FlightSafety contracted for US Navy simulator trainer design
FlightSafety has been contracted to design and manufacture AH-1Z and UH-1Y flight training devices for the US Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division.
FlightSafety has been contracted to design and manufacture AH-1Z and UH-1Y flight training devices for the US Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NA WCTSD).
The new devices will be based in the Marine Air Corps Station Futenma in Okinawa, Japan and will feature the FlightSafety VITAL 1100 Image Generators, a dome visual display with 270 x 80-degree field of view (+30 degrees up and -50 degrees down), according to the company. It will also feature Microsoft Windows 10, advanced cybersecurity, and daily operational readiness test software, as well as other computational system upgrades.
FlightSafety has also been contracted to modify and improve the four existing AH-lZ and UH-IY flight training devices that are housed at Camp Pendleton Marine Corps Base in Southern California, US. FlightSafety has been tasked with adding a new aft entry area, instructor operating system position and design, a visual display dome and visual turret structure, as well as an expanded vertical field of view and six-axis degrees of freedom secondary motion system.