Tue, Oct 27, 2009
AWACS Flight Training Provided For Pilots, Navigators, Flight
Engineers
L-3 Link Simulation & Training
has been awarded a one year $14.4 million contract option from the
U.S. Air Force to provide continued support of the service's E-3
Contractor Training and Simulation Services (CTSS) program.
L-3 Link, which as been the prime contractor on the E-3 flight
crew training program since 1993, is providing training services
for the E-3 CTSS under a contract initially awarded in 1999. Annual
contract options could extend L-3 Link's support of E-3 flight crew
training through 2014.
E-3 flight crews are trained at an L-3 Link facility in Oklahoma
City, Oklahoma that is adjacent to Tinker Air Force Base. Pilots,
navigators and flight engineers initially undergo classroom
instruction and computer based training. Depending on their mission
role, flight crew members next advance to train on either a
navigator part task trainer, flight training device or two high
fidelity operational flight trainers. L-3 Link provides student
instruction; develops courseware and training materials; performs
logistics and maintenance services; and ensures that training
materials and equipment remain concurrent with changes to the E-3
Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System (AWACS) aircraft.
"We value our long-term working relationship with the U.S. Air
Force on the E-3 Contractor Training and Simulation Services
program and look forward to remaining responsive in providing
training solutions that meet a full range of flight crew mission
readiness requirements," said David Williams, L-3 Link's vice
president of Training Services. "At L-3 Link it remains our mission
to provide the Air Force with a learning environment that produces
highly qualified Sentry flight crew personnel."
The program's two FAA Level D equivalent E-3 AWACS operational
flight trainers enable aircrews to practice takeoffs, landings,
instrument procedures, aerial refueling and emergency procedures
within a highly realistic flight environment. The operational
flight trainers move on a six-degree-of-freedom motion system that
replicates the aircraft's flight attitudes. Out-the-window computer
generated imagery is projected across a 225º horizontal by
50º vertical visual system display.
The E-3 AWACS flight training device enables aircrews to receive
instruction in essential elements of cockpit resource management
and crew coordination within a highly realistic cockpit
environment.
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