS) and reconfigurable training devices.
The 19 AAVSs will come in two basic types: operational flight trainers (OFT) with motion and 200°-wide visual systems; and instrument flight trainers (IFT) with 150°-wide visuals and no motion. There will be eight OFTs and three IFTs for the Sikorsky UH-60A/L; three Boeing CH-47D OFTs; two OFTs and two IFTs for the Bell OH-58D; and one AH-64D OFT (with motion seats only).
The 18 reconfigurable trainers will be able to simulate any of the helicopters. The initial devices will be equipped with the Kaiser helmet-mounted display used in Link's reconfigurable simulators for the US Army's AVCATT aviation combined arms tactical trainer programme.
Source: Flight International
