Mon, Nov 26, 2007
Nation's Army To Receive "Two-Dome' Sim Next Month
One of the world's most sophisticated aircrew training systems
has received official certification by Australian accreditation
authorities and recommended as suitable to begin training pilots
and Battle Captains for the Australian Army's new fleet of
Eurocopter Tiger ARH armed reconnaissance helicopters.
The Tiger ARH Full Flight & Mission Simulator (FFMS) has
been granted FSD-1 Level 5 accreditation -- equivalent to Europe's
Level D -- the first time a flight simulator with two coupled domes
has attained the highest level of certification worldwide. The FFMS
simulates all aspects of the Tiger's operation and environment, and
will be used to train pilots and other flight deck crew, as they
are in the commercial aviation sector.
The Tiger FFMS is part of the Australian Tiger acquisition
program (Air 87). The Army has an order for 22 Tiger ARH
helicopters which are being assembled at Australian Aerospace's
assembly plant in Brisbane. Nine aircraft have already been
delivered to the Army.
The Tiger FFMS, which is located at the Army's Aviation Center
in Oakey, Queensland, replicates the Tiger's two separate cockpits
-- one for the pilot and the other the Battle Captain -- and can be
operated either coupled as one virtual aircraft, or
independently.
Formal accreditation of the FFMS was granted to Australian
Aerospace by SIMULINC, a Canberra-based specialist group retained
by the Australian Defence Force (ADF) and the Civil Aviation Safety
Authority to advise on flight simulator standards and
accreditations.
SIMULINC calls the Tiger FFMS "one of the best presented
simulators SIMULINC has been involved with, and one we are
confident will prove to be a useful and valuable training aid."
"The integrated Eurocopter/Australian Aerospace project
management team ensured that the Tiger Test Pilot and Design Office
experts became fully immersed in the assessment of the simulator's
fidelity and its comparison with flight reality, thus helping
towards accreditation," added Joseph Saporito, Chief Executive
Officer of Australian Aerospace. "This accreditation will permit
the teaching of the whole transition course necessary for the
training of the first squadron of Tiger pilots without limits,
before Initial Operational Capability."
The simulator will officially be handed over to the Australian
Army next month.
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