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Editorial comment

Critical Thinking Critical thinking as a holy grail is a perennial topic – and so it should be; it is the great enabler of effective decision-making. Critical thinking is “a habit of mind characterized by the comprehensive exploration of issues, ideas, artifacts, and events before accepting or formulating an opinion or conclusion”.

Operational and political environments are more complex than ever before, marked by nuances within nuances, and framed by ideology – from far left to far right. Critical thinking is essential. The issues within these environments for the most part are not simple; but they are complex issues within complex systems. Recognising that a system is complex is important for the simple reason that treating a complex issue in a complex system as simple can, and will, do harm. It is not difficult to find examples of simple solutions generating devastating unintended consequences, even while failing to settle the original issue. We have witnessed a number of such failures in the last decade, and we are currently observing domestic and international situations and events unfold in unexpected (by some) ways.

The military environment has come a long way since the relative simplicity of the situation General Charles C. Krulak’s Strategic Corporal found himself in that we discussed in MS&T Issue 6, 2004. Krulak introduced the concept of the Strategic Corporal in an article in Marines Magazine, January 1999.

What he had to say still bears repeating, even though the strategic environment has moved beyond the “Three Block War” to something even more complex. “Success or failure will rest, increasingly, with the rifleman and with his ability to make the right decision at the right time at the point of contact.” He noted that their missions “…will require them to confidently make well-reasoned and independent decisions under Jeff Loube extreme stress – decisions that will Managing Editor likely be subject to the harsh scrutiny of both the media and the court of public opinion.” This sounds a lot like a call for critical thinking skills.

Moving on, and with budget rumbles in the background and strategic pivots being planned, the need for adaptive and adaptable forces emerged as a theme in I/ITSEC 2010.

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definition, critical

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decision making."

The stated goal was to improve the military ability to deal with the complexity and complex systems that defined the current and foreseen defence environment of the time. The need for adaptive forces was stressed, noting that advances in the ability to improve individual and collaborative decision making and adaptability would offer very high payoffs in effectiveness for relatively low investments. By definition, critical thinking is an essential element in effective decision making.

Reacting to continuing resource and strategic change, Dr Laura Junor, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness, addressing the General and Flag Officer Panel at I/ITSEC 2011, stressed the need for a scalable adaptive force and noted the way to do that is through placing increased weight on developing and maintaining human capital. And, I believe, critical thinking is an essential component of that human capital.

Today the pressure of resource constraints is being felt across the board. The US military is faced with a tall order – cut resources, downsize, and yet maintain capability. In 2012 Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Martin E. Dempsey, speaking about budget plans noted “Capability is more important than size.” Implicit in this statement is that if capability is to be maintained, or at least the capability – requirements gap minimized, the ability to make effective decisions regarding resources is a fundamental individual and organizational requirement.

Critical thinking skills are a necessity for leaders at all levels throughout the leadership system and that the practice of critical thinking is a cultural (the way we do things around here) issue to be cultivated. So, how do we develop critical thinking skills and encourage those skills to be used?

The USCG Leadership Development Center (LDC) is doing their part to address those issues with innovative redesigns of courses, use of technology and ongoing support. In the next issue of MS&T (Issue 5/2014) the LDC tells their story of changing ‘the way we do things around here’. Stay tuned.

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05 Critical Thinking Again. Managing Editor Jeff Loube looks at the

importance of critical thinking in a challenging world.

08 F-35. The training system is proceeding apace. Group Editor Marty

Kauchak reports on the current status.

12 European Helicopter Training. Rick Adams visits some key sites

in an update on the technology.

16 Europe’s First EW Tactics Range. MS&T’s Dim Jones describes

the unique capabilities of the Electronic Warfare Training Facility at RAF Spadeadam.

20 COMBATER. In 2011 the Brazilian Army decided to go COTS to

meet their constructive simulation needs. COMBATER is the result.

Lt. Col Sergio Martins Rocha, Brazilian Army, tells the story.

24 Training and Simulation Industry Symposium. MS&T’s

Chuck Weirauch reports on the US military simulation and training procurement forecast presented at the Orlando event.

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28 ITEC 2014. Europe Editor Dim Jones reports on the 2014 event.

30 Seen & Heard. Updates from the training and simulation community.

Compiled and edited by Fiona Greenyer.

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An International Training System Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports on recent developments in the F-35 training system, which supports a rapidly expanding group of operators and maintainers in the US and other nations.

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he F-35 Lightning II acquisition program of record calls for Washington to buy an attention-getting 2,443 aircraft for its Air Force, Navy and Marine Corps. Three distinct variants of the fifth-generation F-35 will replace the services’ legacy combat aircraft: F-35A for Air Force A-10s and F-16s; F-35B short takeoff/vertical landing for Marine Corps F/A-18s and AV-8B Harriers; and F-35C for Navy F/A-18s.

This May 2, Laura Siebert, spokesperson for Lockheed Martin, the F-35 prime contractor, told MS&T her company had delivered 101 F-35s, but was unable to provide the end users and their individual delivery totals.

While the Pentagon’s procurement plan for the Lightning II will certainly be trimmed to support the department’s spending reductions into early next decade, the program will remain by far the Pentagon’s largest. As the US military customer and the industry team accelerate their completion of acquisition milestones, the pace of international activity also continues to quicken.

Beyond the US, there are eight partner countries: Australia, Canada, Den08

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mark, Italy, the Netherlands, Norway, Turkey and the United Kingdom. Israel and Japan both selected the F-35A through the Foreign Military Sales process. The Republic of Korea is also considering joining the global F-35 network with the F-X III competition.

The promise of the F-35B flying at the 2014 Farnborough Air Show, a distribution venue for this issue of MS&T, is certain to attract more international attention for the program.

The F-35 program is rapidly expanding in terms of airframe deliveries and national membership – with huge implications for the training audiences in the US and other program nations.

Lost in the mainstream media’s attention to the flurry of efforts to correct high visibility, hardware and software issues and move the three F-35 models toward initial operational capability, has been the F-35 training system’s accomplishments en route to providing a fifthgeneration aircraft training program.

The Training The US Air Force’s F-35 Academic Training Center (ATC) at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida, is the current focal point for

domestic and international training. The center plays a critical role in supporting the overall mission at the service’s 33rd Fighter Wing (FW) to train F-35 pilots, maintainers, air battle managers and intelligence personnel.

Air Force 1st Lt Hope Cronin, the chief of Public Affairs at 33 FW, the F-35 Lightning II Integrated Training Center, noted the current mission statement of the F-35 ATC is “to train Air Force, Marine, Navy, and international partner operators and maintainers of the F-35 Lightning II.” The ATC achieves this mission with a joint staff of military and contractor instructors.

As of this June 1, the ATC had trained more than 100 pilots and 1,100 maintainers for the F-35 program. The ATC had 32 pilots in training. Cronin further reported the breakdown by service includes 17 USAF F-35A pilots, three USMC F-35B pilots and eight USN F-35C pilots. Reflecting on the international dimension of this program, Cronin pointed out there were also two Netherlands pilots in training and one United Kingdom pilot in training.

“Lockheed Martin is also training a pilot at this time,” the public affairs officer added.

Cronin said there were currently 88

Above On May 6, the Government of Turkey announced its intent to order its first two F-35A aircraft (based on the above USAF version).

Image credit: John R. Nimmo, Sr/USAF. Right Three F-35 Weapons Loading Trainers have been delivered.

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maintainers in training: 30 USAF students, 46 USMC students, and 12 USN students.

While there were no partner nations’ students in maintenance classes on June 1, nine Netherlands’ students were scheduled to start the Autonomic Logistics Information System/Maintenance training course on June 9.

The US F-35 training infrastructure is rapidly expanding. In one instance, Luke Air Force Base is ramping up to host its first F-35 squadron, the 61 Fighter Squadron (FS).

While on May 14 there were six F-35 pilots assigned to the 61st, there will eventually be approximately 30 pilots by the time the squadron is up to full capacity. And while approximately 16 F-35s are expected by the end of 2014, the full contingent of 144 aircraft should arrive incrementally over the next decade.

Luke AFB’s Academic Training Center, which will house classrooms and 12 F-35 simulators, is under construction and is expected to be completed in late September.

Construction is also underway on other projects to support the USAF F-35 squadrons to be based at the air base.

And not later than this October 1, the Marine Corps is expected to have its first full flying and training operations underway at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina.

The Marine Corps is projected to be the first service to declare program initial operational capability – with its F-35B – in July 2015.

Technology Status As of F-35 Low Rate Initial Production lot 8, prime contractor Lockheed Martin leads a total of 191 US and international suppliers contributing to the training system’s training devices and other enabling technologies.

The industry team furnishes training hardware and software to program learning audiences for all three aircraft models.

One insight on the system’s technology can be gleaned from a Lockheed Martin equipment status report (as of this June 1). The document noted 17 training devices are available on which to learn and rehearse skill sets. Another 20 are scheduled for delivery through mid-2015, all of which will be located in the US. In all: • Nine Full Mission Simulators have been delivered with 15 more scheduled for delivery by mid-2015;

• Four Aircraft Systems Maintenance Trainers have been delivered with three more scheduled by mid-2015; • One Ejection System Maintenance Trainer has been delivered with two more scheduled for delivery by mid-2015; and • Three Weapons Loading Trainers have been delivered with no further deliveries scheduled through 2015.

Training Strategies To support the F-35 customers’ requirements the governmentindustry team has a multi-faceted strategy to ensure alignment between the F-35 training continuum and the increasingly complex air operations and maintenance domains.

In one instance, the Air Force’s F-35A training program is making more extensive use of higher fidelity training devices than the current F-16 program. The Air Force’s Cronin pointed out the F-16 training program utilizes devices from low-to-medium fidelity part-task trainers (unit training devices and others) to high fidelity, networked simulators with full field-of-view (FFOV) visuals for night terrain contour and other events - over 50 simulation events for nearly 75 hours.

“The concept of the F-35A program is to use one type of high fidelity, networked simulation, with FFOV visuals (in the full mission simulator) for all simulation events, and to provide more of those missions - over 70 events for more than 110 hours,” she emphasized.

Mary Ann Horter, vice president for F-35 Sustainment Support at Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Training, described the challenge of training fifth-generation airmen from the perspective of maintenance training.

The F-35 training system is designed to blend a variety of training media to create a total training solution for the F-35 weapon system. “Because of the aircraft’s computing power, F-35 maintainers must bring a high level of technical expertise to their jobs. More than 1,100 maintainers have been qualified to keep the fifth-generation F-35 mission ready at the F-35 Integrated Training Center located at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. Graduates of the program are currently supporting F-35 operations and test at seven locations” said the subject matter expert.”

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Training Systems in operation at the 33rd Fighter Wing are home to a full spectrum of the latest courseware, electronic classrooms, simulators, flight events and event-based maintenance training. The technologies at the Academic Training Center, which is similar to a college campus, include interactive courseware, desktop simulators and high-fidelity training devices.”

With respect to instructional strategy, maintainers rotate from the classroom to training devices and to the flight line to develop an in-depth understanding of the F-35 weapon system. Horter pointed out simulation provides more efficient training because it helps to limit the amount of time jets are taken off the flight line for training exercises. She added, “With simulation, maintainers also get to see a variety of emergency and wear-andtear conditions so the first time they deal with them isn’t when they have a limited window to service the jet and return it to readiness status.

Another linchpin of high fidelity learning on the training system’s devices resides in the software concurrency between the aircraft and the training system – and with good reason. Air Force Lt. General Christopher Bogdan noted before he assumed leadership of the program in December 2012, “There is an awful lot of software on this program. It scares the heck out of me.”

In all of the simulators, F-35 software is used to give students the most realistic experience possible while accelerating the process for software upgrades as the F-35 continues to develop and mature.

“The training system also uses many legacy and commercial off-the-shelf software tools to increase the affordability of the total solution,” Lockheed Martin’s Horter said and continued, “Flexibility is fundamental to the design and is built-in to every element of the system, providing the ability to accommodate the three aircraft variants and all F-35 services.”

The F-35 training system further sets itself apart from fourth-generation aircraft through the embedded training (ET) requirement. The concept of ET is to have supporting and threat entities, airborne and ground-based, resident in aircraft systems. “ET is currently part of the program of record for F-35 development,” the Air Force’s Cronin said.

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As of this June 1, the F-35 Academic Training Center at Eglin AFB has trained more than 100 pilots (above) and 1,100 maintainers for the F-35 program.

Image credit: Lockheed Martin.

Another development on the F-35 Academic Training Center’s horizon is the delivery and implementation of the next release of pilot and maintainer courses in early to mid-2015. Cronin pointed out this milestone will include the final system design and development delivery for maintainer courseware and the Block 2B software delivery for pilot training. She added, “As additional capabilities are certified on the F-35, training specific to those capabilities will be verified and integrated into the existing curricula.”

Other International Perspectives As noted earlier, a cascading number of nations from around the globe are buying or are expected to buy F-35s.

While Lockheed Martin cited proprietary considerations for not divulging its simulation and training (S&T) team’s members and their home nations, or the number of non-US companies per nation, some of that information is available in the public domain.

One representative, non-US team member is UK-based EDM Simulation.

The company, well known to MS&T and its sister publication CAT (www.halldale. com/cat), is a provider of components for the weapons load trainer system and the ejection seat maintenance trainer for the F-35. The company also provides Boeing 777 and 767 door trainers and other training devices to the civil aviation sector.

Of note, Canada remains a program

partner but has yet down selected the F-35 for procurement.

At the 2013 Paris Air Show Lockheed Martin and CAE signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for F-35 Lightning II training system support and services in Canada.

The MOU identifies CAE as a preferred provider of in-country F-35 training support, training system integration, operations and maintenance if Canada decides to buy the Lightning II. This May 1, Chris Stellwag, director of Marketing Communications at CAE Defence & Security, told MS&T his company has not received any work under this MOU from prime contractor Lockheed Martin.

As the training system evolves and expands, Lockheed Martin remains open to discuss new products and insights for the F-35 program from other US and non-US S&T companies. Lockheed Martin does not have an F-35 training system industry day scheduled as this issue was published; however, the company meets frequently with US and international companies to discuss emerging technologies that could be applied to the system. “We also participate in air shows as well as training and simulation conferences to see demonstrations and meet with potential suppliers,” Horter added.

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Continental Training Connections Europe’s collaborative helicopter training community is keeping current with its customers, adapting to new configurations and missions. Rick Adams visited key sites in France, Italy, and the UK for a look at the latest simulation technology.

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nder the vigilant gaze of a pair of HK416 assault rifle-armed NATO special forces infantry, neither moving a muscle, we lifted off from helipad H10.

As we crossed the shoreline heading northwest, two CH-47F Chinooks parted in a nose-down ‘bow’ to allow us to pass.

It was a beautiful bright-sun day, a few cirrus clouds high overhead, and several bateaux à voile caught the slight breeze in their sails.

As my instructor pilot Capt. Phillipe Debrand banked our NH-90 NFH (NATO Frigate Helicopter) to a southerly heading, he pointed out a dark, oblong object on the surface of the water.

It took me awhile to make out the partially submerged shape because I wasn’t expecting a Le Triomphante-class ballistic missile submarine in the middle of the Étang de Berre, the lagoon adjacent to Marignane, France, site of the Marseille Provence Airport and home to Airbus Helicopters and the Helisim Training Centre.

Of course, this was a simulated NH-90 demonstration flight, so just about anything was possible, including an SSBN. We cruised over the water at about 500 feet, but as we approached the slender bridge over the Grand Canal at Martigues, Capt. Debrand reduced our height to 200 feet, then less

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than 100 as we cleared the structure and some power lines beyond.

Now we were in the Med, and we passed by a luxury liner, an offshore oil rig, a 7000-tonne Horizon-class frigate, as well as France’s lone aircraft carrier, the Charles de Gaulle. Our next destination was a Mistral-class helicopter carrier, and Capt. Debrand executed a perfect side-slip landing next to the bridge.

We quickly took off again, flew in formation with a squadron of A400 fixed-wing transports, and vectored east toward Marseille, where the neo-Byzantine basilica of Notre-Dame de la Garde is the most prominent landmark high above the city. We flew through the heart of the Old Port, which would have surely frightened the tourists in the real world, then raced at lamppost level up the boulevard known as La Canebière, Marseille’s answer to Paris’ Champs-Élysées.

The Germany Army Aviation School at Buckeburg now includes two NH90 simulators and 12 other CAE-built devices (CH-53, EC135, UH-1D) and has generated more than 100,000 simulator training hours in a decade of operation.

Image credit: CAE.

Next stop was Les Baumettes prison to the south, where Capt. Debrand showed the simulator’s impressive “brown-out” rotor wash effects in the visual system as we hovered over a dirt exercise yard.

On the way back to virtual Marseille, he demonstrated an engine-out autorotation maneuver, impacting on a grassy football pitch with a thud and skidding to the goal line.

The final element of the flight was a landing on the 147-metre (482-foot), 33-story CMA CGM Tower, the Zaha Hadid-designed centerpiece of the city’s ambitious regeneration project, Euroméditerranée. Helisim customer SWAT police forces use the structure to practice high-rise building fast-rope assaults.

The helicopter pilot’s challenge is made more difficult by the sea breezes and lack of good external reference points in the vicinity of the isolated tower.

Capt. Debrand also showed me night vision goggle (NVG) and forward-looking infrared (FLIR) effects using a rather heavy helmet, required for the electron-

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ics that simulate the optics. Crews also have an option of training with actual military-grade NVG gear that Helisim keeps on hand.

We finally headed back to Marignane, and when we touched down I’d swear the NATO guards still had not moved.

NH90 Training Choices The NH90 multi-mission, fly-by-wire helicopter programme – a consortium of Airbus Helicopters, AgustaWestland, and Fokker – is nearing delivery of its 200th 11-tonne-class aircraft, and has a backlog of 300 units from 15 customers. Qatar signed a letter of intent in March for 12 of the TTH (Tactical Transport Helicopter) troop transport variant and 10 of the navalised NFH (NATO Frigate Helicopter) model.

The Helisim NH90 simulator is a Level C device produced five years ago by an NH90-focused, German-headquartered joint venture of CAE and France-based Thales Services SAS known as Helicopter Training Media International (HTMI).

In addition to the Marseilles area, the Thales database features areas around Lanvéoc-Poulmic, Hyères, and Le Luc. “Fiveinch resolution” is claimed in urban areas for nap-of-the-earth training. The simulator display is projected rather than collimated with fields of view up to 240 degrees horizontal and 85 vertical (30 up, 55 down). Formation flight, search-and-rescue, and combat missions can be flown against computer-generated targets such as other helicopters and tanks.

Helisim – which also operates simulators for the AS332 Super Puma, AS365 Dauphin, EC 155, EC225/725, and (beginning this

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Training Technology summer) the EC175 – is a joint venture of Airbus Helicopters and Thales with the French state-owned Défense Conseil International - DCI - as a minor shareholder.

There are currently four other NH90 training centres worldwide. Three involve high-end CAE-Thales simulators in Germany, Italy, and Australia; a new centre in France, to be ready for training in 2015, will feature a full-motion simulator in development by Sogitec.

The first CAE-Thales NH90 mission simulator was installed in 2008 at the Germany Army Aviation School at Buckeburg, a facility that now includes two NH90 simulators and 12 other CAE-built devices (CH-53, EC135, UH-1D) and has generated more than 100,000 simulator training hours in a decade of operation.

The most recent CAE-Thales collaboration is a pair of MRH90 mission simulators for the Australian Army in Oakey, Queensland and RAAF Base Townsville. The first entered service at the end of August – believed to be the first NH90 sim to be formally certified to Level D by a defence force and an independent aviation regulatory agency (Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority - CASA); the second device is expected to be certified this year.

David Burke, Commandant of the Australian Army's Aviation Training Centre, described the MRH90 simulator as the best he’s ever flown. The new simulator “presents pilots with a wide range of operational training scenarios such as flying into remote bush landing sites, flying in formation with other aircraft, and being safely exposed to complex emergency situations."

There’s also a CAE-Thales NH90 simulator at Rotorsim in Sesto Calende, Italy, part of AgustaWestland’s training centre at the historic Marchetti aircraft manufacturing site at the foot of the Italian Alps near Milan. Rotorsim is a separate JV of AgustaWestland and CAE. Rotorsim operates the Joint NH90 Training Program (JNPT), an 18-year partnership with The Netherlands Ministry of Defence that began in 2008, and is currently training pilots and tactical officers for the Dutch MoD, the Belgian and Italian navies, and the Norwegian and New Zealand air forces.

“We’re creating a community of NH90 crews,” Stefano Ceriani, Rotorsim General Manager, told me on a recent visit to Milan.

“Everything developed is shared with other services, with the exception of their tactical environments.”

The Rotorsim NH90 full-mission flight trainer (FMFT) can be configured for either the NH90 N2 cockpit used by the Dutch military or the T1 German Army TGEA tactical transport cockpit. The FMFT is qualified to Level C by the Netherlands MoD and Netherlands Militaire Luchtvaart Autoriteit (Military Aviation Authority). In the future, the JNPT plan calls for the simulator to be relocated to a facility in The Netherlands but will continue to be managed by Rotorsim.

In addition to typical flight handling skills, specialised training capabilities include anti-submarine warfare, anti-piracy, searchand-rescue, hoist, slinging, special operations, expeditionair, mission planning and mission rehearsal. Training databases encompass northwestern Norway, the English Channel, and North Sea environs with portions of Norway, Sweden, Denmark, Germany, The Netherlands, Belgium, and France.

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son planning stations, and a briefing room can display cockpit video, selected avionics, and control inputs from the sim session, as well as a stealth view animation of the aircraft. The network includes 184 computers, 60 to drive the simulation for the flight deck and 124 for the sensor operators tracking submarines and extracting special ops teams.

Sogitec is building its first NH90 full-flight simulator on behalf of NATO’s Helicopter Management Agency. The FFS is scheduled to be deployed next year to the French Inter-Army Training Center (Centre de Formation Interarmées – CFIA) at Le Luc, in Provence.

Sogitec has subcontracted to Simthetiq for real-time 3D simulated models, including helicopters, fighters, ships, submarines, and ground vehicles. Standard features include; multiple levels of detail, “authentic” texture schemes, precise material codes, distinct damage states, and accurate thermal signatures.

“We fully train the ground-based

CAE led the development of this MRH90 fullmission simulator, recently accepted into service by the Australian Army at the Oakey Army Aviation Centre.

Image credit: CAE.

Army crew and partially train the Navy crew,” said CFIA Lt Col Eric Morales. “The Navy crew are awarded their type qualifications and then get themselves familiar with the specific aspects of the aircraft and its arms system within the Training and Instruction Grouping at the aeronaval base of Hyères in Southeast France.”

The first NH90 aircraft arrived in July 2012, and training incorporated Helisim for the simulation element. Lt Col Morales estimated it takes about 18 weeks to train a new NH90 pilot who has prior experience on a manoeuvre helicopter – 220 hours classroom, 30 hours of flying, 100 hours of simulation. Captain qualification requires an additional nine weeks of training.

According to the CFIA, Belgium has also formally inquired about training their crew and mechanics at Le Luc.

Shifting Priorities In the UK, training continues to shift to simulators, and CAE is a primary beneficiary. Andrew Naismith, Managing Director of the Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility (MSHATF) at RAF Benson, said the Royal Air Force (RAF) is moving toward a 50-50 balance of aircraft/simulator time, compared with the traditional 70-30 split.

This means the synthetic devices need to be up to snuff, so last year CAE upgraded its Chinook mission trainers to the latest CH-47D and CH-47F configurations. “The main thing is keeping the simulator up to speed with the front-line aircraft so they are exactly the same,” Naismith told me when I visited the training facility in the Oxfordshire area west of London.

With UK forces exiting Afghanistan, training is shifting to a focus on so-called “contingency operations,” which Naismith said could mean many different things: non-combat evacuation, hostage rescue, aid to refugee camps. Upgraded CAE Medallion visuals (replacing the original Rockwell Collins system), for example, include a new urban database. “The ability to rehearse various mission scenarios synthetically de-risks everything,” noted Naismith.

The Royal Netherlands Air Force (RNLAF) began training on the new Chinook sims last fall in a contract that runs through 2018. The simulator upgrade included ensuring concurrency with the RNLAF’s current Avionics Control and Management System (ACMS) Block 5 CH-47D, of which they have 11 aircraft, and new Block 6 CH-47F Chinook helicopters (six aircraft). The CH-47F Chinook simulator was also upgraded to support other features such as missile warning sensors, radar warning receivers, chaff/flare dispense system, and digital automatic flight control system.

CAE previously enhanced the MSHATF Puma simulator to the HC2 LEP (life extension program) glass cockpit configuration for its RAF customers.

The US$150 million facility features a half dozen CAE helicopter simulators – two AgustaWestland EH-101 Merlins, the Puma, and three Chinook. The 40-year private finance initiative contract (PFI) began operations in 1997, and is three-quarters owned by CAE, one-quarter by a consortium of banks. Instruction is subcontracted to Serco. “The level of experience the exmilitary instructors bring to bear in the flying school is phenomenal,” Naismith commented.

Other MSHATF customers have included Canadian forces (CH47D); Australian Army Aviation (CH47D); Royal Danish Air Force (EH101); Italian Navy (EH101); Royal Oman Air Force (Puma) and the Japanese Self Defence Force (EH101).

Elsewhere in the EU The Swiss Air Force has a new Level D Airbus Helicopters EC635 full-flight mission simulator at Emmen Air Base near Lucerne. The Thalesbuilt device is used to train aircrews for cargo and personnel transport, search-and-rescue, and forest firefighting. Any area of Switzerland can be reproduced from a high-resolution aerial imagery database containing detailed roads, buildings, power lines.

CAE is developing an MH-60R mission operational flight trainer (MOFT) to train pilots, tactics officers, and sensor operators for the Royal Danish Navy. Delivery is planned for 2016 to Karup Air Base in central Denmark. The simulator will feature the CAE Medallion-6000 image generator and common database (CDB) architecture. The MH-60R Seahawk is focused on SAR and anti-surface warfare operations, including anti-piracy operations. mst

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Making It Real Europe Editor Dim Jones describes the EW Training Facility (EWTF) at RAF Spadeadam.

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unning east to west along the northern slopes of the Tyne Valley, between the Solway Firth and Newcastle-upon-Tyne, is Hadrian’s Wall, built by the Romans in the 2nd Century AD to keep out the marauding tribes of northern Britain, a reminder of the Roman occupation of Britain some two millennia ago. Just north of the wall, and in a different way just as significant for the defence of the UK, is the Electronic Warfare Training Facility (EWTF) at RAF Spadeadam.

Until 1957, no-one very much contested the Spadeadam area with the marauding tribesmen; at that point, by reason of its low population density it was selected as the site for the Intermediate Range Ballistic Missile Test Centre and specifically the Blue Streak missile.

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skyline. In 1976, the RAF took over the site, and it became Europe’s first Electronic Warfare Tactics Range.

The range surface area itself, by the standards of some tactical air ranges elsewhere, is relatively small – some 9600 acres – but its associated air exclusion zone is much larger (about 30 x 15nm), and this is further extended by a low-flying area exclusive to, and controlled by, Spadeadam. In turn, this area is itself part of a larger restricted lowflying area, extending almost across the country, where operational low flying at Minimum Separation Distances (MSD) down to 100 feet is permitted. Thus, the Spadeadam range lies at the heart of a complex in which aircraft, in large formations if required, can enjoy full tactical freedom at low level, something which other facilities – such as the Polygon range on the Franco-German border, run by those two nations and the US – cannot offer because of the restrictions on low flying in continental Europe. In

the early EWTR days of the Cold War, air superiority could not be guaranteed, and UK tactics heavily favoured low-level operations. Since 1990, air operations in theatres such as the Balkans, Iraq, Libya and Afghanistan have been in permissive or semi-permissive environments, allowing medium-level air operations.

The associated training requirements present an airspace problem above Spadeadam, which is resolved by careful co-ordination with other airspace users.

Facilities The facilities which the EWTF can offer fall into three broad categories: firstly, the pure electronic warfare aspects; secondly, the target arrays which provide the realistic environment in which defensive tactics can be practised; and thirdly, and more recently, the associated ground activity, which can be used to exercise ISTAR capabilities and support training for air-land operations. The

Above A pair of SA-5 launchers.

Right The Berry Hill complex, guarded by a variety of SAMs. All images: Author.

early EW emitters reflected the Warsaw Pact equipment of the day, namely the ‘single-digit’ SAMs and equivalent associated equipments that constituted the bulk of the threat. At that time, these weapons systems were obtained by clandestine methods on which I will not dwell, but the demise of the WP provided opportunities to obtain this ‘legacy’ equipment by more orthodox means, not least through the acquisition by NATO of former East German Armed Forces kit. Since 1990, the opposition against which NATO and allied forces have been called upon to operate has largely been of this vintage, and so the capabilities of Spadeadam have remained relevant; furthermore, and although we have historically been spectacularly bad at predicting where we might become involved next, many of the likely contenders sport systems no more advanced than these.

There is an aspiration to acquire more modern systems for the EWTF, but to the obvious trouble in obtaining them can be added the difficulty and expense of maintaining them.

Current EWTF systems are a mix of genuine equipment and emulators, and comprise SA-2, 3, 6, 8, 10, 11 and ZSU23/4; there is also a Skyguard radar, associated with the Oerlikon 35mm AA gun system. In addition, ‘Lucky’ is a system which simulates a shoulder-launched SAM, and the infra-red missile threat posed by shoulder-launched weapons such as SA-7 is further represented by Smoky SAMs, a rocket system which replicates the characteristic smoke trail of these weapons. The Mallina EO-UV system stimulates aircraft missile warning receivers, and a Javelin laser simulator replicates that threat. Emulator equipment includes two versions of the USbuilt AN/MPD T-43, the Version 1 which emulates SA-6 (Gainful) and the associated Straight Flush radar, and Version 4 which emulates the SA-8 Gecko missile and Landroll radar, albeit without the search radar capabilities of the real equipment. The T1 emulates the Fansong and Low Blow radars associated with SA-2 (Guideline) and SA-3 (Goa) systems. The equipment is virtually identical to the real systems, using radar as a primary tracking mode with an optical back-up, thus making chaff and manoeuvre an effective

defensive tactic. Lastly, ‘Jets’ is a landrover-based mobile radar simulator, which can provide a variety of threats.

Real Equipment The ‘real’ equipment – SA-8, SA-6 and ZSU-23/4 – is fully operational as far as the weapons systems are concerned; indeed, considering their age, and the valve and equivalent technology involved, they are remarkably serviceable, and some have been upgraded with digital systems in Poland. However, although the associated vehicles are capable of being rendered fully serviceable at short notice if required, the cost of maintenance and operation, and Health & Safety restrictions, mean that it is more sensible to deploy them on low loaders when necessary. Apart from the T1, which is static and positioned at the Berry Hill operations complex in the middle of the range, all the equipments are mobile; this is key, in that, while the range users know which systems are on the range, they have no idea where they are. Furthermore, the RAF has negotiated the use of small enclaves, well outside the range area but within the low flying system, where individual vehicles can be deployed, with their operating crews, for up to a week. In this way, aircraft attacking the range can be threatened during ingress and egress, and not just on the range itself. Other equipment can be deployed to distant locations, and operated remotely through a telephone link. For example, a SA-6 is regularly deployed to a small airfield on the Northumbrian coast, so that aircraft can practise their full chaff profiles over the sea while under threat from it. On that score, the use of flares and chaff is permitted on the EWTF range itself, but with some restrictions.

There is also a small live weapons range – Wiley Sike – within the danger area, on which practice weapons can be employed.

In addition to the emitting equipment, there is a vast array of some 250 static and mobile target sets scattered around the range complex, including decommissioned aircraft, vehicles and armour, and some manufactured mock-ups; while the latter may be readily identifiable as such from close range and zero speed, they certainly look realistic from 100 feet and 500 knots.

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EW Training Range aircraft, be they manned or unmanned, to loiter at medium level, using their sensors to scan a target area under the control of a Forward Air Controller. Often what they are searching for is a pattern of activity; this can be provided by EWTF personnel, dressed and equipped as either foreign military or insurgent, and pursuing whatever nefarious task is required of them – for instance, the deployment of an IED. They are also equipped with realistic inflatable replicas of high-value targets, such as Scud-B missiles.

Operations Room

Customers Customers come from a variety of sources. The major range users are units of the UK Armed Forces, which arrive in a variety of guises. Operational training comprises the full spectrum, from a single aircraft, conducting an initial range recce as part of operational work-up training, through pre-deployment training for operational theatres, advanced coursework - such as the Qualified Weapons Instructor (QWI) course for fast-jet aircrew and the Qualified Helicopter Tactics Instructor (QHTI) course for rotarywing, and Special Forces training, both multi-engine and RW. The range is used extensively for trials work, and is increasingly visited by US aircraft based in UK including the 352nd Special Ops Group – which has just added V-22 Osprey aircraft to its inventory – and by European nations, including more unusual customers, such as the French Foreign Legion, taking advantage of the tactical freedom of operations. EWTF personnel can also deploy, with equipment, to locations ranging from Lossiemouth to Oman – wherever a simulated threat is needed.

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ery Flight, which provides the non-RF threats, the GAFE section, which deals with the technical and operating aspects of German Air Force Equipment (the SA-6 and-8 and the ZSU-23/4), the Tactical Emulator Section, and the Threat Instructional Flight, which trains the operators.

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The range is controlled from the operations room at Berry Hill by a team comprising four elements: the Range Controller; the Air Traffic Controllers; the Flight Ops Assistants; and the EW Tactical Co-ordinators. The Flight Ops Assistants deal with range bookings and monitor the weather. The Air Traffic Controllers monitor the movements of booked and transit traffic, control range traffic as required while on the range, and liaise with other airspace authorities (including proximate airports, such as Newcastle and Carlisle, but predominately with the London ATC Centre at Swanwick) to deconflict range and other traffic, and to negotiate additional airspace in order to satisfy training requirements; they can provide a radar control service in all classifications of controlled airspace. The upper level in the range area is 5,500ft, which satisfies the needs of low-level operators; however, the increase in medium-level surveillance and attack operations militates for more airspace, and the upper limit of the range can be increased to 18000 by NOTAM, and further by negotiation. The EW Tactical Co-ordinator ensures that the threats requested by the customer are provided where and when they are needed, and the Range Controller exercises overall control of the range complex. The EWTC can also provide debrief data, which can be e-mailed to the user for hot debrief on landing. More detailed debriefing can be achieved using data stored on disk and sent to the user.

The staff at the EWTF comprises some 80 service personnel, and 120 civilians, fulfilling a variety of standard RAF station functions, but also some peculiar to Spadeadam, such as the Threat Deliv-

The EWTF also provides a unique facility for air-land training; one example is its utility as an exercise objective for major exercises such as the biennial Joint Warrior, where major troop insertions, by helo or para-drop, can be practised in simulated non-permissive environments. Last year, Joint Warrior used Spadeadam, and specifically such ground objectives as ‘Kalinsky’, a simulated airfield, and Prior Lancy, for assaults by over 4000 troops, including 16 Air Assault Brigade and 42 Commando. Lastly, the Joint Forward Air Controller Training and Standards Unit (JFACTSU) – see MS&T Issue 1-2011 for a full report – stages part of its endof-course Exercise Final Thunder at Spadeadam. This takes advantage of the controlled air environment, the Easternbloc target array and SAM systems, the ability to use pyros and blank ammunition, and to practise mounted and dismounted patrol procedures; it allows the JFACTSU staff to train and evaluate future FACs by exposing them to a ‘battlefield inoculation’, in which they exercise dynamic control of Close Air Support and Joint Fires operations in a 3-D battlespace environment, working in conjunction with a ground commander and role-played chain of command.

The EWTF staff is committed to E B R AT I N improving the facility, within the omniEL G C present budgetary constraints. The latest project is a helicopter refuelling E A R S allow RW and rearming area, which Ywill aircraft to turn round on-site instead of returning to deployment bases, thus allowing up to four sorties per day verE L E B Rand, equally sus the current one or Ctwo importantly, facilitating hot debrief for the crews while the aircraft is turning by means of a short trip to Ythe Berry Hill ops EARS room. Other aspirations for the future, 1984 – 2014 subject to budgetary constraint, include: widening the capability of some of the equipment to operate in low light and darkness as well as daylight; upgrading emulators to replicate more modern threat systems; and taking advantage of Spadeadam’s large and unique real estate to appeal to a wider variety of customers. The bottom line is that, where there’s a potential threat, there is a training need, which the EWTF will strive to meet. mst

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COMBATER – A COTS Solution After decades of in-house maintenance and development, the Brazilian Army decided a new COTS solution would provide significant benefits and ROI. The result is COMBATER, a constructive simulation system that is meeting their expectations. Lt Col Sergio Martins Rocha, Brazilian Army, tells the story.

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he Brazilian Army has experienced the benefits of a dedicated simulation center for the provision of training, planning and evaluation since the 1990s. Key military decision-makers have repeatedly asserted that simulated training scenarios not only reduce the costs but also improve the quality of training.

Consequently, we have developed in-house a number of different simulation systems over the last two decades and our most recent constructive simulation system has been operational since 2004. The maintenance and development challenges associated with this process – using, upgrading, and maintaining an in-house system by ourselves – quickly became prohibitive, as successive updates were required to accommodate new operational challenges, rapidly evolving training requirements, and the impact of new equipment.

By 2011, we changed our approach: we decided to divert investment away from in-house development and replace our existing constructive simulation system with a commercial offthe-shelf (COTS) product easy to customize with our doctrine and equipment. Constructive simulations use computers and software to simulate both friendly and opposing forces (referred to as Computer Generated Forces or CGF). The benefits of such a system are that unit and formation staff can be trained without deploying higher and lower control (HICON/LOCON) personnel, flanking formations or a civilian population (CIVPOP). Costs are also saved by training these forces in a classroom without the need to deploy into the field.

The decision to seek a COTS solution was inspired by a wave of recently developed, next-generation simulation tools charac-

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terized by flexibility and the need to reduce associated personnel costs. Boosting inhouse development would have required an enlarged team with a reduced turnover rate in order to keep abreast of software engineering developments: an expensive and unlikely eventuality given the occupational mobility that characterizes our Army.

In order to successfully replace the current simulation system and be cost effective, the COTS solution had to be: 1. Ready to meet the latest training challenges such as asymmetric warfare, public safety and peace-keeping operations; 2. Easy to customize to our specific needs; 3. Easy to upgrade, while remaining compatible with all customization developments; 4. ‘Smart’, by using Artificial Intelligence (AI), to reduce the number of operators; 5. Open and easy to integrate with C2 systems and other simulation tools; and 6. Use LUA Code By the end of 2012, we had completed a deep analysis of all the constructive simulation tools available on the market, drafted all the system requirements, and we were ready to launch a competitive process to acquire the new system.

COMBATER rapidly delivers returns on investment during the recent November exercise.

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The Selection Process The Brazilian Army’s Land Operations Command (the Comando de Operações Terrestres – COTER), which runs the Army’s Command Staff Training Center in Santa Maria, was responsible for the selection process. COTER’s wide responsibilities include the preparation and employment of land forces in accordance with the policies and strategic direction of the Army’s Command Staff.

Within this context, the primary function of COTER has been to focus on simulation as a means of preparing individuals and units for the wide range of challenges coming from operational needs.

Following the initial Request For Information (RFI) process, between August and November 2012, COTER pre-selected seven system integrators to participate at the final procurement process; five of these candidate solutions were powered by SWORD, a fact that we found particularly interesting. Subsequently, out of the four final shortlisted bids, three of them included SWORD. The final electronic bidding process took place in February 2013, leaving the three best priced bids in the competition powered

by SWORD. In the end, Dec@tron presented the lowest priced proposal and was selected to provide SWORD to the Brazilian Army and customize it in order to deliver a cutting-edge simulation system for training centers across Brazil within a 13-month long contract.

Prior to the final contract award, the Army carried out a series of tests on SWORD to ensure that the software satisfied all contract requirements, including interoperability features. The last test was a two-day brigade level exercise, in which more than 50 operators participated to validate system performance and stability. All tests and exercises were carried out using the generic NATO-based doctrine and equipment databases provided offthe-shelf with SWORD.

Why SWORD? Once SWORD demonstrated that it met the system specifications defined by COTER and completed the preliminary technical validation phase, Dec@tron was officially awarded the contract with MASA Group as the technology provider. Developed as an aggregated, constructive simulation SWORD is powered by an Artificial Intelligence engine that allows unprecedented high-level automation and realism, offering the Brazilian Army unique behavior/doctrine modeling capabilities. Simulated commanding agents can now distribute orders to simulated agents on the ground, react dynamically in response to changing events and execute missions with respect to our specific operating doctrine. These characteristics were all delivered with the required excess capacity to reproduce large-scale military maneuvers involving thousands of units – over areas typically up to 1,000 x 1,000 km depending on the scenario and terrain characteristics.

Furthermore, SWORD’s inherent elements also offer adaptability, complete customization options, an intuitive user interface, rapid operational deployment, an open simulation platform, accessibility via the cloud, and multi-language support.

sibility for the project’s management was held by Dec@tron.

MASA provided technical expertise and customization support, while our own trained engineers and experts supervised the overall project execution and ensured that the product customization satisfied our bespoke requirements.

The project schedule for 2013 included three weeks of training followed by two adaptation phases dedicated to the customization of the most important military and public safety equipment and doctrine missions. Two weeks of November 2013 were dedicated to three brigade-level exercises to be held in the Santa Maria training centre, located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. A third phase to complete the customization of special military units and two more division-level exercises will be completed in 2014.

The training phase covered a wide range of topics, from end-user to system administrator training, and system deployment to customization and programming. The first two months of the customization work served as on-the-job training by MASA engineers for both our own Army engineers and those of Dec@tron. From the outset, SWORD’s flexibility was evident, enabling ready adoption of our military doctrine and rapid configuration of the system with the technical specifications of the Brazilian Army’s equipment.

The adaptation work performed by Dec@tron has included not only the translation of the system’s interface and user manuals from English to Portuguese, but also the customization of all simulation reference data, replacing generic NATO-based equipment and missions with specific Brazilian material and doctrine.

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has been carried out to recreate the 15% of missions that are specific to our operational envelope, a derivative of our country’s unique topography and the special capabilities we have developed to operate within it. In addition to equipment and missions, Brazilian military units and terrain have been added to create the most realistic scenarios possible.

COMBATER’s first operational exercises involved command staff from the 6th Armored Infantry Brigade based in Santa Maria, the 8th Motorized Infantry Brigade based in Pelotas and the 3rd Motorized Cavalry Brigade based in Bage. The three exercises were carried out without difficulties and provided precious feed-back to the project team in order to be able to further fine-tune the system’s configuration and databases.

Rapid Deployment and ROI The speed of the project execution, from contract signature to deployment, represented a significant achievement within the Military Simulation and Training (MS&T) sector. Just six months after the contract was signed, COMBATER was already almost completely customized and was used to conduct Brazil’s first major C2 simulation exercise.

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comes. The omitted information is, in any case, useless for a brigade or division command post training exercises: if added to the system, it inevitably clogs it up with unnecessary data.

The result is a compact and agile system that, by working with the right amount of information, helps operators focusing on the military maneuver; increasing the overall realism of the simulation. However, moving from the type of entity-level simulations that we previously used to an aggregated simulation required a period of adaptation to focus only on the information actually relevant for a brigade or division command post.

All of SWORD’s customization work to the Brazilian doctrine is saved in external files and scripts, and is kept independent of the simulation software’s core. This allows us to benefit from new product features included in regular product updates – generally two major releases per year – without running the risk of compromising any existing customizations or incurring expensive system upgrades.

Early indications from the November exercise suggest that COMBATER (powered by SWORD) is offering an immediate return on our investment, validating the product’s status as an efficient training tool.

Remarkable speed of deployment has been matched by important returns on investment regarding price, resource deployment and training efficiency. The high automation level made possible by SWORD's AI technology has allowed a reduction of the number of operators required to control the simulation; hence the possibility to launch larger exercises with fewer resources. Based on current results, we believe that we could reduce the personnel required to provide brigade-level training by roughly 30%. In addition, SWORD's intuitive yet powerful user interface has reduced our operators' training time and removed the likelihood of mistakes when entering the trainees’ orders into the system.

COMBATER’s Future Our experience of working with MASA Group and its partners since the acquisition of SWORD as the core of our new COMBATER system has been extremely positive. The tool is currently located at one training center in Santa Maria and current plans include equipping several more training centers with the system within the coming years as well as ensuring the system’s lifetime for at least the next ten years, taking full advantage of regular product releases.

COMBATER’s capabilities were widely demonstrated during the last WSTM trade show (Workshop of Simulation & Technology for Military) held in Brasilia in October 2013 and were proved during the first brigade exercises in November. Several military schools and government organizations have noted the system’s potential. It is not difficult to imagine that in a short period of time SWORD might be used in different contexts, from army corps exercises in military academies to public safety scenarios designed for other state departments and ministries in Brazil.

About the Author Lieutenant Colonel Sergio Martins Rocha, Brazilian Army, is an advisor in the Brazilian Army Simulation Division. mst

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2014 TSIS Change is afoot within the training and simulation procurement community in reaction to budget constraints and evolving training requirements.

MS&T’s Chuck Weirauch reports on the event.

Above New PEO STRI Executive Officer MG Jon Maddux addresses the 2014 TSIS audience.

Image credit: Chuck Weirauch.

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he somber news that the US Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) has withdrawn the draft RFP for its $6 billion Train, Educate and Teach (TEACH) omnibus contract left more than 700 conference attendees at the 2014 Training & Simulation Industry Symposium (TSIS) hoping for something less somber at the June 11-12 event in Orlando.

Fortunately, there was some better news, in part from positive reports from the leadership of the Navy's Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD) and in the news that while TEACH was dead, the requirements live on – so far.

The format of the TSIS was changed for this year, allowing for more time for networking, military / industry panel discussions and question and answer sessions. While that interaction was considered a positive addition to the event, it did reflect the reduction in time spent on contract announcements than in past years.

Good News From The Navy According to NAWCTSD Commanding Officer Captain Steven Nakagawa, his command will be offering more than $1.8 billion in total estimated value of contracts over the next two years.

But better than that, he reported that NAWCTSD has not seen a downturn in funding in any significant way, with a possible upturn within the next year. One reason for that positive outlook is that the amount of non-Navy contract work his command is supporting has risen to 24 percent of its total, with that amount expected to grow in the future, Nakagawa explained.

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due to their interest shown at the 2014 International Training and Education Conference (ITEC).

Some of the NAWCTSD contract opportunities of note included the $1 billion Fielded Training Systems Support Multiple Award Contract (MAC) IV with an RFP scheduled for the 3rd quarter of fiscal year 2015. The next highest-value opportunity was the one for the $120 million USMC Aviation Training Systems Contractor Operations and Maintenance Services contract, with an RFP planned for the first quarter of FY 2016.

Also of note were several contract offerings for operator and maintenance courseware for the MQ-4C Triton and MQ-8B/C Fire Scout unmanned aerial vehicles as the service introduces more UAVs into its operations. The Intelligent Tutoring Authoring and Development System contract, which will provide the core for this effort, emphasizes the service's commitment to adopting this technology to enhance its schoolhouse courseware.

Captain Craig Dorrans, Program Manager for the Naval Aviation (NAVAIR) Training Systems and Training Range Program Office (PMA 205), provided a broader view of the overall training goals for the Navy in the future.

"The future of training is integrated training, with the focus on integrating a lot of the existing training systems in the Navy," Dorrans said. "They all need to be integrated in to a training network. We also have to get to LVC as quickly as possible so that we can train as we fight. Within the next two years, just about every single aviation training platform will be tied together through the Navy Integrated Training Environment (NITE)."

As a part of that effort, a prototype Naval Aviation Distributed Training Center will be built in Orlando starting this year, Dorrans said. The Center will serve as a hub for Navy Aviation Simulator Master Plan (NASMP) components that will be networked into the NITE, he noted.

The Army and TEACH With the TEACH cancellation on everyone's minds, incoming PEO STRI Executive Officer MG Jon Maddux,

addressing his first TSIS audience, clearly wanted to reduce some of the anxiety that decision created among simulation and training industry representatives. He stated that his organization's goal is to stabilize its programs of record so that they will have stable funding in the future.

"Don't necessarily be alarmed about cancellation of the TEACH contract," Maddux told the TSIS audience.

"It is not our intent to drop any of the requirements that are associated with that RFP. We are in fact bringing them into the Army contracting community and bringing those efforts into multiple contracts to increase more full and open competition, as well as opportunities for small businesses. We are transitioning those requirements to the Army Contracting Command (ACC), with our team in place to assure that nothing falls through the cracks."

Meanwhile, the TEACH training services requirements are still under the Warfighter FOCUS contract, PEO STRI Contracting (formerly Procurement) Center Director Joe Giunta pointed out.

The Warfighter FOCUS contract has a period of performance through 2017, and is PEO STRI's primary vehicle to provide Life Cycle Contractor Support (LCCS) for Training Aids, Devices, Simulators and Simulations (TADSS) sustainment.

"We are in the process of assessing those requirements and creating a transition/migration plan for those requirements to the ACC," Giunta said. "We will be working with that command to develop a new strategy over the next few weeks, but we are not planning to create another contracting platform like TEACH. We will remain true to our customers’ requirements and a seamless transition to the ACC to the best of our ability. It will take several weeks to lay out this grand

plan, since we decided that we needed to reprioritize the TADSS program."

Maddux added that a key technical strategy of the way ahead is to focus on the incorporation of live, virtual and constructive integration architecture (LVCIA) into training systems in order to be able to link them together.

Air Force Teleconferences And again, the Air Force's Training Systems Product Group attended via teleconference due to travel budget considerations. The $98 million A-10 Aircrew Training System was announced, despite the uncertain future of the aircraft, only because at the time no final decision had been made to retire the Warthog. One full-and-open competition announced was the $273 million F-16 Training Systems contract. (See accompanying Contract Opportunities Chart for further information.) mst

US TSIS 2014 Contract Opportunities The list below has been extracted from information presented at TSIS 2014 regarding contracting agencies purchasing intentions.

(Notes: Contracts with RFPs released before this issue was published are not listed; RFI -Request For Information; SS-Sources Sought)

Contract Est. Value RFP Date Award Contact Army PEO STRI Army Combat Training Instrumentation $40M 4Q/ FY14 2Q/FY15 TRADE@peostri.army.mil Common Range Instrumentation Systems $100M FY15 FY16 TRADE@peostri.army.mil System Vehicle Tactical Engagement Simulation System $112M Sep 2014 (RFI) 3Q/FY16 TRADE@peostri.army.mil ACTT Post Deployment Software Various 4Q/FY14 3Q/FY15 CATT@peostri.army.mil Wideband Training & Certification $24M 3Q/FY14 (SS) TBD CATT@peostri.army.mil CCCT Post Deployment Software $45M 1Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 CATT@peostri.army.mil Dismounted Soldier Training Sys. Blk II $49M 4Q/FY14 1Q/FY16 CATT@peostri.army.mil Veteran's Health Administration $14M 3Q/FY14 FY15 CATT@peostri.army.mil CATT EMD Integration Upgrade $37M 4Q/FY14 3Q/FY15 CATT@peostri.army.mil Virtual BCT Collective Trainer $14M 3Q/FY14 (SS) 1Q/FY15 CATT@peostri.army.mil Afghanistan AF PC-12 Trainer $10M 1Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 STRIIPO@peostri.army.mil Iraq STRYKER MILES/trainers $25M 1Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 STRIIPO@peostri.army.mil Jordan KASOTC $12M 4Q/FY14 2Q/FY15 STRIIPO@peostri.army.mil Colombia MILES TBD 4Q/FY14 1Q/FY15 STRIIPO@peostri.army.mil Serbian PKO Training Center $4M 3Q/FY14 TBD STRIIPO@peostri.army.mil NAWCTSD MS&T MAGA Z INE 3 / 4 . 2 0 1 3 31 Fielded Training Systems Support Multiple Award Contract (FTSS IV) $1B 3Q/FY15 3Q/FY16 mike.merritt@navy.mil E-6B COMS/CIS $45M Sep 2014 2Q/FY15 mike.merritt@navy.mil Navy Aviation Survival Trn. COMS $2M 1Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 mike.merritt@navy.mil E-2C/D COMS/CIS $30M 1Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 mike.merritt@navy.mil C-9B COMS/CIS $7.5M 4Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 mike.merritt@navy.mil USMC Aviation Training Systems COMS/SYS $120M 1Q/FY16 3Q/FY16 mike.merritt@navy.mil F/A-18 COMS/CIS $80M 3Q/FY15 3Q/FY16 mike.merritt@navy.mil Contractor Instructional Services/Atlantic (CISLANT) $70M 3Q/FY16 4Q/FY16 mike.merritt@navy.mil CNATRA COMS $35M 3Q/FY16 1Q/FY17 mike.merritt@navy.mil Maritime Plus COMS $80M 2Q/FY17 4Q/FY17 mike.merritt@navy.mil Command Aircraft Crew Training (CACT) C-37B $13M Sep 2014 2Q/FY15 mike.merritt@navy.mil C-26D CACT $3M 1Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 mike.merritt@navy.mil UC-35 CACT $7.5M 2Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 mike.merritt@navy.mil C-40A CACT Maintenance $2.8M 4Q/FY15 2Q/FY16 mike.merritt@navy.mil

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US TSIS 2013 Contract Opportunities cont.

Contract Est. Value Instructional Systems Development (ISD) F/A-18 $15M Dynamic Ejection Seat Trainer $3M Parachute Descent VR Trainer $750K Multi-Spatial Disorient Device $500K Shore Based Radar Air Traffic Control Training Systems (SATS) $2M C2A Op. Flight Trainer SLEP TBD E-6B Integrated Avionics Trainer $10M CNATRA T-45 Op. Flight Trainer TBD AV-8B Deployable Mission Rehearsal Trainer $5M Marine Common Aircrew Trainer $50M P-3C OFT Technology Refresh $50M P-8A Deployed Mission Readiness Trainer $50M P-8A Device Tech Refresh TBD MQ-4C Operator Courseware TBD MQ-4C Electronic Classroom TBD MQ-4C Operator Brief/Debrief Room TBD MQ-4C Maintenance Training Device TBD MQ-4C Maintenance Courseware TBD MQ-8B/C Mission Systems Trainer $10M MQ-8B/C Mission Systems Trainer $5.6M MQ-8B Operator Proficiency Devices $2M MQ-8C Ground Control Station Trainer TBD MQ-8C Avionics Maintenance Trainer & Combined Maintenance Trainer TBD MQ-8C Air Combat Training Sys Crswr.

TBD MQ-8C Operator/ Maintainer Courseware TBD Intelligent Tutoring Authoring and Delivery System II $3.8M Digital Tutor (DT) $12M Emerging Technologies $9M NROTC Mariner Skills Simulator $3.2M NSST Instructor Services (re-compete) $10M Track Data Coordinator (TDC) $4.5M PORTS ID/IQ Contract (re-compete) $50M LCS Contractor Operation & Maintenance Services (COMS) $8.5M LCS 1 Integrated Tactical Trainer $18M LCS 2 Integrated Tactical Trainer $18M LCS Independent Verify/ Validate $9M Undersea Firefighting Trainers -NG $27M Undersea Training Devices Various Australia - P-8A Training System $112M Israel AF V-22 Aircrew Training Sys. $16M Israel AF V-22 Courseware $500K Pakistan AH-1Z Aircrew/Maint Train $2M Finland – F/A-18 Training System $12M Saudi Arabia upgrades to FF school $5M Oman – Military Technical College $6M Global Peace Operations Initiative $15M

RFP Date Dec 2014 3Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 1Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 4Q/FY14 Sep 2014 4Q/FY14 1Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY16 3Q/FY15 4Q/FY14 4Q/FY14 4Q/FY14 2Q/FY16 1Q/FY15 1Q/FY16 1Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 3Q/FY14 4Q/FY14 2Q/FY15 Jul 2014 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY16 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY16 Aug 2014 4Q/FY15 1Q/FY16 TBD 2Q/FY15 1Q/FY16 Jun 2014 1Q/FY15 1Q/FY15 2Q/FY16 2Q/FY15 1Q/FY15 1Q/FY15 2Q/FY15

Award 4Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 1Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 4Q/FY17 2Q/FY16 1Q/FY15 1Q/FY15 1Q/FY17 1Q/FY18 4Q/FY16 4Q/FY17 4Q/FY16 2Q/FY16 2Q/FY16 4Q/FY14 2Q/FY15 1Q/FY16 1Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 1Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 1Q/FY17 Feb 2015 2Q/FY16 4Q/FY16 TBD 1Q/FY16 3Q/FY16 3Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 3Q/FY16 1Q/FY16 2Q/FY15 2Q/FY15 3Q/FY15

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Air Force Training Systems Product Group A-10 Aircrew Training System $98M Jan 2015 Nov 2015 bridger.lord.1@us.af.mil B-52 Training Systems $250M Oct 2014 Aug 2016 phillip.hangen@us.af.mil F-16 Training Systems $273M Jun 2016 4Q/FY17 darryl.williams@us.af.mil KC-10 Training Systems $191M 1Q/FY15 FY 2016 colleen.albertson@us.af.mil KC-46 Maintenance Train System $500M Jul 2014 4Q/FY15 daniel.andresa@us.af.mil Hypobaric Altitude Chambers $8M Feb 2015 Sep/2015 bill.oswald@wpafb.af.mil T-1A Ground Based Training Sys. $30M Jul 2014 Jun 2015 kerisha.wordlaw.1@us.af.mil T-38C Aircrew Training Device $31M Jul 2014 Jun 2015 kerisha.wordlaw.1@us.af.mil Marine Corps PMTRASYS MAGTF Tactical Warfare Sim $20M 4Q/FY 14 1Q/FY15 pmtrasys@usmc.mil Ground Range Sustainment $2.5M 4Q/FY14 4Q/FY14 pmtrasys@usmc.mil Combined Arms Command and Control Train Upgrade $45M 3Q/FY14 4Q/FY14 pmtrasys@usmc.mil Virtual Training Systems Support $43M 3Q/FY14 1Q/FY15 pmtrasys@usmc.mil Marine Corps Tactics and Operation s Group (MCTOG) $37M 4Q/FY14 2Q/FY15 pmtrasys@usmc.mil Distance Learning (DL) $25M 1Q/FY15 4Q/FY15 pmtrasys@usmc.mil Atmospherics (ATMOS) $20M 1Q/FY15 3Q/FY15 pmtrasys@usmc.mil Underwater Egress Train System $20M 4Q/FY15 4Q/FY16 pmtrasys@usmc.mil

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Interview

Brigadier General Dzintars Roga.

Image credit: ACT.

Brigadier General Dzintars Roga A major topic at ITEC 2014 was the emerging changes in military operations, shifting focus from operational engagement to operational preparedness. Brigadier General Dzintars Roga, Latvian Armed Forces, the Allied Command Transformation’s Assistant Chief of Staff Joint Education, Training and Exercise (JETE), spoke with MS&T’s Walter F. Ullrich.

MS&T: Post-Afghanistan, attention is returning to prepare for the full spectrum of contingencies. What role will Allied Command Transformation (ACT) play?

Brigadier General Dzintars Roga: Allied Command Transformation focused on the future for NATO and its partners.

Our role is to advise and prepare for the challenges ahead. Within ACT, we have different divisions leading various strands working on new coalition networks, strategic and political engagements, and of course, preparing our forces both NATO and national for any situation we can perceive. ACT provides to NATO leadership and especially to Allied Command Operations the vision to prepare and provide practical solutions to challenges set by our leaders and nations.

An example of our new approach is the recently conducted Trident Jaguar 14, this article 5 exercise (planned long before the Ukraine crisis), successfully tested the rapid response capabilities of our forces, providing a scenario which built upon our ability to deploy at short notice anywhere in the world and be prepared for any contingency. The lessons learned from that exercise are already being developed into the next iterations, to ensure we keep expanding and improving our capabilities.

MS&T: The Connected Forces Initia-

tive was broadly discussed during ITEC 2014. Could you briefly explain what CFI means for training?

DR: The Connected Forces Initiative (CFI) is all about being ready and prepared. Its goal is to have modern, tightly connected forces that are properly equipped, trained and exercised by the year 2020. The key CFI objectives are to build and maintain NATO’s combat effectiveness through expanded education and training, increased exercises and better use of technology. This NATO mandate also includes continuing the excellent work and cooperation we have had with our partner nations, to ensure that as we move from an operational engagement to operational preparedness, we involve our partners fully and ensure in any future operations we are ready to work together effectively.

Exercises such as Trident Juncture 2015, will provide the linkage to train the new NATO Command Structure and NATO Force Structure to operate effectively together, as well as the mechanism to certify the NATO Response Force and our Joint Force Commands. It will be a comprehensive, high-intensity crisis response exercise based on a challenging scenario.

CFI is the biggest challenge we have faced in the education and training area,

one that will ensure we evolve our structures and organisations as well as our use of education and training technology.

MS&T: Some of the ITEC panels noted the unpredictability of future threats.

What should training under these circumstances look like? And what will JETE contribute?

DR: One part of our ongoing commitment is to ensure we meet the current demands of our leaders for preparation of our troops; another part is to include aspects in the training to ensure our soldiers can “think outside the box” and be ready for any unplanned situation they find themselves in. By ensuring they are totally familiar with their NATO operational systems and doctrine, we can then add unusual or challenging situations for which there may be no doctrine or policy. As the lead planner and coordinator of NATO exercises, JETE can ensure we prepare for all eventualities. By utilising simulation and distributed training, we can take our forces into situations virtually, creating scenarios where the consequences of an action can be discussed and solutions learned without the real life consequences. One must bear in mind, the balance between “simulated” and “live” training which brings its own challenges, but combined will produce an improved capability.

MS&T: In September 2012, Lieutenant General Karlheinz Viereck, then ACT’s Deputy Chief of Staff Joint Force Trainer, announced the start of NATO’S new Training Management System. Where is it today?

DR: The NATO Training Management System initiated by General Viereck in 2012 is well on track. Our individual training management system, the Electronic Individual Education & Training Programme (e-ITEP), has reached FOC, enabling NATO and national forces to look up all known online NATO and national courses to support their needs, as well as provide to management our future training needs and gaps. Our individual and collective training is now streamlined and co-ordinated to be more efficient and complementary, and the changes in our global approach to education and training have resulted in a stronger bond with national and NATO education and training centres. We still have a lot of work to do, but it links closely to our CFI goals so it will remain a priority for us to fully implement. mst M S & T M A G A Z INE 3 / 4 . 2 0 1 3

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Show Report

MS&T's Walter Ullrich and Dim Jones visit the RUAG stand at this year's show.

Image credit: Elke Ullrich.

ITEC 2014 MS&T Europe Editor Dim Jones reports on this year’s exhibition and conference.

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ow an established event for a quarter of a century, this year’s ITEC took place between 20th and 22nd May 2014 in Cologne. The theme ‘From Engagement to Preparedness’ reflected the currently changing stance in military operations worldwide, specifically the planned withdrawal from Afghanistan which, for over a decade, has commanded the attention of many of the nations participating in ITEC 2014.

The venue, Koelnmesse, was the same as three years previously, although the event hall used this time was much more spacious, and provided a pleasant environment for the show. The convenient central location also obviated many of the transport problems associated with the more remote 2013 venue.

The Conference Chair, DeLloyd Voorhees, Vice President Business Development at General Dynamics Information Technology, welcomed the 570+ conference delegates. In his interesting keynote address, Vice-Admiral Heinrich Lange, Director of Forces Policy at the German Ministry of Defence, drew attention to the increased need for realistic exercises, but also sounded a note of caution that we could become ‘overexercised but under-trained’. Our track record in predicting the location and 28

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nature of future conflicts was not impressive, yet we had to be prepared for almost anything anywhere. Recent events in Ukraine had highlighted just how quickly a political crisis could develop into one where military intervention – or at least, a heightened defensive posture – could be required. The Admiral highlighted the need to expand the traditional capability envelope to make the soldier fit to act within multinational parameters in a more complex environment. “There will be a need for higher and more specialised qualifications in the area of soft skills, such as language proficiency, team skills and cross-culture competency”, he said. Lange also praised the progress made by the Alliance’s Combined Forces Initiative (CFI) and the “Smart Defence” programme which, in conjunction with complementary national enterprises such as Germany’s Framework Nation Project, promises a more coherent training offering within NATO.

Senior Officers’ Panel The subsequent Senior Officers’ Panel, was the best I have attended thus far, due in no small part to excellent moderation

by Rear Admiral Simon Williams, Chairman of Clarion Defence & Security who, for the first time in some years, allowed

sufficient time for questions from the floor. The panel comprised Vice-Admiral Lange, Major General Richard Longo, Deputy Commander, US Army Europe, Brigadier General Dzintars Roga, Latvian Army, currently Assistant Chief of Staff Joint Education, Training & Exercises, Allied Command Transformation, and Mr Frank Thieser, Director of Business Development Strategy for Reiser Systemteknik GmbH. They offered some interesting perspectives on a variety of topics, including the pertinent observations that: “future conflicts will not be ‘state-onstate’, but ‘state on non-state (e.g. terrorism or organised crime)”; “multi-nationality is not a weakness, but a strength”; and “everybody wants co-ordination, but no-one wants to be co-ordinated”.

The 2½-day conference agenda, which was programmed in two streams, built upon last year’s successful model.

Sessions were structured into distinct themes covering all major areas of the military training and simulation field: Military Operations, M&S Technologies & Architectures, Civil Support, Cyber, Innovative Learning Technologies, Medical Training and Human Performance and Education. ITEC once again demonstrated that, in terms of the quality of the speakers, it stands up well in comparison with I/ITSEC. There were those, however, who wondered why it was an American and not a European who chaired this European conference.

Exhibition The exhibition itself was quite small; some of the big names, absent in Rome returned to the fold, albeit some major companies had relatively modest presences at this ITEC. The trend for the smaller companies to display on someone else’s stand continued, and underlined the theme of partnership, which was evident throughout the exhibition.

Among absentees I noted were Cubic and Transas, although one of the latter’s maritime trainers was on display on the Barco stand. The only no-show from the German S&T industry was Krauss-Maffei Wegmann who, apparently, had given full priority to Eurosatory.

Rheinmetall – for whom this was

something of a ‘home game’ – had a stand sized accordingly, and showcased almost the entire S&T portfolio, encompassing the Leopard Gunnery Skills Trainer, the LEGATUS-Live Training System, the DISI Xtreme, Rheinmetall’s next-generation IG system, as well as tailor-made eLearning and multimedia training solutions by benntec Systemtechnik GmbH, which is part of the Rheinmetall group.

The Glenn Miller sound, produced by the Rheinmetall Simulation Big Band on the occasion of the ITEC hospitality evening, certainly drew at least as much attention as the hardware displayed on the stand.

Airbus Defence and Space, a division of the Airbus Group only recently formed by combining the activities of Cassidian, Astrium and Airbus Military, made a relatively strong appearance at ITEC. The company featured the outdoor version of the VRD (Virtual Rock Drill), a manportable ruggedised tactics trainer. Even more impressive was a demonstration of the Close Air Support, Forward Air Controller and Joint Fire Support Team full mission training in a virtual environment.

Integrated into that training was the UAS MTT (Unmanned Aircraft System Mission and Tactics Trainer), which is based on Solus Air (Solutions for Unmanned Systems) developed by the German company Eurosimtec GmbH. Once again, Bohemia Interactive and VBS were much in evidence around the hall, featuring in displays on more than 20 other stands, and another half-dozen by partner companies on its own stand. The displays featured a mixture of VBS3 – rolled out at I/ITSEC 2013 – and its predecessor VBS2, shown by some exhibitors because this is the system in use by their customers.

Among the other major players, MASA announced recent integrations

ThyssenKrupp Marine Systems' Virtual Ship Training and Information System (ViSTIS®).

Image credit: Elke Ullrich.

of MASA LIFE, its recently released AI creative suite, into leading platforms including VBS and Unity3D, Selex ES displayed MINERVA ITS, Thales showcased the Voyager training facility at RAF Brize Norton, a joint venture with Cobham/FR Aviation and Rolls-Royce, CAE presented GlobalSim, a development of its GESI technology, and Raytheon showed its battlespace simulator, ABACUS. In addition, the Innovation Showcase, this year sponsored by MS&T, gave companies the opportunity to present new ideas and products to an exhibition floor audience.

Only very rarely does anybody bring a really new idea to ITEC these days.

One such, however, which caught the eye of my colleague, Walter Ullrich, was E-Blanks, a product of the company of the same name, based at Skien, southwest of Oslo. E-blanks is billed as ‘a very cost effective and environmentally friendly system that simulates the firing of live ammunition, using advanced electronics to replicate not only the sound but also the weapon’s recoil system and

muzzle flash, therefore maintaining the realistic feeling of live firing’. Built into the magazines and inserted into the muzzle, it can be mounted quickly onto any existing small arms. If E-Blanks lives up to its promise, we might finally have seen something truly innovative.

In terms of statistics, information from the organisers is that more than 3,150 attendees represented 53 nations, a blend of industry, academia and the military. This was a higher number than in 2013, albeit the number of exhibitors – 114 – was lower, and neither reached the record-breaking numbers of 2011.

Although we are told that many of the attendees had ‘influence in purchasing’, I suspect that the main advantages of this event were networking and partnership, rather than sales. Although modest in size, the vast majority of exhibitors MS&T spoke to were more than happy with the value of the show; the overall volume of visitors may not have been as high as it has been for previous ITECs, but they were satisfied that they had seen the people that they wanted to see and that, even on Day 1 – traditionally slow, since the show is not open to delegates until lunchtime – they had been kept busy.

“We had no rush of people, but those who came were highly qualified visitors,” said one senior exhibitor. Many companies, remarked on the upturn in business in the past year, prominent among them Saab, who highlighted new contracts in Finland, the US and the UK. In sum, this was an enjoyable event, which certainly seemed to meet the expectations of exhibitors and delegates alike. The ITEC community will reconvene at the PVO Expo, Prague, between 28th and 30th April 2015. See you there. mst

An Emergent Company at ITEC 2014 Two ex-Tornado GR4 pilots and instructors at the UK’s Joint Forward Air Control Training and Standards Unit (JFACTSU) formed Close Air Solutions (CAS), based in North Yorkshire. The company intends to address the dilemma of nations who have a requirement to train FACs, but may not have the resources or the need to maintain an indigenous training capability. CAS proposes a ‘power-by-the-hour’ solution for all aspects of FAC training, providing experienced and qualified instructors to deliver classroom instruction, through simulation to live flying exercises.

A proportion of the live flying controls required for qualification

under the NATO STANAG 3797 and the US JTAC MoA can already be completed in a suitable simulator, and advances in affordable simulation technology and fidelity suggest that this capability could be extended. The company HQ in Newby Hall, an historic country house near Ripon, provides excellent classroom and simulation facilities, plus some 4000 acres of grounds in which tactical live flying exercises can be carried out using low-cost platforms equipped with very capable sensors. CAS plan to start their first courses later this year. Watch this space.

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Seen&Heard A compendium of current news from the military simulation and training industry, compiled and edited by news editor Fiona Greenyer and the MS&T editorial team. For the latest breaking news and in-depth reports go to www.halldale.com.

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C-130J Sims Updated

OneSAF Software The Cole Engineering Services, Inc. (CESI) One Semi-Automated Forces (OneSAF) Team recently delivered OneSAF Version 6.1 software to the Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI).

OneSAF International Version 6.1 is a training product focused on Battalion Echelon Operations, supporting Battalion level staff training which enables virtual training and Mission Command systems interoperability and fair fight.

PILOT TRAINING

Complementary Training Products The UK Royal Air Force's (RAF) two C-130J dynamic mission simulators located at RAF Brize Norton are readyfor-training following a major visual system upgrade. The upgrade, which included the addition of the latest generation CAE Medallion™ 6000 image generator and Liquid Crystal on Silicon (LCoS) high-resolution projectors, was completed to a challenging schedule for the Royal Air Force. CAE is also delivering a suite of databases built to the Com-

mon Database (CDB) standard, which is an open database architecture that is rapidly updateable and enables correlated distributed mission training.

In addition, CAE has installed a new flat panel display system on the RAF’s C-130J flight training device (FTD). The FTD, which previously did not include a visual system, now features the CAE Medallion 6000 image generator on a 30-degree vertical by 170-degree horizontal field-of-view flat panel display system.

VISUAL SYSTEM

Four-Channel IG System Concurrent Computer Corporation’s real-time Linux® solutions business, and Diamond Visionics LLC have announced the availability of ImaGen Powered by GenesisIG, a new 4-channel image generation system for high-performance simulation and training applications.

Concurrent and Diamond Visionics partnered to produce ImaGen Powered by GenesisIG. It provides a powerful 4-channel IG in a single, 4U enclosure. The new platform offers ultra-smooth rendering performance at Mach speeds while reducing cost, footprint and power consumption. ImaGen Powered by GenesisIG is also available in 1, 2 and 3-channel versions.

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AgustaWestland and Havelsan have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to collaborate and jointly market and sell their complementary training products and capabilities. Witnessed by the Turkish Undersecretary for Defense Industry, Dr. Ismail Demir, the MoU was signed by Mr. Sadik Yamac, CEO of Havelsan and Mr. Ross Kelly, AgustaWestland Head of Region for Turkey.

Mr Yamac said "Havelsan wishes to provide simulation and synthetic training systems, including information management solutions, in support of the various rotorcraft platforms purchased by the Turkish Government and International Defence and Government Customers.

This MoU is an important step towards achieving our aims in the rotorcraft training systems market."

The MoU will allow both parties to collaborate and enhance their businesses through the joint development of training solutions, including training systems and training centres, for a wide range of customers.

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UAS TRAINING

Follow-On Contract

UAS Officer Training

Cubic Defense Systems has been awarded a follow-on contract worth more than $35 million for support and repair of the area weapons effects simulator (AWES) system at the Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in the UK and the British Army Training Unit Suffield (BATUS) in Alberta, Canada. AWES and its integrated Tactical Engagement Simulator (TES) system simulates largescale force-on-force combat exercises, including the effects of direct fire, artillery, mortar fire, mines and air-delivered munitions as well as nuclear, biological and chemical weapons.

The US Marine Corps plans to add Raven UAS instruction into its basic officer courses later this year. Thirteen instructors of The Basic School (TBS) officer course completed their own training at Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Virginia, where they learnt how to operate, maintain and integrate the RQ-11B Raven small UAS into their upcoming basic school curriculum. The course was led by a team from the Navy and Marine Corps Small Tactical Unmanned Aircraft Systems (PMA-263) Training and Logistics Support Activity (TALSA).

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Cultural Training Scenarios In some cultures, the smallest gestures can create the biggest misunderstandings. A village elder invites a commander to his home to learn about the community and is deeply offended when the soldier interacts with his wife, thanking her for tea without his permission. That simple affront can unknowingly cause distrust and undermine relationship building.

Aptima, which applies expertise in how humans think, learn and perform have developed a tool to help turn such experi-

ences from the field into lessons that can benefit other warfighters. The Authoring

By Cultural Demonstration (ABCD) tool creates cultural training scenarios that combine cognitive science, technology and commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) scenario-authoring tools. The software allows warfighters and instructors to quickly script and transform real-world incidents into animated vignettes for game-based training, with minimal technical knowhow. To facilitate scenario-creation, ABCD

includes a library of culturally-relevant assets, including physical locations, avatars, and props. When the storyboard is complete, ABCD’s AI-based cinematographic software renders the vignette in an artificial 3D environment. This machine-generated animated scenario, or “machinima,” can run on any gaming engine. The soldier can also specify branching interactions that involve choice and consequence for a more interactive training experience for the game-player.

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WIN-T $59 Million Contract General Dynamics C4 Systems has received a $59 million contract from the US Army for new Warfighter Information Network – Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 vehicles and related network products to support Army soldier training. The new equipment includes Soldier Network Extension (SNE) and Point-of-Presence (PoP) vehicles that will have updated software that simplifies network operations. The vehicles and products will be folded into the Army's new systemof-systems training curriculum at the Army's LandWarNet School in Fort Gordon, Ga. Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T) Increment 2 is the Army’s primary tactical network modernization program that provides a mobile, secure communications backbone. It provides a single integrated tactical network, initial on-the-move capability and a mobile infrastructure.

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JIEDDO Training Support CACI International Inc. is one of four companies competitively awarded a multiple-award blanket purchase agreement (BPA), with a total estimated value of $408 million, if all options are exercised, to provide training support for the Department of Defense's Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organisation (JIEDDO).

Under the terms of the award made by the General Services Administration (GSA) Federal Systems Integration and Management Center (FEDSIM), CACI will provide individual, collective, and unit Counter-Improvised Explosive Device (C-IED) training and training-related support for the Joint Center of Excellence (JCOE) Joint Counter IED Integration Training Pro-

gram (JCITP). The five-year BPA awarded against GSA's Federal Supply Schedules represents new work for CACI. The JCOE is JIEDDO's lead organization for the train-theforce line of operation and is responsible for development of training capabilities that enable the services' and combatant commanders' mission of preparing US forces to defeat the IED threat as a weapon of strategic influence. It facilitates individual, collective, and unit C-IED training; enables the development and use of new tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP); and offers a venue for training and support for the experimentation and testing of emerging C-IED equipment and concepts.

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TRAINING SERVICES

F-16 Pilot Training

Naval Warfare Training

The US State Department has approved a possible Foreign Military Sale to Singapore for F-16 pilot training and associated equipment, parts, training and logistical support for an estimated cost of $251 million.

The Government of Singapore has requested a possible sale of follow-on support and services for Singapore’s Continental United States (CONUS) detachment PEACE CARVIN II (F-16) based at Luke AFB for a five-year period.

Singapore needs this training and equipment to support its F-16 aircraft.

The continuation of this training program will enable Singapore to develop mission-ready and experienced F-16 pilots.

The pilot proficiency training program at Luke Air Force Base will support professional interaction and enhance operational interoperability with US forces.

CAE has been awarded a contract from Forsvarets Materielverk (FMV), the Swedish Defence Materiel Administration, to provide a comprehensive Naval Warfare Training System for the Swedish Navy. The Naval Warfare Training System (NWTS) will be delivered in late 2015 to the Swedish Naval Warfare Centre in Karlskrona, Blekinge, Sweden.

The NWTS will be a comprehensive, simulation-based system that includes simulation software, hardware, wargaming consoles, and instructor operator stations that will be used to train and educate Swedish Navy sailors and officers in naval tactics, procedures and doctrine.

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control, communications, computers (C4) and weapon systems. The training solution will allow the Swedish Navy to train and rehearse for operations in antiair warfare (AAW), anti-surface warfare (ASuW), anti-submarine warfare (ASW), mine warfare (MW) and search and rescue (SAR).

The CAE-developed NWTS will be provided as three classroom training systems. Each classroom will include student workstations and instructor positions for creating, managing and monitoring training exercises. The student workstations will include a range of core CAE simulation technologies, such as simulation systems for sonar, radar and computer-generated forces.

The synthetic marine environment will be built to the CAE-developed Common Database (CDB) standard.

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MH-60R Trainers Ready for Training

Three new CAE MH-60R tactical operational flight trainers (TOFT) built by the company for the United States Navy have been declared ready-for-training and entered service for the Navy. The MH-60R TOFTs entered service at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Naval Station Mayport, and Marine Corps Base Hawaii formerly Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay. All three TOFTs are fixed-based simulators that are used to train pilots, co-pilots and sensor operators in the complete range of missions flown by the MH-60R helicopter.

In addition to these three new MH-60R TOFTs, CAE USA also recently delivered an MH-60R/S TOFT to Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan. This simulator is the first-of-its-kind and is reconfigurable between the MH-60S and MH-60R helicopter platforms. It is currently undergoing installation and integration testing, and will be ready-for-training later this summer.

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Havok Expands Content Library Havok™ has expanded the extensive content library in its Havok Simulation Framework™. The recent additions include a completely new Environment Library, which has representations for buildings, plants and environmental clutter. These models have been built by the Rocketbox Studios™ team to the same exacting standards as their industryrenowned Rocketbox Character Library.

The Rocketbox Character Library has been further expanded to include more than 30 new character models in HD quality, raising the total number of integrated modular characters to 166. These base models are highly customizable allowing developers to easily assemble thousands of unique character models by changing headgear, modular equipment, camouflage patterns, badges and other unique identifiers. Furthermore, 15 high quality animal models with individual animation sets have been integrated with Havok technology. All the models also take advantage of the latest advancements in 3D visualization such as the Havok Vision Engine® to reflect visual wear and tear through the use of dirt and damage shaders, and all content is enhanced with dynamic textures and materials for infrared/night vision rendering out of the box.

UAS TRAINING

UAS Partnership UMS Group and eurosimtec GmbH have partnered on UAS training and mission rehearsal systems. Both companies have agreed to jointly help UAS customers meet their training and mission rehearsal needs by offering a generic, scalable UAS Mission & Training System.

The companies say their combination of skills, expertise and experience will give customers and UAS operators a unique opportunity for cost effective, customized and high quality training and mission rehearsal. The partners believe modeling and simulation systems will provide additional opportunities for mission planning, operations and de-briefing in the future, and that their partnership will drive the use of modeling and simulation technologies to help UAV customers to optimize their UAS operations.

MESAS ‘14 The NATO Modelling & Simulation Centre of Excellence in Rome held the first edition of MESAS ’14, the Modelling & Simulation Workshop for Autonomous Systems, to great success on 5/6 May 2014. Around 200 internationally renowned professionals from the military, industry and academia gathered to explore what role modelling and simulation (M&S) can play when it comes to integrating autonomous capabilities into operational systems. Complementing the speakers, 12 specialised manufacturers exhibited related products such as autonomous robot systems and simulators.

Many experts assume that autonomous systems will, in the very near future, no longer require human action. There was consensus that M&S appears ideally suited to studying the potentials, applications and risks of autonomous systems – especially when it comes to achieving a high level of reliability. More specifically, Dr. Andreas Tolk, Chief Scientist SimIS Inc., Old Dominion University Norfolk, United States, noted in his keynote that the taxonomy of agents as used in agent-based modelling is equivalent to the taxonomy of autonomous systems. This would allow the systems’ engineering processes to be migrated and successfully applied to agent-based systems, and for them to be used for autonomous capabilities as well.

In conclusion, the workshop revealed that M&S can play an important role in developing systems with autonomous capabilities – from purely technical matters to legal issues – everything is feasible.

According to Maj. Gen. Francesco Langella, Deputy Technical Director of Armaereo and MESAS ’14 General Chairman, it is not only the armed forces which need such autonomous systems, but the police and civil organizations too. – Walter F. Ullrich MS&T MAGAZINE 3/4.2014

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The German Army Officer School

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In the run-up to ITEC 2014, Europe Editor Dim Jones accepted an invitation from CAE and the Bundeswehr to visit the German Army Officer School in Dresden, specifically to see their Command and Staff Training (CAST) system in operation.

The School, named for Graf Claus von Stauffenberg – leader of the failed plot of 20th July 1944 – moved from Hannover to its present location in 1998, and is the central training facility for all officer candidates and Army officers. Among a variety of courses, the School hosts 2 of the 7 phases of Bundeswehr officer training: Officer Course 1(OL1), which lasts 3 months, and comes immediately after basic training; and OL2, which runs for a further 3 months and takes place after the 4-year Bachelor or Master’s Degree university courses. The whole training cycle lasts 5½ years, and comprises instruction in military fitness, civic education, military history and law, and C2 on operations; OL1 familiarises the candidates with the subjects, and OL2 applies them in leadership training. The School has a staff of 285, and a student population of up to 3500, including 1000 on the initial officer courses.

The CAE CAST system is called GESI (GEfechts-SImulation System), and is known in the Bundeswsehr as SIRA. Since its inception in 1995, at which point it provided for 2 parties and 2000 entities, it has been developed to the 2006 version (GESI Smartt) which can manage 12 parties and 32000 entities. A product improvement programme (GESI pip) has been running from 2009 and is due to terminate in 2015, providing architectural redesign and functional enhancements. The School is only one of the GESI customers, which include other Bundeswehr units, and organisations in Norway, Poland, Italy, Austria, Ireland and Finland. These comprise 12 C&S Training systems (used at Battalion, Regiment and Brigade levels), 12 Classroom Trainers and one Emergency Management Trainer.

The GESI constructive simulation aims to provide an interaction of entities (ie vehicles, aircraft and vessels), and individuals (soldiers, groups, humans), operating in an interactive, high-resolution simulated environment, driven by operator inputs and displaying a realistic mission environment in real time. At the school, GESI is used in 2 distinct applications: the first is the Classroom Trainer, known as SITA, which provides individual education and training in C2 on operations; the second is SIRA (CAST), which encompasses collective training at Battalion level for students on OL2, and in which they role-play the various agencies involved. Each scenario is briefed and discussed in the classroom, before the students are shown the real exercise terrain. The students also act as the system operators, proficiency in which is not a course objective, but which provides them with good knowledge of the system and additional learning from observation of the actions and decisions of their course colleagues.

The After-Action Review (AAR) is integral to the learning process.

The staff is adamant that GESI, in both its forms, is used only for education, and not for evaluation. It was also noteworthy that the students only role-play at levels higher than those which they will assume on graduation (ie Company and Battalion, rather than troop).

In sum, this was an instructive and entertaining visit, providing an insight into both GESI in operation and the philosophy of the Bundeswehr Officer School.

A Battelle-led team has been awarded a $21.5 million contract to assist United States Pacific Command (USPACOM) J7 Training and Exercises Directorate in planning, rehearsing, conducting, and assessing a comprehensive program of joint service and partner nation training and exercise events and related activities, such as table top exercises, senior leader seminars, and interoperability workshops.

Under the three-year contract, Battelle will provide support to USPACOM J7 as it participates in an average of 21 Joint Exercises per year and an estimated total of 140 Joint Event Life Cycle events. The Battelle team is a collaboration of three companies, Battelle, Cubic, and Native Hawaiian Veterans (NHV), which provide a wide range of capabilities and expertise supporting national defense for combatant commands, services, and other government agencies such as the intelligence community, law enforcement, and civilian federal agencies.

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SOFTWARE

SilverLining 3.0 Upgrade Sundog Software has released version 3.0 of SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK for developers of training simulations and video games. “SilverLining 3.0 offers the best of all worlds for 3D clouds in virtual environments," said Frank Kane, CEO of Sundog. "We've combined photorealistic cloud images with our proprietary tricks for making clouds feel truly 3D as you fly around and through them. The result is clouds that look photographic from a distance, and still look and behave like real clouds up close. Flight simulators, and any game that takes place outdoors, can use our technology to make their skies feel more real."

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Development Partnership TrianGraphics GmbH has entered into a partnership with Havok, a provider of 3D simulation technology, to usher in the creation of more efficient and creative tools to the simulation market. In recent years, gaming technology has considerably improved the visual fidelity of interactive simulation. However, there has been a lack of modeling tools that can produce large-scale virtual environments with high quality visuals, a high degree of automation and meta-data required to simulate these complex environments. TrianGraphics' database generation system, Trian3DBuilder, has filled this gap and now offers support for the Havok Vision Engine.

Through the cooperation with Havok, Trian3DBuilder expands its capability to support modern simulation environments and state of the art technologies. Henceforth Trian3DBuilder databases can also be exported to Havok's Vision Engine format and can be run in Havok's toolset for the simulation of most realistic environments for serious games.

TRAINING SUPPORT

TRAINING DEVICES

US Joint Forces Development Program

Dyess AFB Dedicates C-130J Simulator

General Dynamics Information Technology has won a contract supporting the US Joint Staff J7 (Director, Joint Forces Development) to provide operational support services to the Joint Forces Development program. The contract has a potential value of $876.9 million over five years to all seven awardees, if all options are exercised.

General Dynamics will provide continuously adaptive education, training assessments, experimentation and infrastructure for training and real-world operations that serve as the foundation of learning for joint force development. Specific tasks include concept development and planning; logistics; modeling and simulation; architecture design; model management and operations; scenario development; distributed learning and courseware development; event response and control cells and facility operations. The company will also develop future joint training environments and test and evaluate new equipment.

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Dyess Air Force Base in Texas has received a $26 million C-130J Super Hercules simulator with Vital-10 technology. Vital-10 is an advanced visual display package with a higher resolution and a more realistic display.

The base was the first installation to receive the simulator and 317th Airlift Group held a dedication ceremony there for it.

"One great aspect about the simulator is that we can alter the location, weather, variables, altitude and threats on the spot," said Maj. Seth Schwesinger, 317th Operations Support Squadron chief of group training. "It gives us the flexibility to pause at a certain point to provide instruction, rewind the scenario and try it again."

The cost to run the simulator is an estimated $850 an hour, a savings of $1,500 compared to an approximated flying cost of $2,300 an hour, which will allow the 317th Airlift Group to save an approximate $3 million annually. The simulator will also save the group approximately $400,000 annually in personnel and travel costs by conducting required training on site.

The new simulator is a proven tool used to build and maintain operator proficiency in the aircraft throughout multiple mission sets, including those not readily available during local flying, Schwesinger said.

The simulator is capable of different tactical training scenarios, including specific threat generators, which instructors are able to place along certain locations of a route – and the instructor has the option to “damage” or “shut down” the simulated aircraft if the aircrew didn't successfully react using the prescribed tactics.

"Aircrews have an additional factor to deal with in crew resource management to solve a threat and a tactical situation with a lack of resources presented in an emergency training scenario," Schwesinger said.

Other C-130J units will be able to use the new simulator that offers repeated training opportunities without wasting fuel, manpower or maintenance, according to Maj. Will Soto, the 317th OSS director of operations.

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Second UK A400M FFS

Logistics Command Staff Training

Airbus Defence and Space has awarded Thales a multi-million pound contract to supply the Royal Air Force (RAF) with a second full flight simulator (FFS) for the Airbus A400M military transport aircraft. The FFS employs state-of-the-art visual and motion technology developed and produced by Thales that represents the current production cockpit configuration of the Airbus A400M aircraft and simulates the ground and flight operations of the aircraft in various natural and tactical environments.

It includes an enhanced field-of-view visual system that can support training in all aircraft manoeuvres, including air-to-air refuelling and low-level tactical operations.

Both simulators will help train aircrews at the RAF Brize Norton training school in Oxfordshire. A400M Training Services Ltd. (ATSL), a joint venture company formed by Thales and Airbus Defence and Space, manages the support services and maintenance.

Training solutions have traditionally focused upon tactical scenarios, neglecting logistics command posts requirements. Recognizing this need, MASA Group made the decision to develop advanced logistics models for its flagship product. The developments are integrated in the latest release of SWORD. As a result, SWORD will be the very first solution to provide state-of-the-art simulation capabilities to train logistics command staff.

The new SWORD release includes automatically or manually controlled maintenance options in conjunction with innovative supply logistics systems. Through a purpose-designed graphical user interface logistics officers are able to monitor key indicators such as the serviceability status of vehicles, weapon systems, or basic loads of vehicles and infantry sections. They can respond appropriately to requests and arrange for the re-supply of key requirements, provide equipment repairs, or monitor casualty evacuation. Information that can be typically displayed includes the supply level of petrol, oil and lubricants, ammunition, rations, water, casualties and equipment breakdowns.

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Aviation Training Contract BAE Systems will continue delivering military aviation training to the Royal Brunei Air Force (RBAF), with the signing of a contract to train six students across three courses during 2014-15.

BAE Systems has been training RBAF pilots since 2009, when two students started basic flying training. The relationship has deepened, with the RBAF putting students through other training packages, including basic helicopter, multi-engine and instructor training. During the past five years, RBAF students have graduated from 10 different military aviation courses offered at BAE Systems Flight Training Tamworth Academy in NSW, Australia.

6th Future Military Pilot Training Conference For quite some time the ILA Berlin Air Show was regarded as the poor cousin of the air shows in Paris and Farnborough. In recent years, however, ILA attracted more visitors and media than Farnborough. Even more importantly, the Berlin Air Show has established itself as the world’s leading conference event for the aerospace industry. Almost 40 conferences, symposia, workshops and special meetings ran in parallel to the exhibition.

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organiser, and Major General (Ret.) Hans Jürgen Merkle, the conference chair, opened the two-day event.

The 6th FMPT covered four major themes: fixed wing aircraft, fast jet trainer, and rotary wing aircraft, as well as full flight simulators and training centres. The keynote address was given by Brigadier General Günther Katz, Head of Division Air, GAF Operations Command, who gave an overview of the EURO NATO Joint Jet Pilot Training (ENJJPT), which has been producing combat pilots for NATO for more than 30 years.

The well-balanced mix of German and international speakers, as well as the highly topical lectures showed what is possible if you think “outside of the

box”. Speakers from the German and British air forces briefed the audience on their approaches to flight training for air operations. Academics elaborated research results on mission readiness training and stressed the value of incorporating cognitive and action fidelity into advanced competency training. Industry representatives explained their perspective of fast jet pilot training. In yet another presentation, a representative of the European Defence Agency in Brussels talked about EDA’s international helicopter training programmes.

All in all, FMPT is certainly not the biggest conference at ILA, but it is always an exquisite, high-class meeting.

– Walter F. Ullrich

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COMPANY NEWS

$65 Million Task Order

European Cooperation

Cubic Worldwide Technical Services (CWTS) has been awarded a task order under the US Navy's Fielded Training Systems Support (FTSS) III Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract to provide operations and maintenance support of aviation training devices for the MH-60R, MH-60S and other aircraft. The five year program is worth more than $65 million to CWTS. Operations and maintenance support will be provided at NAS North Island, California, NAS Jacksonville and NS Mayport, Florida, NS Norfolk and MCBF Quantico, Virginia,and MCBH Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii. This task order also provides simulator and academic instruction for Navy helicopter pilots and aircrew at NAS North Island and MCAF Quantico.

At ITEC 2014 the European Training and Simulation Association (ETSA) expanded its activities further into Eastern Europe by signing an Agreement with Bulgarian Modeling and Simulation Association (BULSIM) for dissemination of benefits and knowledge in the field of modeling, simulation and training. The agreement was signed by Nikolay Tomov, chairman of the BULSIM Management Committee and Graham McIntyre, chairman of ETSA. ETSA and BULSIM will cooperate to encourage imagination and innovation in training and will join efforts to represent the interests of the European training and simulation community to European institutions.

SOFTWARE

Procedural Model Generation Service GameSim Inc.’s Procedural Model Generation Service (PMGS) will provide high-quality models to external simulation systems without the need for a large hand-created library. PMGS accomplishes this by generating 3D models procedurally on-demand, and focuses on generating distinct 3D models for buildings, vehicles, and life forms.

Previously, large hand-created art libraries were utilized that required hours of research and maintenance.

PMGS allows the static model creation process to be streamlined, which is able to save on labour costs by procedurally generating building, vehicle, and life form model libraries. This method provides a more efficient way of gen-

erating new content because it allows the user to skip the step of recreating an entire model library. Using a REST interface, PMGS is able to interact with other systems by communicating over a network. Additionally, PMGS allows models to be generated at multiple detail levels to fit the specific needs of a user.

TRAINING SYSTEMS

Customized Simulation Systems Cubic Corporation has been awarded a contract valued at more than $4 million to provide customized instrumented tactical engagement simulation systems for a Turkish Government customer. The Multiple Integrated Laser Engagement System (MILES) creates a realistic, tactical, live training environment for soldiers and security forces training in the field against an

opposing force, and is designed for all specified terrain and climatic conditions. Delivery of the hardware and Command and Control (C2) software will be performed later this year. The equipment includes manworn and vehicle MILES kits, grenades, small arms and anti-tank laser engagement systems, portable C2 kits, and software.

CORRECTION

The German Simulation and Training Industry The article “The German Simulation and Training Industry”, in MS&T issue 2-2014, failed to include Thales, a major player. Thales Deutschland, headquartered in Stuttgart, is the group’s third largest subsidiary, and employs 3,800 people at 24 locations. The company is an integrated electronics corporation and systems house with a technology tradition in Germany for over 130 years, and offers its customers state-of-the-art, highly secure and ultra-reliable communications, information and control systems, as well as services for secure ground, air and sea transportation, for both civilian and military security and

protection needs. The company also develops and manufactures satellite components. Thales simulations systems cover everything from conventional shooting skills training to complete mission training for aircraft crews, including airborne refuelling and individual and group training for military users and civilian security agencies. The modularity of the various systems enables Thales to offer customers a customised environment with scenarios that combine all facets of their training requirements.

The Thales small arms training simulator SAGITTARIUS is standard equipment for the German Armed Forces,

other international Armed Forces and security companies. The German Armed Forces also use the Door Gunner training concept, which provides simulated mission training scenarios for helicopter security crews. Using the latest CryEngine© simulation technology, SAGITTARIUS provides both virtual and live firing training capability for individual and unit training. It can be linked to other systems and/or additional modules from the Sagittarius product line such as the Door Gunner, the Vehicle or the Boat Module. All modules can be provided with motion platforms. We apologize for this error. – The Editors MS&T MAGAZINE 3/4.2014

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Maintenance Training Academy Launch Reiser Simulation and Training and its partner AERO-Bildung have launched a joint military training center for aircraft technicians.

Reiser Training Academy (RTA) combines the high-end simulation and training devices of Reiser with the well-established training services of AERO-Bildung in order to provide efficient training services to customers worldwide.

RTA is located at AERO-Bildung's premises west of Munich at the Oberpfaffenhofen Airport. The facilities comprise of 15 classrooms equipped with multimedia tools, various laboratories, workshops (sheet metal, cable and connectors, riveting, composite) and 1,800 m² surface area dedicated to hands-on training.

Reiser Training Academy profits from AERO-Bildung's wide experience in providing maintenance training for the German Forces and Reiser's experience with training devices. In a first stage, RTA will offer NH90 type rating courses.

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TRAINING SUPPORT

Task Order URS Corporation has been awarded a five-year task order worth up to $343 million from the US Department of Defense to provide operations, maintenance and engineering support for the US Navy Combined Tactical Training Range (CTTR) systems and equipment.

The work will be performed at Naval Air Stations, Marine Corps Air Stations and Naval Air Facilities throughout the United States. URS will provide mission support for CTTR training and scheduled missions, maintenance support to ensure availability and longevity of training range systems and capabilities, and engineering and configuration management to enhance and sustain training range systems and capabilities.

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Simulator Census

Military Flight Simulators 2014 Compiled and analysed by Ian Strachan

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n mid-2014, the political and military situation in many areas of the world is more unstable than it has been for many years. At the same time, there have been defence cuts in many nations, although notably not in China and Russia; even so, there has been an increase both in numbers and simulator characteristics again this year.

We list nearly 2500 flight simulators for military aircraft that have outside-world visual and a full-size cockpit with primary flight controls. This is an increase of 115 over last year. As well as the increase in numbers, characteristics such as visual fidelity, field of view and network links are all better than ever. This is partially shown in this year’s abbreviated page layout, but can be seen more fully in the complete tables that are available in sortable Excel form for a fee from www.halldale.com/ sim-census.

It is no surprise to see the USA in the lead with over 1180 military flight simulators, 48% of the world total and a 5% increase over last year. Of these, the USAF has 570, Army 280 (mainly helicopters), Navy 220 and Marine Corps 70. A development this year is that 25 are from non-government organisations such as Boeing, CAE USA (Tampa) and L-3 Link.

The USA is followed by the UK, France and Russia which have increases between 11 and 14%. Russia has displaced Germany in fourth place, although the latter increased its simulator numbers. This is followed by small increases in Turkey and South Korea and small decreases in Italy and Japan.

Undoubtedly we have not been able to get data on all of the flight simulators used by the Russian military, so this figure will be an underestimate, like figures for other nations in which such data is considered sensitive. One way that simulator manufacturers allow for this is to list devices as "User not released". This allows them to list simulators produced and this year there are

nearly 50 of these, about 2% of the overall total. In the case of the People’s Republic of China, it has not been possible to obtain any meaningful figures and their position at the end of the table opposite is clearly "hypothetical". In the full version of the table there are no less than a further 42 nations, led by the Czech Republic, Jordan, Morocco and Nigeria, and including Colombia, Kazakhstan, Macedonia, Myanmar, Sudan and Yemen.

Turning to simulator manufacturers, as in previous years L-3 Link, headquartered in Arlington, Texas, is well in the lead, mainly based on contracts from the US military. Although there are few new Link military simulators this year there is considerable activity with updates and refurbishment. Meanwhile there are increased numbers by CAE, FlightSafety and Thales, whereas older Boeing simulators made at the exMcDonnell Douglas Training Systems (MDTS) plant in St Louis have been retired. Frasca of Illinois, Environmental Tectonics of Philadelphia and Austria Metall System Technik (AMST) all have more than last year. It may be significant that ETC and AMST are the only manufacturers in the world currently making centrifuges for pilot training,

Above As in previous years L-3 Link leads the way with 486 sims in service.

Image credit: L-3 Link.

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Simulator Census

Table 1: Military Flight Sims by Nation

Compared Sims Country %

to 2013 1183 USA 48.2 +51 136 UK 5.5 +14 131 France 5.3 +16 61 Russia 2.5 +6 59 Germany 2.4 +3 55 Turkey 2.2 +3

54 South Korea 2.2 +2 48 Italy 2.0 -4 48 Japan 2.0 -1 40 Canada 1.6 0

38 Saudi Arabia 1.5 +1 36 Sweden 1.5 +7 34 Netherlands 1.4 0 32 Australia 1.3 +3 30 Egypt 1.2 0 29 India 1.2 -2 29 Spain 1.2 +1 29 Taiwan 1.2 +1 23 UAE 0.9 +2 21 Brazil 0.9 0 20 Singapore 0.8 0 17 Belgium 0.7 -1 17 Malaysia 0.7 +6 16 Thailand 0.7 +3 15 Poland 0.6 +1 14 Switzerland 0.6 0 12 Iraq 0.5 +1 11 Israel 0.4 0

9 China 0.4 0

44 User not released 1.8

165 42 other Nations 6.7

and they also make disorientation trainers with full freedom in yaw. In addition to the manufacturers listed in the table, there are 35 others with military flight simulators in service; these come from Canada, China, Czech Republic, Germany, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Romania, Russia, Singapore, South Korea, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, UK, and the USA. So the world manufacturing base is both large and wide, and is clearly capable of producing whatever simulator-based training is required by the world's military in the future.

Turning now to the classes of aircraft, these are led by 1,100 simulators for Fighter/Ground Attack aircraft (FGA), followed by nearly 720 for helicopters, 360 for large multi-engined aircraft, 210 for basic trainers, 35 multi-role and 30 for UAVs. The Full Mission Simulators (FMS) for helicopters and large multi are generally to the civil Full Flight Simulator (FFS) standard. This has 6-axis motion for realistic handling qualities, distant-focus ("collimated") wide angle visual, and carefully set-up controls for handling fidelity. Some military FFS such as for the C-17 Globemaster III exceed civil standards, are sometimes known as "Level D Plus", and allow much conversion and refresher training to be "on the sim" rather than at much more expense on the aircraft.

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Table 2: Military Flight Sims by Manufacturer

Sims Manufacturer %

486 L-3 Link USA 19.8 284 CAE (Canada/Germany/USA) 11.6 241 Thales (France & UK) 9.8 174 FlightSafety (USA) 7.1 161 Boeing (USA, St Louis) 6.6 150 Lockheed Martin 6.1 83 Rockwell Collins 3.4 81 Environmental Tectonics (USA) 3.3 63 Frasca (USA) 2.6 52 Elbit (Israel) 2.1 50 CSTS Dinamika (Russia) 2.0 50 Sogitec (France) 2.0 46 Havelsan (Turkey) 1.9 40 Camber (USA) 1.6 36 AMST (Austria) 1.5 38 Indra (Spain) 1.5 31 Saab (Sweden) 1.3 28 Mitsubishi (Japan) 1.1 27 BAES (UK) 1.1 25 QinetiQ (UK) 1.0 26 AeroSim (USA) 1.1 27 Eurofighter ASTA 1.1 23 DoDaam (S Korea) 0.9 22 VRM (Slovakia) 0.9 212 35 other Manufacturers 8.6

Compared to 2013 2 22 37 24 -19 1 0 5 10 0 6 9 3 0 2 4 8 0 0 0 2 5 3 0

But what of other simulator characteristics; and how much can you tell from columns in the table? The full tables (available to download online) show the name of the Image Generator, the number of visual channels, field of view, motion cueing systems, and whether local or wide-area networking (LAN/ WAN) is available. From the name of the Image Generator you can find out the pixel count and the general quality of the image content. In combination with the display channels and field of view, the resolution of what the pilot sees can be established.

The motion cueing columns show the degrees of freedom of any motion platform, including whether full freedom in yaw is provided for disorientation training. In addition, vibrators, motion seats, G-suit inflation and G-dimming of the visual system, are all listed. So there is a lot of information in just a few columns.

These show that only 750 have motion platforms, the remaining 1700 being fixed-base. However, within the motion platforms there is a 15% increase in electric (compared to hydraulic), and in new-builds this is becoming the norm. Of other motion cueing devices, 150 simulators have vibration devices (mainly for helicopters), 140 have motion seats, and 85 have G-suit inflation when hard manoeuvre is computed; however, these are small numbers and it is surprising that more fighter simulators do not have these relatively low-cost systems.

Turning now to visual display, 3-channels are fitted to 780 simulators, followed by 400 with 5 channels. This is followed by 350 one channel Unit Training Devices (UTDs) for basic training.

At the other end there is a difference this year with a significant

increase in simulators 10 or more visual channels, 160 this year; these are generally in dome displays. 50 simulators have 18 channels and 16 have 25! In these large channel counts, target projectors will be included as well as those projecting topographic and sky imagery. However, this shows a significant trend towards more visual fidelity and field of view, particularly in simulators for FGA aircraft.

Finally, the full downloadable database lists simulators with either Local or Wide Area Networking (LAN/WAN). This year there has been a large increase to 430 with LAN and 720 with

WAN. It is the latter that is needed for training exercises that also include the simulators of other aircraft and can also include ground and naval forces, both from the host nation and others.

Not only simulators but live forces can also be used in highly realistic exercises using instrumentation in each simulator and force element, all connected by WAN. This is becoming recognised as the proper way to exploit the characteristics of a modern high-level simulator, particularly in training crews before deployment to combat areas. It is no coincidence that most new full mission devices are WAN-capable. mst

Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Visual Display ch IG channels w display windows CC Cross-cockpit Collimated C Collimated D Dome PD Partial Dome F Faceted back-projected Motion Axes 0-6, zero being fixed-base E Electric H Hydraulic V Vibrator(s) M Motion seat G Anti-G suit inflation D Dimming of visual at high G Y Freedom in yaw (yaw ring) NK Not known NA Not applicable General Abbreviations Aero Vod Aero Vodochody AFRL Air Force Research Laboratory (US) AgWest AgustaWestland AIDC Aerospace Industrial Development Corporation

Alenia Alenia Aermacchi AMST AMST Systemtechnik GmbH ARH Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter ASE Aeronautical Systems Engineering ASI Aero Simulation Inc. ATIL Aviation Training International Ltd. BAES BAE Systems BIAM Beijing Institute of Aviation Medicine Boeing Includes ex-McDonnell Douglas aircraft CAE India Pvt. Ltd. ex Macmet CAE USA includes ex Reflectone and BAE F&S CSC Computer Sciences Corporation EADS CASA Now Airbus Military EF ASTA Consortium Eurofighter Aircrew Synthetic Training Aids Consortium ETC Environmental Tectonics Corporation F2Si Fidelity Flight Simulation FATEC Fuji Aerospace Technology Co. Ltd. FHI Fuji Heavy Industries Ltd. FNPT Flight Navigation Procedures Trainer FSI FlightSafety International HATSOFF Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying HFTS Helicopter Flight Training Services GmbH HMD Head Mounted Display

HTMI Helicopter Training Media International GmbH IAI Israel Aircraft Industries IG Image Generator JFTI J.F. Taylor Inc. JSDF Japanese Self Defence Force KAI Korea Aerospace Industries LM Lockheed Martin Merlin FSG Merlin Flight Simulation Group MHI Mitsubishi Heavy Industries MPC Mitsubishi Precision Co. Ltd. MRTT Multi-Role Tanker Transport NLR Netherlands National Aerospace Laboratory NorGrumm Northrop Grumman PC / PC IG Personal Computer / PC-based Image Generator PLA People’s Liberation Army of China RC Rockwell Collins RDE Rheinmetall Defence Electronics SAR Search and Rescue SE Single Engined Thales includes ex Rediffusion, Singer-Link Miles and Thomson CSF TRU S+T TRU Simulation + Training Inc. TU Delft Delft University of Technology VRM Virtual Reality Media

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Afghanistan - Air Force Aeritalia G-222 ASE VRM/IMMAX / 5ch/5w 220x60 0 Mil Mi-17ANAAC VRM/ASE/FTC VRM/IMMAX / 5ch/4wPD 180x45 2V Algeria - Air Force LM C-130H Hercules CAE Medallion / 3chCC 150x40 6h Angola - Air Force Aero Vod L-39-C/ZA Albatros VRM pC-NOVA / 3ch/3w 150x45 0 Mil Mi-17 Hip VRM PC IG/Vega / 3ch/3w 180x45 0V Moravan Zlin 143/242 VRM VRM/IMMAX / 1ch/1w 60x45 0 Argentina - Army Bell UH-1H Huey Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 220x60 6h Argentina - Air Force Boeing A-4M Skyhawk Camber SGI / 3ch/3wC 150x40 0 Bombardier Learjet 35 Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Dassault Mirage III/5/50/C/E/VP Thales Vital 4 / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 IAI Dagger A IAI Vital 4 / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Argentina - Navy Dassault Super Etendard Thales Apogee / 3ch/3w 150x40 4H Australia - Air Force Airbus EADS A-330 (KC-30A MRTT) CAE Medallion / 3chCC 150x40 6h BAES Hawk 127 BAES SGI / 1ch/1w 15x25 0 BAES Hawk 127 BAES PXC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 6E Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet L-3 Link USA SimuView HD / 10ch/9wF 360x130 0 Boeing F/A-18C Hornet L-3 Link USA SimuView / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Boeing F/A-18C Hornet L-3 Link USA SimuView / 6ChF 360x130 0 Boeing F/A-18C Hornet L-3 Link USA SimuView / 6ChF 360x130 0 Boeing F/A-18C Hornet L-3 Link USA SimuView / 8chF 360x130 0 Boeing B737 AWACS Wedgetail Thales ThalesView / 3chCC 150x40 6h Generic fighter ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 3E LM AP-3C Orion CAE MaxVue / 3chCC 150x40 6h LM AP-3C Orion Thales ESIG-5530 / 5ch/5w 210x40 6h LM C-130H Hercules CAE Medallion S / 5chCC 200x40 6h LM C-130J Hercules CAE Medallion S / 4ch/5w 200x40 6h Australia - Army Eurocopter Tiger ARH Thales ThalesView / 9chD 240x85 6h Eurocopter Tiger ARH Thales ThalesView / 5ch/5w 180x60 0 Eurocopter Tiger ARH Thales ThalesView / 5ch/5w 180x60 0 NH Industries MRH90 CAE/Thales Medallion S / 5chCC 220x50 6h NH Industries NH-90 CAE Medallion / 5chCC 220x60 6h Sikorsky UH-60A Black Hawk CAE MaxVue Enh B / 5chCC+2chin 220x60 6h Australia - Navy Sikorsky MH-60R Seahawk CAE Medallion 6000 / 5chCC 210x80 6E Austria - AeronautX Cessna Citation Jet 2 VRM VRM/IMMAX / 3ch/3w 150x35 0 Austria - AMST training facility Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 123x30 6h Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 6hY Austria - Air Force Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 16chD 360x130 0MGD Generic AMST PC IG / 1ch/1w 78x45 6h Austria - Jet Alliance Flight Training Cessna Citation Jet 1 VRM X-Plane / 3ch/CC 180x40 6E Cessna Citation Jet 2 VRM EP-1000CT / 3ch/3w 135x33 0 Bahrain - Air Force BAES Hawk Mk 129 Thales ThalesView / 1ch/1w 60x40 0 BAES Hawk Mk 129 Thales ThalesView / 11chD 330x90 0MG LM F-16C Block 40 L-3 Link USA SGI / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Sikorsky UH-60M/L Rockwell Collins PC IG / 6ch/5w 145x60 0M Bangladesh - Air Force Generic fighter ETC PC IG / 1ch/C 40x30 4EY Generic fighter L39 ETC PC IG / 1ch/C 40x30 4EY Belgium - Air Force Aermacchi SF-260D Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 170x40 0 AlphaJet AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 123x30 0 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet E Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h LM F-16 MLU Thales ESIG 30+ / 6chD 270x60 0 LM F-16A MLU LM PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Multi-role helicopter Thales ThalesView / 3chD 180x45 0V Belgium - Army AgWest A-109 CAE PT-2000 / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h AgWest A-109 B1 Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Belgium - CAE Training Centre LM C-130H Hercules CAE Vital 4 / 3chCC 150x40 6h Brazil - Air Force Alenia/Embraer AMX A-1 Compro SGI / 3ch/3w 170x40 0 EADS CASA C-295 CAE Medallion / 3chCC 150x40 6h Embraer Emb-312 Tucano ABC Dados Opdis / 3ch/3w 150x40 2H Embraer Emb-314 Super Tucano Elbit Systems PC IG / 3ch/3w 180x60 0 42

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NorGrumm F-5BR Tiger II Elbit Systems PC IG / 3ch/3w 180x60 NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II LM ESIG HD / 5chD 210x50 Brazil - Navy Bell Jet Ranger III Thales PXC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 Boeing TA-4J Quintron PC IG / 2ch/2w 70x40 Brazil - Embraer Embraer R&D Camber PC / 3ch/3w 150x40 Brunei - CAE Multi-Purpose Training Centre Pilatus PC-7 CAE MaxVue / 3ch/3w 150x40 Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk CAE Medallion / 5chCC 210x80 Sikorsky S-92 CAE Medallion / 5chCC 210x80 Canada - Canada Wings Aviation Training Beechcraft C90B King Air FSI Vital 9 / 3chCC 180x50 Bell 412 FSI Vital 9 / 5chCC 200x60 Bell 412 FSI Vital 9 / 5chCC 200x60 Grob G120A Atlantis/Bluedrop Vital X / 6ch/6w 220x60 Canada - Air Force AgWest AW101 Cormorant Atlantis/Bluedrop CATI / 3ch/3w 120x30 BAES Hawk 115 BAES SGI / 1ch/1w 46x29 Bell B412/212 CAE MaxVue / 5chCC+2chin 220x60 Boeing CF-18 Hornet L-3 Link USA SGI / 8chF 360x130 Boeing CF-18 Hornet L-3 Link USA SGI / 8chF 360x130 Boeing CF-18 Hornet L-3 Link USA PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Boeing CH-47 CAE MaxVue / 5chCC+2chin 220x60 Boeing F/A-18 Hornet CAE Vital 9 / 6chD 220x50 Boeing F-18 Hornet Wyle (operator) VRM/IMMAX / 3ch/3w 120x35 LM C-130H Hercules CAE Vital 4 / 3chCC 150x40 LM C-130H Hercules CAE MaxVue / 3chCC 150x40 LM CC-130J Hercules CAE Medallion 6000 / 3ch/3w 210 X 50 LM P-3 Orion (Aurora) CAE Medallion S / 4ch/5wC 210x45 LM P-3 Orion (Aurora) CAE Medallion S / 4ch/5wC 210x45 Canada - Forces Generic fighter ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Sikorsky CH148 Cyclone Rockwell Collins ESIG EPX-5000 / 10chD 200x90 Canada - NFTC BAES Hawk CAE MaxVue Enh B / 3ch/4w 200x45 Beechcraft T-6 Texan II CAE MaxVue Enh B / 3ch/4w 180x40 Beechcraft T-6 Texan II CAE MaxVue Enh B / 8chD 300x60 Chile- Air Force Dassault Mirage III/5/50 Sogitec PC IG / 3ch/3w 180x40 EADS CASA C-101 Aviojet A-36 Indra INVIS / 3ch/3w 150x40 Generic trainer SE piston ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 LM F-16C Flight-Dynamix EPX / 1ch/1w 60x25 China - BIAM Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 China - PLA Air Force Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 Generic fighter Beijing BlueSky CGI / 4chF 270x45 Generic fighter Beijing BlueSky CGI / 5chD 330x60 Harbin Y-5 Beijing BlueSky CGI / 3ch/3w 150x40 Shenyang F-6/J-6 (MiG 19) Beijing BlueSky CGI / 4ch/5w 300x135 Shenyang F-6/J-6 (MiG 19) Beijing BlueSky CGI / 3ch/3w 150x40 Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker Beijing BlueSky CGI / 3ch/3w 150x40 Colombia - Air Force Aeromedical Centre Generic trainer SE turboprop ETC PC IG / 3ch/C 120x30 Colombia - Air Force Enstrom F28F Falcon Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 180x45 Columbia - Vertical de Aviation Mil Mi-8/Mi-17 VRM/ASE VRM/IMMAX / 1ch/1w LCD 24�

Croatia - Air Force MiG 21-bis Fishbed Soko Z I Apogee-6 / 1ch/1w 60x45 Pilatus PC-9 Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 Czech Republic - Aero Vodochody Aero Vod L-159B E-COM E-COM / 6chD 220x150 Aero Vod L-39 E-COM E-COM / 4ch/5w 60x120 Czech Republic - Air Force Generic F&R L39, L159, MiG29, Rotary ETC PC IG / 3ch/3w 110x30 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 8chD 240x155 Czech Republic - Helicopter Training Centre Ostrava Mil Mi-171 CSTS Dinamika Raduga CD / 8ch/PD 210x60 Denmark - Air Force AgWest AW101 Merlin Atlantis/Bluedrop Genesis / 3ch/3w 120x30 Generic fighter ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 LM F-16 MLU L-3 Link USA SimuView / 7ch/7w 270x130 LM F-16 MLU L-3 Link USA SimuView / 3ch/3w 120x40 Ecuador - Air Force Dassault Mirage F1 Thales SP-3 / 3ch/3w 150x40 IAI Kfir C2 IAI Vital 4 / 3ch/3w 150x40

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Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Egypt - Air Force Academy Grob G115E Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 Egypt - Air Force Aero Vod L-59E Albatros Letov LV PC IG / 3ch/3w 180x40 Boeing AH-64D Longbow Boeing CGI / 4ch/5w 200x45 Dassault Mirage 2000E Thales Visa / 6chD 270x60 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet MS1 Thales SP-3 / 3ch/3w 150x40 Embraer Emb-312 Tucano ABC Dados Opdis / 3ch/3w 150x40 Generic fighter ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Generic single engine ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Hongdu K-8E Karakorum Beijing BlueSky CGI / 3chCC 200x45 LM C-130H Hercules CAE Medallion 6000 / 3ch/3w 210 X 50 LM F-16 Block 15, 32, 40L L-3 Link USA CGI / 3ch/3w 180x60 LM F-16C/D Block 52 LM PC IG / 25chD 360x150 Finland - Air Force BAES Hawk 51 Thales INSTA / 1ch/1w 150x40 BAES Hawk 51 Thales INSTA / 3ch/3w 150x40 Boeing F-18C Hornet L-3 Link USA CompuScene 6 / 6chD 300x75 Boeing F-18C Hornet Boeing PC IG Simcore / 8chPD 220x110 France - 5RHC, Pau Eurocopter Tiger HAP Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 200x60 France - Army Air Corps Training Centre (EALAT) NH Industries NH90 TTH T6 Sogitec Apogée 7 / 6ch/3w 210x67 NH Industries NH90 TTH T6 Sogitec Apogée 7 / 8chD 220x98 France - Air Force Airbus A-400M Thales ThalesView / 5chCC 225x50 Dassault Mirage 2000 Latecoere PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 Sogitec/Thales Apogée 4 / 1ch/1w 40x30 Dassault Mirage 2000C2/3 Thales ThalesView / 6chD 270x60 Dassault Mirage 2000D Sogitec Apogée / 1ch/1w 40x40 Dassault Mirage 2000D Sogitec Apogée / 5chD4.6m 270x135 Dassault Mirage 2000D Sogitec Apogée 6 / 5chD8m 270x135 Dassault Mirage 2000D Thales Apogée / 6chD 270x135 Dassault Mirage 2000N Thales Visa 4 / 4ch/5w 160x40 Dassault Mirage F1CT Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 150x40 Dassault Rafale F3 Sogitec/Thales Apogée 6 / 8chD 330x130 Dassault Rafale F3 Thales /Sogitec Sogitec / 9chD 360x120 Dassault Rafale F3 Thales /Sogitec Apogée / 3ch/3w 3*75’’ Dassault/Dornier Alpha jet Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 220x150 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet E Thales ThalesView / 5chD 220x140 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet E Thales Space Magic / 1ch/1w 40x30 Embraer Emb 121 Xingu Thales Space Magic / 2ch/2w 150x45 Embraer Emb-312 Tucano Thales Space Magic / 1ch/1w 40x30 Eurocopter AS 555 AN Fennec Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 180x45 Eurocopter AS 555 AN Fennec Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 180x45 Eurocopter AS 555 AN Fennec Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 180x45 Eurocopter AS532 & SA330 Sogitec Apogée 3 / 6chD 200x60 Transall C-160 NG Thales Space Classic / 3ch/3w 180x40 France - Air Force Academy Grob 200 Sogitec Apogée 6 / 3ch/3w 180x45 France - Army Eurocopter AS 555 AN Fennec Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 180x45 Eurocopter EC120 B Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 180x60 Eurocopter SA342 Gazelle Viviane Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 180x60 Eurocopter SA342 Gazelle Viviane Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 180x60 Grob 120 Frasca Sogitec / 3ch/3w 180x45 Multi-role helicopter Thales ThalesView / 3chD 180x45 Multi-role helicopter Thales ThalesView / 3chD 180x45 Multi-role helicopter Thales ThalesView / 3chD 180x45 Multi-role helicopter Thales ThalesView / 3chD 180x45 France - Navy AgWest WG-13 Lynx HAS2/4 Thales Space Magic / 4ch/5w 220x45 Dassault Atlantique ATL2 Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 150x40

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Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Dassault Rafale F1 Sogitec/Thales Apogee 6 / 1ch/1w 60x40 0 Dassault Rafale F1 Thales /Sogitec Apogée / 1ch/1w 100x80 0 Dassault Rafale F1 Thales /Sogitec Apogée / 1ch/1w 100x80 0 Dassault Rafale F2 Sogitec/Thales Apogée 6 / 8chD 330x130 0 Dassault Rafale F3 Thales /Sogitec Sogitec / 9chD 360x120 0G Dassault Super Etendard Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 150x40 4H Eurocopter AS365 Dauphin Sogitec Apogée 6 / 3ch/3w 150x45 0 NorGrumm E-2C Hawkeye CAE USA/Sogitec Apogée 4 / 3ch/4w 190x50 6h France - Sécurité Civile Eurocopter EC 145 Thales Space Magic / 3ch/3w 180x60 0 France - Helisim Eurocopter AS332/532 S Thales ThalesView / 5chCC 200x60 6h Eurocopter AS365/AS565 Thales ThalesView / 5chCC 200x60 6h Eurocopter EC155 Super Dauphin Thales ThalesView / 5chCC 200x60 6h Eurocopter EC225/AS725 S Thales ThalesView / 5chCC 200x60 6h Eurocopter NH-90 Thales ThalesView / 8chD 230x85 6h France - Singapore Air Force Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Alenia/CAE/Boeing Medallion 6400 / 14ChD 360x130 0MG Alenia Aermacchi M-346 Alenia/CAE/Boeing Medallion 6400 / 14ChD 360x130 0MG France/Germany - Armies - Combined Training Eurocopter Tiger HAP/UHT Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Eurocopter Tiger HAP/UHT Thales ThalesView / 9chD 240x85 6h Germany - German Aerospace Center (DLR) Eurocopter EC-135 RDE PC IG / 14chD 240x85 6E Germany - Air Force Airbus Military A-400M Thales ThalesView / 5ch 225x60 6E Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 5chF 220x120 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 13chD 360x130 0MGD Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 5chF 220x120 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 13chD 360x130 0MGD Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 8chPD 240x120 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 13chD 360x130 0MGD Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 8chPD 240x120 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 16chD 360x130 0MGD Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 3G Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 6h Generic multi AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x40 6h MiG 29A Fulcrum CAE/ERA Medallion / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 NH Industries NH-90 HFTS ThalesView / 8chD 230x85 6hV Panavia Tornado IDS CAE Medallion S / 7chD 300x120 6h Transall C-160 CAE Medallion 6000 / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Transall C-160 Thales ESIG-3000/200 / 4ch/5w 200x45 6h Germany - Air Force/Navy Panavia Tornado IDS CAE CompuScene 3 / 7ch7wColl 210x45 6h Germany - Army Bell UH-1D Huey CAE Harmony / 4ch/5w 240x90 6h Eurocopter EC-135 CAE Harmony / 5chCC 240x90 6h Eurocopter Tiger UHT Thales ThalesView / 9chD 240x85 6h Eurocopter Tiger UHT Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Eurocopter Tiger UHT Thales ThalesView / 9chD 240x85 6h Eurocopter Tiger UHT Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 NH Industries NH-90 HFTS ThalesView / 8chD 230x85 6hV Sikorsky CH-53 Stallion CAE Harmony / 3chCC 150x40 6h Germany - Army/Air Force NH Industries NH-90 HFTS ThalesView / 8chD 230x85 6hV Germany - HFTS NH Industries NH-90 Thales ThalesView / 8chD 230x85 6h NH Industries NH-90 Thales ThalesView / 8chD 230x85 6h NH Industries NH-90 Thales ThalesView / 8chD 230x85 6h NH Industries NH-90 CAE Medallion S / 5chCC 210x45 6h Germany - Navy AgWest Lynx CAE MaxVue Plus / 5chCC 180x60 6h AgWest Sea Lynx 41/88 CAE MaxVue Plus / 5ch/4w 200x40 6h

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Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

LM P-3C Orion CAE SP-3T / 3chCC 150x40 Germany - Heli Aviation GmbH Generic Heli Aviation PC IG / 3ch3w 150x45 Germany - NATO AWACS Boeing E-3A Sentry CAE Medallion 200 / 3chCC 150x40 Germany - Simtec Systems GmbH DO228 FNPT II AMST PC IG / 2ch/2w 80x30 Dornier Do228-200 Simtec RasterFlite NX2 / 1ch/2w 60x40 Germany - US Air Force NorGrumm A-10C LM PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 Greece - Air Force Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 Sogitec ApogĂŠe / 5chD4.6m 270x135 Dassault Mirage 2000EG Thales Visa / 5chD 22060 Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 LM F-16 C Block 52+ L-3 Link USA SimuView / 4ChF 180x70 Hungary - Air Force Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 8chD 240x155 India - HATSOFF Training Centre HAL DHRUV CAE Tropos 6000 / 8chCC+2W 220x60 India - Air Force Antonov AN-32 CAE India PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 BAES Hawk 132 BAES PXC IG / 3ch/3w 180x50 BAES Hawk 132 BAES PXC IG / 1ch/1w 56x44 BAES Hawk 132 BAES PXC IG / 1ch/1w 46x29 BAeS/Dassault Jaguar Darin 1 CAE India Medallion / 3ch/3w 150x40 Dassault Mirage 2000 Elbit Systems PC IG / 14chPD 300x100 Dassault Mirage 2000H Thales Visa / 6chD 270x60 Dornier/HAL Dornier 228 CAE India PC IG / 5ch/5w 200x40 Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Generic AMST PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 LM C-130J Hercules CAE Medallion / 5chCC 150x40 MiG-27 Flogger CAE India PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 SEPECAT Jaguar Thales/Macmet Visa 4 / 3ch/3w 180x40 India - Army HAL Alouette - Chetak/Llama CAE India PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 India - Navy AgWest Sea King 42 Thales PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 BAES Sea Harrier Camber SGI / 3ch/3w 150x40 BAES Sea Harrier FRS51 CAE India PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 BAES Sea Harrier FRS51 Thales Harmony / 6chD 270x60 MiG-29K Fulcrum RDE PC IG / 7chD 300x75 Indonesia - Air Force BAES Hawk 209 Thales ESIG 3000 / 6chD 270x60 BAES Hawk 53 ETC Opdis / 1ch/1w 40x30 Boeing A-4E Skyhawk ETC Opdis / 1ch/1w 40x30 LM C-130H Hercules CAE MaxVue Enh / 5chCC 210x45 LM F-16A Block 15 Thales ESIG-3000 / 3chD 270x90 NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II ETC Opdis / 1ch/1w 40x30 Indonesia - Army Bell NB412 Frasca GT100 / 3ch/3w 150x40 Eurocopter NBO-105 Frasca GT100 / 3ch/3w 150x40 Indonesia - Navy Socata TB-10 Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 180x45 Iran - Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook Beijing BlueSky CGI / 4ch/5w 200x45 Iraq - Air Force Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Vital 9 / 1ch 45 x 33 LM F-16 Block 52 L-3 Link USA SimuView / 9ChF 360x130 Mil Mi-171E VRM/ASE/FTC VRM/IMMAX / 5ch/4w 180x45 (70) Iraq - Air Force (US Training Program) Bell 206 Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 180x45 Bell Huey Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 180x45 Cessna 172 Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 180x45 Cessna Caravan Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 180x45 Israel - Air Force Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 Boeing F-15I/AUP Eagle LM ESIG / 4ch/5w 210x100 Generic fighter IAI PC IG / 5chPD 230x85 Generic Elbit Systems PC IG / 1ch/1w 120x60 LM F16 C/D Elbit Systems PC IG / 6chPD 220x100 LM F-16A Elbit Systems PC IG / 3chPD 180x60 LM F-16D Elbit Systems PC IG / 6chD 220x100 LM F-16I Elbit Systems PC IG / 6chD 220x100 Sikorsky CH-53 & UH-90 CAE MaxVue / 5chCC+2chin 220x60 Sikorsky CH-53 & UH-90 CAE MaxVue / 5chCC+2chin 220x60 Italy - Alenia Aermacchi Simulation Centre Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 2ch/2w 80x30 44

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6h 6E 6h 0 6h 0 0M 0 0 6hY 0 0 6h 0 0M 0 0 6hMG 0 0 0V 3G 6h 6h 6h 0 6h 0V 3h 0 6h 6h 6h 0 0 0 6h 0 0 6h 6h 0 0 0M 0 0V 0 0 0 0 0M 0 0VMG 0 0 0MG 0 0MG 6h 6h 0

Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 3chCC 180x40 0 Alenia Aermacchi MB-339A Elbit Systems PC IG / 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Alenia Aermacchi Sky-X/Y UAV Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Alenia Aermacchi Sky-X/Y UAV Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Eurofighter Typhoon Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 5chD 220x140 0 Eurofighter Typhoon Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 7chD 360x135 0MG Italy - Air Force Aermacchi M-346 CAE Medallion / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Aermacchi MB-339C/D Elbit Systems SGI / 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Agusta Bell AB-205 CAE Vital 4 / 5chCC 210x45 6h Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan TRU S+T Alenia Sapphire / 3chCC 180x45 6E Alenia Aermacchi T-346A Alenia Aermacchi Medallion 6400 / 25ChD 360x130 0MG Alenia Aermacchi T-346A Alenia Aermacchi Medallion 6200 / 3ch/3w 180x60 0 Eurofighter Typhoon Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 5chD 220x140 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 5chPD 220x120 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 13chD 360x130 0MGD Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 16chD 360x130 0MGD Eurofighter Typhoon Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 1ch/1w 40x25 0 Eurofighter Typhoon Alenia Aermacchi Alenia Sapphire / 5chD 220x140 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 5chPD 220x120 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 13chD 360x130 0MGD Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 6hY LM F-16A ADF Compro SGI / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM KC-130J Hercules CAE Vital 9 / 5chCC 200x40 6h Panavia Tornado IDS CAE/Galileo Medallion / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Italy - Army Agusta Bell AB-205A CAE MaxVue Enh / 3ch/4w 150x40 6h AgWest A129 Mangusta Thales Medallion S / 6chD 270x60 6h Italy - Navy AgWest EH101 CAE/AgWest Medallion 6000 / 8chD 220x60 0 AgWest EH-101 CAE Medallion / 5chCC 210x45 6h Boeing/BAES Harrier II+ Indra pC-NOVA / 8chF 360x135 0G Italy - Rotorsim AgustaWest AW139 CAE/AgWest Medallion 6220 / 8chD 210x80 6EV Medallion 6000 / 7ch5CC+2chin 200x60 6h AgWest AW139 CAE/AgWest AgWest AW-139 & A109 CAE/AgWest Medallion S / 7ch5CC+2chin 200x60 6h Medallion 6000 / 7ch5CC+2chin 210x80 6h AgWest AW-189 CAE/AgWest Tropos 6000 / 7ch5CC+2chin 210x80 6h NH Industries NH-90 HTMI Japan - JSDF Air Beechcraft Beech 400A Jayhawk LM SGI / 5chCC 180x40 6h Boeing F-15J ETC PXC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 3EG Boeing F-15J ETC PXC IG / 3ch/3w 120x70 4EY Boeing/Mitsubishi F-15J Eagle LM ESIG-3000 / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 DiaScene IG-5530GT / 8chD 260x80 0MG Boeing/MHI F-15J Eagle MPC Generic fighter ETC PXC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 4EY Hawker U-125A Hawker 800 CAE/FHI SE2000+ / 5chCC 210x45 6h Kawasaki C-1A Thales ESIG-3250 / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h DiaScene IG-5530GT / 3chCC 180x60 6h Kawasaki T-4 MPC Kawasaki T-4 MPC DiaScene IG-950 / 8chD 260x80 6h LM C-130H Hercules MPC DiaScene IG-4530 / 5chCC 220x46 6h Mitsubishi F-2A MHI PC IG / 5chD 240x120 0M DiaScene IG-5530GT / 6chD 210x110 0M Mitsubishi F-2A MHI DiaScene IG-750 / 5chCC+2chin 220x60 6h Sikorsky/MHI UH-60J Black Hawk MPC Japan - JSDF Ground Bell/Fuji AH-1S Cobra MPC ESIG-4000 / 3chCC 150x40 6hV Bell/Fuji AH-1S Cobra MPC DiaScene IG-1000 / 3chCC 150x40 6hV Bell/Fuji UH-1J Iroquois MPC DiaScene IG-3000 / 3ch/3w 165x40 6E Boeing AH-64DJP Longbow Boeing PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Boeing/Fuji AH-64D Apache FATEC DiaScene IG-7500 / 4ch/5w 180x60 0 Sikorsky/MHI UH-60JA Black Hawk MPC DiaScene IG-95 / 3chPD 165x40 6E Japan - JSDF Maritime Beechcraft TC90 MPC DiaScene IG-95 / 3chCC 150x40 6h LM P-3C Orion CAE/MHI MaxVue / 5chCC 210x45 6h LM/Kawasaki P-3C Orion MPC DiaScene IG-3000 / 3chCC 150x40 6h LM/Kawasaki P-3C Orion MPC DiaScene IG-1000 / 3chCC 150x40 6h Shinmaywa US-1A MPC DiaScene IG-3000 / 3ch/3w 180x40 0 Sikorsky MH-53E Sea Dragon MPC PT-2000SJ / 5chCC+2chin 120x40 6hV DiaScene IG-950 / 5chCC+2chin 220x60 0 Sikorsky/MHI SH-60K Sea Hawk MHI Sikorsky/MHI SH-60K Sea Hawk MHI DiaScene IG-3000 / 5chCC 0

+ 2chin 220x60 Japan - US Marine Corps Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey Veraxx Eng. Corp. pC-NOVA / 6ch/5w 220x60 0V LM KC-130J Hercules CAE Vital 9 / 5chCC 200x50 6h LM KC-130T Hercules JFTI ESIG-4530 / 3ch/3w 180x40 0 Japan - US Navy NorGrumm E-2C Hawkeye ASI EPX / 1ch/2w 90x40 0 Jordan- Air Force Dassault Mirage F1C Thales Visa / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 EADS CASA C-101CC Aviojet Indra Vital 5 / 1ch/1wC 30x40 0

Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

LM F-16 MLU Thales ESIG 3000 / 6chD 270x60 LM F-16A Block 15 L-3 Link USA SGI / 3ch/3w 150x40 LM F-16A MLU LM PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 MiG-31 Foxhound CSTS Dinamika Raduga CD / 4ch/5w 200x60 Sukhoi Su-25 Frogfoot VRM X-Plane / 3ch/3w 135x45 Kuwait - Air Force Boeing F/A-18C Hornet L-3 Link USA SimuView / 9ChF 360x130 Boeing F-18C Hornet L-3 Link USA CompuScene 4 / 6chD 300x75 BAES Hawk 64 Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 150x40 Boeing F-18C Hornet Boeing PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Generic ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Kuwait - Army Boeing AH-64D Longbow Boeing PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 Macdeonia - Air Force Mil Mi-17/171/8 Elbit Systems PC IG / 6chPD 210x60 Mil Mi-24 Hind Elbit Systems PC IG / 6chPD 210x60 Malaysia - AIROD Sdn. Bhd. AgWest AW139 CAE/AgWest Medallion 6220 / 8chD 210x80 Malaysia - Air Force Aermacchi MB-339CM Ikramatic EP-X 500 / 10chD 300x140 Aermacchi MB-339CM Ikramatic EP-X 500 / 3ch/3w 180x45 BAES Hawk 208 Thales/Sapura CompuScene 6 / 3chD 330x120 Boeing F-18D Hornet L-3 Link USA CompuScene 6 / 6chD 300x75 Boeing F-18D Hornet L-3 Link USA SimuView HD / 9ChF 360x130 Eurocopter EC-355N Ikramatic EP-X 500 / 8chPD 240x70 Generic Light piston ETC PXC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 LM C-130H Hercules CAE Vital 10 / 3ChCC 180x40 MiG 29N Fulcrum CAE/Sapura MaxVue Enh A / 3ch/3w 40x120 MiG 29N Fulcrum CAE/Sapura MaxVue Enh B / 3ch/3w 55x120 Multiple MiG29, F-18, Hawk, Su-30 ETC PXC IG / 5chPD 120x70 Pilatus PC-7 Ikramatic PC-IG / 5ch/5w 250x40 Sukhoi Su-30 ETC PXC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Mexico - Air Force Mil Mi-17-1V Hip CSTS Dinamika Raduga CD / 5chPD 220x60 Mexico - Navy Generic helicopter Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 Generic twin engine Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 Morocco - Air Force Agusta Bell AB-205A CAE Vital 3S / 3ch/3w 150x40 Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 Dassault/Dornier Alpha Jet 1H Thales ESIG / 2ch/2w 90x40 LM C-130H Hercules CAE Vital 3S / 2ch/2w 70x45 LM F-16C Block 52 L-3 Link USA SimuView / 9ChF 360x130 Myanmar - Air Force MiG 29 Fulcrum CSTS Dinamika Raduga CD / 6chPD 120x60 Netherlands - Air Force AgWest Lynx CAE MaxVue Plus / 5chCC 210x45 Boeing KDC-10 CAE Medallion 6000 / 3ch/3w 210x50 Boeing KDC-10 CAE Medallion 6000 / 3ch/3w 210x50 Eurocopter BO-105CB Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 Generic AMST PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 LM C-130 Hercules CAE Medallion 6400 / 5chCC 210x45 LM F-16 MLU Thales ESIG 3000 / 1ch/1w 40x30 LM F-16A MLU LM PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 PC7 AMST PC IG / 5ch/5w 160x30 Netherlands - Navy AgWest Sea Lynx 27/88/90 CAE MaxVue Plus / 5chCC 210x45 Netherlands - National Aerospace Laboratory (NLR) Generic reconfigurable NLR NLR PC IG / 4ch PD 180x70

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Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Generic unmanned NLR NLR PC IG / 3ch3w 130x40 0 LM F-16MLU NLR NLR PC IG / 1ch/1w 45x30 0 LM F-16MLU NLR NLR PC IG / 3ch/3w 135x30 0 Various reconfigurable NLR NLR PC IG / 1ch/1w 45x30 0 Various reconfigurable NLR NLR PC IG / 3chCC 210x50 6E Netherlands - International Institute for Simulation, Motion and Navigation (SIMONA) Generic TU Delft Harmony / 3chCC 180x40 6h Netherlands - TNO Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 3GY New Zealand - Air Force AgWest AW 109LUH AgWest ESIG / 7chD 220x60 6EV Bell UH-1H Huey Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 LM P-3K Orion F2Si LCD Mosaic Wall / 3ch/4w 40x150 6E Nigeria - Air Force Aero Vod L-39ZA Albatros Letov LV PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM C-130H Hercules CAE Vital 4 / 3chCC 150x40 6h LM F-16 MLU Thales ESIG 3000 / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 SEPECAT Jaguar Thales Image 2 / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Norway - Air Force Eurocopter AS332L Super Puma Thales ESIG / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Generic flighter ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 3E LM F-16 Thales ESIG 3000 / 3chD 270x60 0 LM F-16A MLU LM PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Oman - Air Force AgWest Super Lynx 300 CAE Medallion S / 5chCC+2chin 200x60 0 EADS CASA C-295 CAE Medallion / 3chCC 150x40 6h Generic ETC PXC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM F-16C Flight-Dynamix EPX / 1ch/1w 60x25 0 LM F-16C Block 50+ L-3 Link USA SimuView / 6ChF 300x130 0 Pilatus PC-9 Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Pakistan - Air Force Generic ETC PC IG / 3ch/3w 110x30 4EY LM F-16A Block 15 Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 LM F-16C Block 52 L-3 Link USA SimuView HD / 9CHF 360x130 0 Peru - Air Force Dassault Mirage 2000P Sogitec ApogĂŠe / 6chD8m 200x60 0 Poland - Air Force LM F-16C Flight-Dynamix EPX / 1ch/1w 60x25 0 LM F-16C/D Block 52 L-3 Link USA SimuView / 8chF 360x130 0 LM F-16C/D Block 52 L-3 Link USA SimuView / 3ChF 160x70 0 Piper Seneca & Cessna 172 ETC-PZL PC COTS / 3ch/3w 180x60 0 PZL-130TC1 Orlik ETC-PZL PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 PZL-130TC1 Orlik ETC-PZL PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 PZL-Mielec I-22 Iryda ETC-PZL SGI / 3ch/3w 150x40 6E PZL-Mielec M-28 Bryza 1R Letov LV PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 6h PZL-Mielec TS-11 Iskra ETC-PZL PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 6E PZL-Swidnik W-3 Sokol ETC-PZL SGI / 3ch/3w 200x60 6E Schweizer SW 4 Schweizer 300 ETC-PZL PC COTS / 3ch/3w 200x60 4EY Sukhoi Su-22M4 Fitter ETC-PZL PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Sukhoi Su-22M4 Fitter ETC-PZL SGI / 3ch/3w 190x50 6E Poland - Military Institute of Aviation Medicine Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 3G Portugal - Air Force LM F-16 MLU M2 Thales ESIG 4530 / 3ch/3w 180x40 0 LM F-16A Indra Vital VII / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 LM F-16A MLU LM ESIG HD / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Vought A-7P Corsair II Indra Vital 7 / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Qatar - Air Force AgWest Sea King Commando Thales 6h Dassault Alpha Jet Thales Sogitec / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h

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Dassault Mirage 2000-5 Sogitec Romania - Air Force Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan TRU S+T Alenia Aermacchi C-27J Spartan Alenia Aermacchi Craiova IAR-99 Soim Elbit Systems IAR SA330 Puma Elbit Systems MiG-21 Lancer Elbit Systems MiG-21 Lancer Elbit Systems Pilatus PC-9 ETC Russia - Kamov Kamov Ka-52 CSTS Dinamika Russia - MiG Engineering Center MiG 29 Fulcrum CSTS Dinamika Russia - Mil Helicopter Mil Mi-28NE Havoc CSTS Dinamika Russia - Air Force Aero Vod L-39 CSTS Dinamika Aero Vod L-39 CSTS Dinamika Kamov Ka-52 CSTS Dinamika Kamov Ka-52 CSTS Dinamika MiG-31 Foxhound CSTS Dinamika MiG-31 Foxhound CSTS Dinamika MiG-31 Foxhound CSTS Dinamika Mil Mi-24P Hind CSTS Dinamika Mil Mi-24P Hind CSTS Dinamika Mil Mi-24PN Hind CSTS Dinamika Mil Mi-28N Havoc CSTS Dinamika Mil Mi-28NE Havoc CSTS Dinamika Mil Mi8 Transas Mil Mi-8AMTSh CSTS Dinamika Mil Mi-8MTB-5 CSTS Dinamika Sukhoi Su-24M CSTS Dinamika Sukhoi Su-24M CSTS Dinamika Sukhoi Su-30MK Kronshtadt/Sukhoi Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker D CSTS Dinamika Sukhoi Su-33 Flanker D CSTS Dinamika Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback CSTS Dinamika Sukhoi Su-34 Fullback CSTS Dinamika Russia - Army Mil Mi-17 Hip Kronshtadt Mil Mi-17V5 Hip Kronshtadt Mil Mi-26T Halo Kronshtadt Mil Mi-35M Hind Kronshtadt Russia - Sukhoi Training Facility Sukhoi Su-27 Flanker C CSTS Dinamika Russia - TsAGI Generic fighter various TsAGI Generic fighter various TsAGI Generic fighter various TsAGI Generic AMST Generic multi various TsAGI Saudi Arabia - Air Force BAES Hawk 65 BAES BAES Hawk 65 Thales Bell 412SAR Frasca Bell B412/212 CAE Boeing E-3D Sentry Thales Boeing F-15C Eagle Boeing Boeing F-15C Eagle LM Boeing F-15S Eagle LM Boeing KE-3D Sentry tanker Thales Eurofighter Typhoon BAES Generic fighter ETC Generic fighter ETC LM C-130H Hercules CAE LM C-130H Hercules CAE Panavia Tornado GR4 Thales Panavia Tornado TSP Thales Pilatus PC-9 BAES Pilatus PC-9 BAES Saudi Arabia - Navy Eurocopter AS-332 Super Puma Thales Eurocopter AS-565N Dauphin 2 Thales Singapore - Air Force Aermacchi M-346 CAE Beechcraft C90GTi Frasca Boeing A-4 S1 Skyhawk CAE/STTS Boeing A-4SU Skyhawk CAE/STTS Boeing CH-47D Chinook CAE 46

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GI 10000 / 1ch/1w 40x40

0

Alenia Sapphire / 3chCC 180x40 Alenia Sapphire / 3chD 180x45 PC IG / 3chPD 180x60 PC IG / 3chPD 180x60 PC IG / 3chPD 120x40 SGI / 3chPD 120x40 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30

0 0 0V 0V 0 0 3E

Raduga CD / 6chPD 180x83

0

Raduga CD / 3ch/3wC 129x28

0

Raduga CD / 3ch/3w 120x30

0

Raduga CD / 3ch/3w 190x50 Raduga CD / 3ch/3wC 129x30 Raduga CD / 6chPD 180x83 Raduga CD / 8chPD 220x83 Raduga CD / 5ch/5wC 200x28 Raduga CD / 3ch/3wC 120x28 Raduga CD / 3ch/3w 120x30 Raduga CD / 3ch/PD 120x40 Raduga CD / 5ch/PD 176x60 Raduga CD / 1ch/1w 40x30 Raduga CD / 8chPD 220x80 Raduga CD / 6chPD 160x70 Transas Aurora / 8chPD 240x140 Raduga CD / 8chPD 240x70 Raduga CD / 8chPD 240x71 Raduga CD / 4ch/4wC 172x28 Raduga CD / 2ch/2w 80x45 Transas Aurora / 5chD 270x110 Raduga CD / 3ch/3wC 120x28 Raduga CD / 1ch/1w 40x30 Raduga CD / 4ch/4wC 172x28 Raduga CD / 8chPD 180x80

0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6E 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0

Transas Aurora / 8chD 180x75 Transas Aurora / 8chD 180x75 Transas Aurora / 8chD 180x75 Transas Aurora / 8chD 180x75

0 6E 0 6E

Transas Aurora / 3ch/3w 110x30

0

TsAGI / 8chPD 240x140 TsAGI / 1ch/1w 60x45 CompuScene 6 / 3ch/3w 180x45 PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 TsAGI / 3ch/4wC 160x40

0 4H 0 3G 6h

PXC IG / 1ch/1w 50x25 ESIG / 3ch/3w 150x40 TruVision / 3ch/3w 140x30 Vital 9 / 3chCC 150x40 SP-X / 3ch/3w 150x40 AAlchemy / 6chD 330x60 ESIG HG / 3ch/3w 150x40 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 SP-3T / 3ch/3w 150x40 EPX 500 / 5chPD 220x140 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 PC IG / 3ch/3w 110x30 ESIG 4530 / 3chCC 150x40 Medallion / 3chCC 150x40 RC Harmony / 3ch/3w 150x40 RC EP-X 5000 / 11ch 290x130 EPX 500 / 3ch/3w 150x40 PXC IG / 1ch/1w 50x25

0 6h 0 6h 6h 0 6h 0 6h 0 1EG 4EY 6h 6h 6h 3G 6h 0

Space / 6chD 270x60 Space / 6chD 270x60

6h 6h

Medallion / 3ch3w 150x40 TruVision / 3ch/3w 220x58 Vital 6 / 3ch/3w 150x40 CompuScene 6 / 2chD24ft 270x90D Medallion / 5chCC 200x45

0 0 0 0 6h

Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Eurocopter & Sikorsky AS332/532 & UH60 CAE Medallion 6000 / 5chCC+3chin 240x50 6h Eurocopter AS332B/M S Puma Thales Compuscene 6 / 6chD 270x60 6h Eurocopter AS550 A2/C2 Fennec ST Electronics Soko CGI / 3ch/3w 180x45 0 Eurocopter EC-120 Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 220x60 0 Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 3G Generic fighter ETC PXC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 3EG Generic AMST PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 6hY LM F-16C ST Electronics PC IG / 3ch/4w 200x45 0 NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II ST Electronics Onyx2 / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk CAE Medallion 6000 / 3ch/3w 240x90 6h Slovakia - Air Force Aero Vod L-39-C/ZA VRM VRM/IMMAX / 3ch/3w 150x45 0 MiG 29 Fulcrum VRM VRM/IMMAX / 6ch/6w 180x90 0 Mil Mi-17 Hip VRM X-Plane / 4ch/4w 180x45 0 Slovakia - Opera Jet Training Centre Cessna Citation Jet 2 VRM VRM/IMMAX / 3ch/3w 135x33 0 South Africa - Air Force AgWest AW 109LUH AgWest Genesis / 3ch/3w 120x50 0 BAES Hawk 120 BAES SGI / 5chPD 180x130 0MG Eurocopter AS532 Cougar Thales/RUAG ESIG-4530 / 6chD 270x60 6h Pilatus PC-7 Astra Thales PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Pilatus PC-7 Astra Thales S. Africa PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 9chD 240x155 0 South Korea - Air Force BAES Hawk 67 Thales ThalesView / 4ch/5w 200x40 0 Boeing F-15K Eagle Boeing Independence / 6chD 330x60 0 Boeing F-15K Eagle Boeing Independence / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Boeing/LM F-15K, KF-16 ETC PC IG / 3ch/3w 110x30 3EG EADS CASA CN-235-100M Havelsan Harmony-II / 5chCC 220x45 6h Generic fighter DoDaam PC IG / 3ch/3w 45x180 3h Generic fighter ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 1EG Generic fighter ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 3EG Generic DoDaam PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Generic ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 3EG Generic helicopter reconfigurable DoDaam PC IG / 6chPD 75x150 0 Iliushin T-103 DoDaam PC IG / 1ch/1w 35x40 0 KAI KT-1 Ungbi KAI Onyx 2 / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 KAI KT-1 Ungbi KAI Onyx 2 / 6chD7.3m 200x60 0 KAI T-50 Golden Eagle KAI/Dodaam Harmony 2 / 8chD7.3m 315x180 3h KAI T-50 Golden Eagle KAI/Dodaam Harmony 2 / 3ch/3w 180x60 0 LM C-130H DoDaam Eigen / 5chCCol 210x40 0 LM F-16C Block 25 L-3 Link USA ESIG-3000 / 5chD 330x60 0 LM F-16C Block 25,52 L-3 Link USA SGI / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 LM F-16C Block 52 L-3 Link USA CompuScene 6 / 5chD 330x60 0 LM F-16K ETC-PZL PC IG / 3ch/3w 110x30 3EG LM KF-16 DoDaam Eigen / 11chD 300x130 0MG LM KF-16 DoDaam Eigen / 6chPD 210x110 0MG NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II DoDaam PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk DoDaam PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 3h Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk DoDaam PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Sukhoi Su-30 ETC PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 4EY South Korea - Army Bell AH-1F/S Cobra CAE ESIG-4350 / 4ch/5w 210x60 6h Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk Thales/DoDaam ThalesView / 4ch/5w 200x45 6h South Korea - Navy AgWest Lynx DoDaam PC IG / 5chCC 210x60 6EV Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk CAE ESIG-4350 / 4ch/5w 210x60 6h Sikorsky UH-60P Black Hawk DoDaam PC IG / 5chCC 210x60 6E South Korea - US Air Force NorGrumm A-10C LM PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 0 Spain - Airbus Military Airbus A-400M Thales ThalesView / 5chCC 225x50 6h Airbus A-400M Thales ThalesView / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Spain - Air Force Boeing EF-18A Hornet Indra Indra / 3chC 150x40 0G Canadair CL-415 Indra Invis2 / 3ch/3w 180x40 0 Dassault Mirage F1M Thales PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Dassault Mirage F1-M Indra Indra / 1ch/1wC 30x40 0 EADS CASA C-101B Aviojet Indra INVIS / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 EADS CASA C-295 CAE Medallion / 3chCC 150x40 6h Eurocopter EC120 Indra INVIS / 3ch/4w 180x45 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 8chPD 240x120 0 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 5chF 360x130 0MGD Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 13chD 360x130 0MGD Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 16chD 360x130 0MGD Generic trainer T-6 ETC PC IG / 1ch/C 40x30 4EY LM C-130 Hercules T-10 Indra INVIS / 3ch/4w 200x45 0 NorGrumm F-5M Tiger II Indra INVIS / 3ch/3wC 150x40 0 Sikorsky S-76 Indra INVIS / 6chPD 200x45 0

Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Spain - Army Boeing CH-47 Chinook HT-17 Indra INVIS / 3ch/4w 200x45 0 Boeing CH-47 Chinook HT-17 Indra INVIS / 8chD 210x80 6EV Eurocopter AS532 Cougar HU21L Indra INVIS / 3ch/4w 200x45 0 Eurocopter AS532 Cougar HU21L Indra INVIS / 8chD 210x80 6EV Eurocopter Tiger HAD Indra INVIS / 12chD 240x120 6EV Eurocopter Tiger HAD Indra INVIS / 6chD 165x120 0 Spain - Navy Boeing/BAES EAV-8B Harrier II Indra CT5A / 9chD 150x40 0G Boeing/BAES Harrier II+ Indra pC-NOVA / 8chF 360x135 0G Sikorsky SH-60B Seahawk Indra INVIS / 5chCC 210x120 6hV Sudan - Air Force Hongdu K-8S Karakorum Beijing BlueSky CGI / 3chCC 200x45 0 Sweden - Air Force AgWest AW 109LUH AgWest Independence 3000 / 3ch/3w 180x50 0 Saab 105/SK60 Sjölan&Thyselius PC IG / 5chD 270x130 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen Saab PC IG / Vega / 3ch3w 180x40 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen Saab PC IG / Vega / 6chD 200D 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen Saab Equipe PXC IG / 3ch/4w 180x45 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 3chD 135x35 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 6chD 200X90 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 8chD 240x155 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 9chD 240x155 0 Saab JAS 39A Gripen LM ESIG-3000 / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Saab JAS 39A Gripen LM PC IG / 5chD 250x50 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen Wyle Labs PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x35 4EG Sweden - Defence Material Administration (FMV)

Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 8chD 240x155 0 Sweden - Saab Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 11chD 270x155 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 6chD 270x155 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Saab Grape/PC / 3ch3w 170x40 0 Saab JAS 39 Gripen E Saab Saab Grape/PC / 6chPD 170x50 0 Sweden - Swedish/Thai training Saab JAS 39 Gripen E Saab Saab Grape/PC / 3chPD 170x50 0 Switzerland - Pilatus Training Centre PC21 AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x40 0 PC21 AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x40 0 PC21 AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x40 0 PC21 AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x40 0 Switzerland - Air Force Boeing F/A-18C L-3 Link USA SimuView / 1ch/1w 40/30 0 Boeing F/A-18C L-3 Link USA SimuView / 8chF 360x130 0 Eurocopter EC-635 Thales ThalesView / 14chD 240x90 6h Pilatus PC-7 RUAG EPX-5000 / 1ch/1w 48x36 0 RUAG TH06 Super Puma Thales ThalesView / 10chD 220x70 6h Switzerland - Rega SAR Training Centre AgWest AW109SP AgWest ESIG / 7chD 220x60 6EV Taiwan - Air Force AIDC Taiwan F-CK-1 Ching-kuo AIDC ESIG-3000 / 7chD 330x70 0 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 Sogitec Apogee / 8chD8m 320x130 0M Dassault Mirage 2000-5 Sogitec Apogée 6 / 5chD4,6m 280x120 0 Dassault Mirage 2000-5 Sogitec PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x40 0 Dassault/LM Mirage 2000 & F-16 Latecoere PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 3G Generic fighter AMST PC IG / 1ch/1w 60x40 3G Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 6hY LM C-130H Hercules CAE Medallion / 3chCC 200x40 6h LM C-130H Hercules CAE Medallion / 3chCC 200x40 6h LM F-16 Camber PC / 7chD 270x70 0 LM F-16A Block 20 L-3 Link USA ESIG-3000 / 5chD 330x60 0 LM F-16A Block 20 L-3 Link USA ESIG-3000 / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 Taiwan - Navy LM P-3C Orion CAE Medallion 6000 / 5chCC 210x80 6h

Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Sikorsky SH-60C Seahawk CAE Thailand - Air Force Generic fighter AMST Generic fighter ETC Generic ETC LM F-16A Thales NorGrumm F-5E Tiger II Elbit Systems PAC CT/4E Airtrainer ETC Pilatus PC-9 ETC Saab JAS 39 Gripen C/D Saab Thailand - Army Bell 212 RDE Bell UH-1H Huey CAE Sikorsky UH-60L DoDaam Tunisia - Air Force Aero Vod L-59T Albatros Letov LV Generic ETC Turkey - Air Force Boeing F-4E-2020 Phantom II Havelsan Boeing F-4E-2020 Phantom II Havelsan EADS CASA CN-235-100 Havelsan Generic fighter ETC Generic fighter ETC KAI KT-1 Havelsan KAI KT-1 Havelsan KAI KT-1 Havelsan LM F-16C Block 30 L-3 Link USA LM F-16C Block 40 L-3 Link USA LM F-16C Block 40 L-3 Link USA LM F-16C Block 40 Havelsan LM F-16C Block 50 Havelsan LM F-16C Block 50 Havelsan LM F-16C Block 50 Havelsan LM F-16C Block 50+ Havelsan LM F-16C Block 50+ Havelsan LM F-16C Block 50+ Havelsan Northrop T-38M Havelsan Northrop T-38M Havelsan Several C-130, F-16, T-38, UH60 ETC Turkey - Army AW T129 Havelsan Bell UH-1D Huey CAE Eurocopter Cougar AS-532 Havelsan Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk S-70 Havelsan Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk S-70 Havelsan Turkey - Navy Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk Havelsan Sikorsky S-70B Seahawk Havelsan UAE - Air Force BAES Hawk 63 Thales Dassault Mirage 2000-9 Sogitec Dassault Mirage 2000-9 Sogitec Dassault Mirage 2000-9 Sogitec Dassault Mirage 2000EAD Thales Generic ETC Generic SE instrument trainer ETC LM C-130J Hercules CAE LM F-16E/F Sogitec LM F-16E/F Sogitec LM F-16E/F Block 60 LM LM F-16E/F Block 60 LM Pilatus PC-7 CAE Pilatus PC-9 Frasca

ESIG 3000 / 3ch/3w 150x40

6h

PC IG / 1ch/1w 120x70 PC IG / 1ch/1wC 40x30 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Thales Space / 5chPD 200x60 PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x30 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Saab Grape/PC / 9chD 240x155

6hY 4EY 0 0G 0 3E 0 0

DISI Extreme / 5chPD 220x80 SP-3T / 3ch/3w 150x40 Eigen / 3ch/PD 220x60

6E 6h 6E

PC IG / 3ch/3w 180x40 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30

0 3E

PXC IG / 3ch/3w 210x60 0 PXC IG / 3ch/3w 210x60 0 EPX-5000 / 3chCC 180x40 6h PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 1EG PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 4EY Medallion 6220 / 3Ch/PD 210x60 0G Medallion 6220 / 3Ch/PD 210x60 0VG Medallion 6220 / 9ch/PD 270x110 0VG ESIG-3000 / 3ch/3w 120x40 0 ESIG-3000 / 3ch/3w 120x40 0 ESIG-3000 / 5chD 330x45 0 Medallion 6220 / 25ch/D 360x135 0VMGD Medallion 6220 / 25ch/D 360x135 0VMGD Medallion 6220 / 3ch/W 150x40 0 Medallion 6220 / 3ch/W 150x40 0 Medallion 6220 / 25ch/D 360x135 0VMGD Medallion 6220 / 3Ch/PD 210X60 0 Medallion 6220 / 3ch/W 150x40 0 Medallion 6220 / 3ch/PD 210x90 0 Medallion 6220 / 9ch/PD 240x90 0V PXC IG / 5ch/5w 120x70 4EY PC-IG / 3ch/3w 180x45 ESIG-600 / 3ch/3w 150x40 EPX-5000 / 5chC 220x60 EPX-5000 / 5chCC 220x60 EPX-5000 / 3ch/3w 210x60

0 6h 6hV 6hV 0

EPX-5000 / 5chCC 220x60 EPX-500 / 3ch/3w 180x45

6hV 0

Image IIIT / 3ch/3w 150x40 Apogee-3 / 6chD6m 270x135 Apogee-3/4 / 6chD 270x135 Apogee / 3ch/3w 150x45 Visa / 6chD 270x60 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Medallion 6000 / 3ch/3w 210 X 50 Apogee4 / 8chD8m 300x130 Apogee-3/4 / 3ch/3w 160x40 ESIG-4530 / 3ch/3w 150x40 PC IG / 5chD 250x50 MaxVue / 3ch/3w 150x40 TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40

6h 0 0 0 0 4EY 3E 6h 0 0 0 0 0 0

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Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

UAE - CAE Training Centre Bell B412/212 CAE Tropos / 3ch/3w 180x60 UAE - Presidential Guard Sikorsky UH-60M/L Rockwell Collins PC IG / 6ch/5w 145x60 UK - Air Tanker Consortium A330-200 FSTA (Voyager) Thales ThalesView / 3chCC 200x45 UK - AgustaWestland Training Academy AgWest AW101 Generic Atlantis/Bluedrop Genesis / 3ch/3w 120x30 UK - BAE Systems BAES F-35 BAES PC IG / 5chD 200x60 Eurofighter Typhoon BAES PC IG / 6chD 180x100 Eurofighter Typhoon EDM PC / 5chPD 90x180 UK - Army Boeing Apache AH1 Longbow ATIL PFI EPX 5000 / 6chD 240x90 Boeing Apache AH1 Longbow ATIL PFI EPX 5000 / 6chPD 220x90 Various reconfig, Apache/Lynx/Gazelle Rockwell Collins EPX-50 / 5ch+2chins 160x140 UK - Army (Thales EAGLE contract) AgWest Lynx AH7/9 Thales ThalesView / 5ch/5w 220x60 UK - Cranfield Aerospace LM F-16 Cranfield Aerospace PXC IG / 1ch1w 60x40 UK - EDM Ltd. LM F-16 EDM PXC IG / 2ch1w 60x40 UK - Empire Test Pilot School Generic AMST PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 UK - FlightSafety International Training Centre for USAF Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 UK - Ministry of Defence Airbus A-400M Thales ThalesView / 5ch 225x60 UK - Navy/Army AgWest AW159 Lynx Wildcat Indra Indra INVIS / 15chD 240x120 AgWest AW159 Lynx Wildcat Indra Indra INVIS / 15chD 240x120 UK - Pennant Training Ltd. Generic fighter Pennant RasterFlite / 3ch/3w 120x40 UK - QinetiQ Eurofighter Typhoon QinetiQ QinetiQ IG / 1ch/1w 60x40 Generic F&R reconfigurable QinetiQ EPX 50 / 12chD 250x75 Generic R&M reconfigurable QinetiQ QinetiQ IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 Panavia Tornado GR4 QinetiQ XPI / 4ch/4w 270x180 UK - Royal Air Force AgWest EH-101 Merlin HC3 CAE PFI Harmony 1 / 5chCC 210x45 BAES Hawk T1 BAES Onyx 2 / 1ch/1w 40x30 BAES Hawk T1 BAES Onyx 2 / 9chD 320x130 BAES Hawk T2 CAE Medallion 6200 / 15chD 300x120 BAES Hawk T2 CAE Medallion / 5ch/5w 200x40 BAES Hawk T2 CAE Medallion / 3ch/3w 150x40 Beechcraft B200 Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 220x58 Beechcraft B200GT Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 220x58 Boeing CH-47 Chinook CAE PFI Harmony 1 / 5chCC 210x45 Boeing E-3D Sentry Thales ESIG 4530 / 3chCC 150x40 Eurocopter SA-330 Puma HC1 CAE PFI Harmony 1 / 5chCC 210x45 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 8chPD 240x130 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion 6000 / 13chD 360x130 Eurofighter Typhoon EF ASTA Consortium Medallion X / 13chD 360x130 Eurofighter Typhoon BAES Vega PC IG / 5chPD 220x140 Eurofighter Typhoon QinetiQ XPI / 12chD 250x75 Eurofighter Typhoon QinetiQ XPI / 12chD 260x42 Eurofighter Typhoon QinetiQ XPI / 1ch/1w 60x40 Eurofighter Typhoon Thales ThalesView / 1ch/1w 40x30 Generic AMST PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Generic ETC PXC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 LM C-130 Hercules CAE USA ESIG-4530 / 5chCC 210x45 LM KC-130J Hercules CAE USA ESIG-4530 / 5chCC 210x45 Panavia Tornado GR4 QinetiQ XPI / 12chD 250x75 Panavia Tornado GR4 QinetiQ XPI / 1ch/1w 60x40 Panavia Tornado GR4 QinetiQ XPI / 5chD 180x40 Panavia Tornado GR4 Thales Harmony 1 / 10chD 270x60 Raytheon Sentinel R1 (ASTOR) Rockwell Collins ESIG / 3ch/3w 150x40 UK - Royal Navy AgWest EH-101 Merlin HM1 CAE MaxVue / 5chCC 180x40 AgWest EH-101 Merlin HM1 CAE MaxVue / 8chD 270x70 AgWest Lynx HAS8 CAE MaxVue / 5chCC 210x40 AgWest Sea King 6 Thales ThalesView / 4ch/5w 200x45 UK - Defence Helicopter Flying School Bell 412EP Frasca TruVision / 3ch/3w 170x45 Bell 412EP FSI Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 UK - Universities Generic Merlin FSG AAlchemy / 1ch1w 60x40 Generic Merlin FSG PC IG / 3chx3w 120x40 Generic GA Merlin FSG PC IG / 3ch3w 120x40 48

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Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

UK - US Air Force Bell CV-22 Osprey FSI Boeing F-15C Eagle Boeing Uruguay - Air Force Bell B212 Indra Pilatus PC-7 Frasca USA - Air Force Alenia C-27J Spartan FSI Alenia C-27J Spartan FSI Beechcraft Beech 400A Jayhawk LM Beechcraft T-6A Texan II Frasca Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II ETC Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Bell CV-22 Osprey FSI Bell CV-22 Osprey FSI Bell CV-22 Osprey FSI Bell CV-22 Osprey FSI Bell TH-1H Huey CSC Bell UH-1H Huey LM Bell UH-1N Huey FSI Bell UH-1N Huey FSI Boeing B1B Lancer Thales Boeing B-1B Lancer Boeing Boeing B-52B Stratofortress Boeing Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing E-3A/B/C Sentry CAE Boeing F-15A/C Eagle LM Boeing F-15C Eagle Boeing Boeing F-15E Eagle Boeing Boeing F-15E Eagle LM Boeing KC-10A Extender Thales Boeing KC-135R Stratotanker Thales/Boeing Boeing RC-135R/W Rivet Joint Rockwell Collins Gen Atomics Predator GCS L-3 Link USA Generic fighter Wyle (operator) Generic fighter ETC Generic fighter reconfigurable USAF AFRL/Link Generic fighter reconfigurable USAF AFRL Generic fighter reconfigurable USAF AFRL Generic ETC Generic ETC Generic ETC Generic ETC Generic reconfigurable USAF AFRL LM AC-130U Gunship TRU S+T LM A-10 USAF AFRL LM AC-130U Hercules CAE USA LM AC-130U Hercules LM LM C-130 Hercules CAE USA LM C-130H Hercules CAE USA LM C-130H Hercules CAE USA LM C-130J Hercules CAE

Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 ESIG-4350 / 3ch3W 150x40

0V 0

Invis2 / 3ch3w 190x40 FVS / 1ch/1w 40x60

0 0

Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 CATI / 5chCC 200x40 EPX / 3ch/4w 200x40 FVS-200TX / 3ch/3w 150x40 Vital 9 / 1ch/1w 45x33 Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 Vital 9 / 1ch/1w 45x33 Vital 9 / 4ch/5w 270x70 Vital 9 / 1ch/1w 45x33 Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 PC IG / 3ch/3w 110x40 Vital 9 / 1ch/1w 45x33 Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 Vital 9 / 1ch/1w 45x33 Vital 9 / 4ch/5w 270x70 Vital 9 / 1ch/1w 45x33 Vital 9 / 4ch/5w 270x70 Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 ESIG-500 / 4ch/5w 220x40 Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 ESIG / 3ch/3w 150x40 SP-3T / 3ch/3w 150x40 EPX-500 / 3ch/3w 150x40 Vital 9 / 3chCC 180x40 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Medallion / 5chCC 225x50 SE2000 / 3ch/3w 150x40 ESIG-4350 / 6chD 330x60 Independence / 6chD 330x60 ESIG 500 / 5chD 250x50 ESIG-4350 / 4ch/5w 225x45 ESIG-4530 / 5ch/6w 225x45 ESIG-5530 / 3chCC 150x40 SimuView / 3ch/3w 150x40 PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x35 PC IG / 3ch/3w 110x30 SGI / 8chF 330x75 Onyx / 6chD 266x110 PC IG / 6chPD 330x75 PC IG / 3ch/C 120x30 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 PC IG / 3ch/C 120x30 PC IG / 3ch/C 120x30 PC IG / 6chD 330x75 Vital X / 5chCC 220x45 TsAGI / 3ch/3w 150x40 Vital 9 / 3chCC 180x40 PT-4000 / 3ch/3w 150x40 CompuScene 4 / 3chCC 150x40 ESIG 4000 / 3chCC 150x40 Vital 4 / 3chCC 150x40 Vital X / 3ch/3w 210x50

6E 6E 0 0 0M 0M 0M 0M 0M 0M 4EY 0M 0M 0M 0M 0M 0M 6EV 0V 0V 0V 6h 6h 0M 6E 6h 6h 6h 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6E 6h 0 0 0 0 6h 6h 6h 0 4EG 3EG 0 5H 0 4EY 1EG 4EY 4EY 0 6h 0 6h 6h 0 6h 6h 6h

Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

LM C-130J Hercules CAE LM C-130J Hercules CAE LM C-5B Galaxy CAE LM F-16 US AFRL LM F-16 US AFRL LM F-16 30/40 L-3 Link USA LM F-16 CCIP L-3 Link USA LM F-16 MLU L-3 Link USA LM F-16 Multiple Blocks L-3 Link USA LM F-16 Multiple Blocks L-3 Link USA LM F-16 Multiple Blocks L-3 Link USA LM F-16A/C L-3 Link USA LM F-16A/C L-3 Link USA LM F-16C Flight-Dynamix LM F-16C Block 50 Boeing LM F-16C Block 50/52 LM LM F-22 Raptor L-3 Link USA LM F-22 Raptor L-3 Link USA LM F-22A Raptor Flight-Dynamix LM F-35A-C Lightning II (JSF) Flight-Dynamix LM F-35A-C Lightning II (JSF) LM LM HC-130P Hercules FSI LM HC-130P Hercules FSI LM KC-130J Hercules LM LM MC-130E Hercules LM LM MC-130H Hercules LM LM MC-130P Hercules LM LM MC-130W FSI LM MC-130H Talon II TRU S+T LM MC-130H Talon II TRU S+T LM MC-130P Shadow TRU S+T NorGrumm A-10C LM NorGrumm A-10C LM NorGrumm B-2A Spirit L-3 Link USA NorGrumm E-8C JSTARS Rockwell Collins NorGrumm T-38C Talon Boeing NorGrumm T-38C Talon Boeing NorGrumm T-38C Talon Boeing Pilatus U-28A (PC-12) TRU S+T Raytheon T-1A Jayhawk Camber Raytheon T-1A Jayhawk L-3 Link USA Sikorsky HH-60 AGSS FSI

Sikorsky HH-60G Black Hawk LM Sikorsky MH-53J Stallion LM Sikorsky MH-53M Stallion LM Sikorsky MH-60G Black Hawk Camber USA - Air Force/NTC LM F-16C Block 25/42 LM USA - Air Force Reserve NorGrumm A-10C LM NorGrumm A-10C LM USA - Air Force/Air National Guard LM F-16C Block 30 LM NorGrumm A-10C LM NorGrumm A-10C LM NorGrumm A-10C LM NorGrumm A-10C LM NorGrumm A-10C LM

Vital X / 3ch/3w 210x50 6h Medallion 6000 / 3ch/3w 210x50 6h Vital 8 / 5chCC 225x50 6h PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 PC IG / 3chHMD 360x90 0G Simuview / 7chF 330x130 0 SimuView HD / 18ChF 360x130 0 SimuView / 7chF 330x130 0 SimuView / 2chHMD 360 FoR 0 SimuView / 1ch/1w 360x130 0 SimuView / 9ChF 360x130 0 Meta VR / 5chD 330x45 0 SimuView / 4chF 180x130 0 EPX / 1ch/1w 60x25 0 ESIG / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 Vital 9 / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 SimuView / 8chF 360x130 0 SimuView / 2ch/2w 90x40 0 EPX / 1ch/1w 40x20 0 EPX / 3ch/3w 150x40 0 PC IG / 25chD 360x150 0 Vital X / 5chCC 225x50 6E Vital X / 5chCC 225x50 6E SGI / 4ch/5w 200x50 6h Vital 9 / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Vital 9 / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Vital 9 / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Vital 9 / 5chCC 224x50 6E Vital X / 5chCC 220x45 6h Vital X / 5chCC 225x50 6h Vital X / 5chCC 200x40 6h PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 0 PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 0 Redifun / 5ch 220x45 6h EPX-5530 / 3chCC 180x40 6h ESIG-4530 / 6chD 216x135 0 ESIG-4530 / 1ch/1w 40x30 0 ESIG-4530 / 6chD 330x60 0 Vital X / 4chCC 210x70 0 PC / 3ch/3wC 150x40 0 Raster XT / 5ch 220x45 0 Vital 9 / 5chCC, 6EV +2 6 channel gunner domes 200x45 Vital 9 / 4ch/5w 220x50 6h CompuScene 5 / 4ch/5w 220x50 6h CompuScene 5 / 4ch/5w 220x50 6h SGI / 5chD 150x40 0 PC IG / 20ch/11w 360x130

0

PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140

0 0

PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140

0 0 0 0 0 0

Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

USA - Air Force/Reserve LM F-16C Block 30 LM LM F-16C Block 30 LM USA - Army Bell TH-1H Iroquois FSI Bell TH-67 Creek FSI Bell TH-67 Creek FSI Boeing A/MH-6M Little Bird CAE Boeing AH-64 Apache CAE Boeing AH-64 Apache CAE Boeing AH-64D Longbow Boeing Boeing MH-47E Chinook CAE/L-3 Link Boeing MH-47G Chinook CAE Eurocopter UH72 Frasca 5 helicopter types L-3 Link USA 5 helicopter types L-3 Link USA 5 helicopter types L-3 Link USA Sikorsky UH-60 A/L Black Hawk FSI Sikorsky UH-60 A/L/M Black Hawk FSI Sikorsky UH-60A/L Black Hawk Rockwell Collins Sikorsky UH-60M/L Rockwell Collins USA - Avenge, Inc. Beechcraft RC-12/King Air 300 F2Si USA - Boeing Training Facility Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI Boeing C-17 Globemaster III FSI USA - CAE USA Training Center LM C-130H Hercules CAE USA LM C-130H Hercules CAE USA USA - Coast Guard American Eurocopter HH-65C Dolphin ASI Boeing HH60J/HH65C ASI Dassault HU-25 Falcon ASI EADS-CASA HC-144A ASI EADS-CASA HC-144A ASI Sikorsky HH-60J Jayhawk ASI Sikorsky MH-60T Black Hawk JFTI Sikorsky MH-60T Jayhawk ASI Sikorsky MH-60T Jayhawk ASI USA - DoD Mil Mi-17 Hip Elbit Systems Mil Mi-24P Hind Elbit Systems Mil Mi-8MTV Hip Elbit Systems USA - EDM Mobile Training BAES Hawk AJT EDM USA - ERA Seacor Training Centre AgWest AW139 AgWest/Frasca USA - German Air Force Panavia Tornado RDE Bremen USA - Link Training Centre Boeing CH-47F Chinook FSI Boeing UH-60M FSI Boeing UH-60M FSI USA - LM Training Center LM F-16C Flight-Dynamix LM F-16 MLU Thales USA - Marine Corps Bell AH-1W Super Cobra L-3 Link USA, Veraxx

PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140 PC IG / 18ch/8w 360x140

0 0

Vital 9 / 5chCC 200x60CC 6EV Vital 9 / 1ch/1w 18x24 0V Vital 9 / 3chCC 180x50 6EV Medallion S / 4ch/5w 240x90 6h ESIG-1000 / 2chHMD 360x120 0 MaxVue / 2chHMD 360x120 0 ESIG-2000 / 4ch/5w 180x60 0 Medallion S / 5chCC 210x50 6h Medallion S / 5chCC 225x50 6h TruVision / 3ch/3w 150x40 6h Link / 5chCC 200x45 6h Link / 2chHMD 360x150 0 Link / 2chHMD 360x150 0 Link SimuView / 1ch/1w 24x18 0V Link SimuView / 5chCC+2chin 200x45 6EV PC IG / 5chCC 220x45 6h PC IG / 6ch/5w 145x60 0M LCD Mosaic Wall / 4ch/4w 40x180

6E

Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x50 Vital X / 5chCC 225x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 225x51

6E 6E 6E

Vital 4 / 3chCC 150x40 Medallion 6000 / 5chCC 220x40

6h 6E

PXC IG / 3ch/4w 180x40 PXC IG / 2ch/2w 90x40 PXC IG / 3ch/4w 180x40 pC-NOVA / 9chC 290x60 pC-NOVA / 4ch/4w 135x40 pC-NOVA / 3ch/4w 180x40 Alion / 4ch/5w 220x45 PXC IG / 3ch/4w 180x40 pC-NOVA / 3ch/4w 180x40

6h 0 6h 6E 0 6h 0 0 6E

PC IG / 3chPD 180x60 PC IG / 3chPD 180x60 PC IG / 3chPD 180x60

6EV 6EV 6EV

PC / 2ch/2w 35x90

0

TruVision / 6chPD 200x70

0

PC IG / 10ChD 360x120

0

Vital 9 / 5chCC+2chin 225x50

6EV

Link SimuView / 5chCC+2chin 200x45 6EV Link SimuView / 5chCC+2chin 200x45 6EV

EPX / 1ch/1w 60x25 ESIG-4350 / 3ch/3w 150x40

0 0

Vital 9 / 5chD 330x60

6h

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Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Bell AH-1Z Super Cobra FSI Bell AH-1Z Super Cobra FSI Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey Veraxx Eng. Corp.

Bell Boeing MV-22B Osprey Veraxx Eng. Corp.

Bell MV-22 Osprey FSI Bell MV-22 Osprey FSI Bell UH-1N Huey L-3 Link USA, ASI Bell UH-1N Huey ASI Bell UH-1N Huey JFTI, Veraxx Bell UH-1Y Super Huey FSI Bell UH-1Y Super Huey FSI Boeing AV8A Harrier Thales Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight ASI Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight ASI Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight CAE USA Boeing CH-46E Sea Knight LM Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet L-3 Link USA Boeing F/A-18D Hornet LM Boeing/BAES AV8B Harrier II Indra Boeing/BAES Harrier II Boeing LM F-35A-C Lightning II (JSF) LM LM KC-130F/R Hercules CAE LM KC-130J Hercules CAE USA LM KC-130J Hercules LM LM KC-130R Hercules CAE LM KC-130T Hercules LM NorGrumm EA-6B Prowler SymSystems Sikorsky CH-53D Sea Stallion L-3 Link USA, DEI Sikorsky CH-53E ASI Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion USN Pax River MFS Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion LM Sikorsky CH-53E Super Stallion L-3 Link USA, JFTI Sikorsky VH-3D Sea King ASI Sikorsky VH-60N Black Hawk ASI USA - NASA Boeing AH-64 Apache CAE Generic fighter reconfigurable NASA Langley Generic fighter reconfigurable NASA Langley Generic reconfigurable NASA Ames Generic reconfigurable NASA Langley Generic reconfigurable NASA Langley Generic reconfigurable NASA Langley USA - NASA/Navy/USAF Generic reconfigurable NASA Langley USA - NASTAR Center Generic fighter ETC Generic fighter ETC Multiple F-18, F-16, F-35, F-22 ETC USA - National Test Pilot School Configurable Fighter/UAV Camber USA - Navy Beechcraft Beech T-34C Mentor Rockwell Collins Beechcraft C12 King Air 200 MES Inc. Beechcraft T-6A Texan II FSI Beechcraft T-6B Texan II FSI Bell AH-1W Super Cobra JFTI Bell TH-57 SeaRanger CAE Boeing A/F-18 Hornet ETC Boeing B737 P-8A Poseidon CAE Boeing B737 P-8A Poseidon CAE Boeing CH-46 Sea Knight CAE USA Boeing E/A-18G Growler L-3 Link USA Boeing E-6B Mercury CAE Boeing EA-18G Super Hornet Boeing Boeing F/A-18 Super Hornet CAE Boeing F/A-18C L-3 Link USA Boeing F/A-18C L-3 Link USA Boeing F/A-18C L-3 Link USA Boeing F/A-18C/D Hornet L-3 Link USA Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet L-3 Link USA Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet L-3 Link USA Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet L-3 Link USA Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Boeing Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet Boeing Generic fighter Wyle (operator) Generic fighter interchangeable cockpits USN Pax River MFS Generic ETC 50

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Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 pC-NOVA / 6ch/5w 220x60 pC-NOVA / 6ch/5w 220x60 Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 Vital 9 / 5chCC 220x60 Vital / 5chD 330x60 pC-NOVA / 3ch/4w 180x40 pC-NOVA / 3ch/3w 150x55 Vital 9 / 5chCC 200x60 Vital 9 / 5chCC 200x60 Harmony / 6chD 330x60 ESIG-2000 / 3ch/4w 180x40 pC-NOVA / 3ch/4w 180x40 CompuScene 4 / 4ch/5w 220x70 ESIG-5530 / 3ch/4w 200x40 SimuView HD / 10ch/9wF 360x130 AAlchemy / 3ch/3w 150x40 pC-NOVA / 8chF 360x135 CompuScene4 / 6chD 330x60 PC IG / 25chD 360x150 CompuScene5 / 5chCC 220x50 Vital 9 / 5chCC 200x50 AAlchemy / 5chCC 200x50 CompuScene 6 / 3chCC 150x40 Vital 9 / 3ch/3w 150x40 PC IG / 3ch/3w 190x45 ESIG 5530 / 5chCC+2chin 220x45 pC-NOVA / 3ch/4w 180x40 Alenia / 3ch/4w 180x40 CompuScene 5 / 4ch/5w 200x60 pC-NOVA / 4ch/5w 220x70 ESIG-5530 / 3ch/3w 150x55 ESIG-5530 / 3ch/3w 150x55

6EV 0V 0V 0V 6hV 0V 6h 6h 0 6EV 0V 6h 0 6h 6h 0 0 0 0G 0 0 6h 6h 6h 6h 6h 0 6h 0 0 0 6h 0 0

ESIG-1000 / 2chHMD 360x120 NASA / 6ch6w 135x67 NASA / 4ch 210x45 DiaScene IG-7000 / 5chCC 200x45 EP-1000 / 5chCC 200x40 EP-1000 / 4ch/4WC 184x34 EP-1000 / 5chCC 200x40

0 0 0 6h 6h 6h 6h

ESIG/EP / 5chD 360x120

0

PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x30 PC IG / 3ch/3w 110x70

4EY 4EY 3EG

Q3D / 3ch/3w 150x40

0

PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 PC IG / 3ch/3w 150x40 Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 Vital 9 / 7chPD 270x70 ESIG-4530 / 6chPD 250x60 SP-3T / 5chCC 210x40 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30 Medallion / 3chCC 150x40 Medallion / 3chCC 150x40 ESIG-5000 / 4ch/5w 220x70 SimuView / 10ch/9wF SimuView HD Medallion 6000 / 3chCC 200x45 SimuView / 6chD 330x60 M-2000 / 2chHMD 360x120 SimuView / 1ch/1w 40x30 SimuView HD / 10ch/9wF 360x130 SimuView / 10ch/9wF 360x130 SimuView / 3ch/3w 69x40 SimuView / 6ch/5wF 180x40 SimuView / 8ch/7wF 300x140 SimuView HD / 10ch/9wF 360x130 SimuView / 6chD 300x120 SimuView / 6chD 330x60 PC IG / 3ch/3w 120x35 ESIG-2000 / 6chF 270x75 PC IG / 1ch/1w 40x30

3h 0 0M 0M 0 6h 3EG 6h 6h 6h 0 6h 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4EG 0 3E

Aircraft Type

Simulator Image/Visual Motion Manufacturer Generator/Display Axes

Generic heli interchangeable cockpits Generic heli interchangeable cockpits Generic multi interchangeable cockpits

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