Marine Operational Squadrons Will Be Equipped With Simulators.

• Jurisdiction: United States
• Date: 01 November 2000
• Author: Erwin, Sandra I.

The Marine Corps' roadmap for building a new suite of flight simulators is driven by the need to offer aviators wider and more frequent access to training equipment, officials said.

The military services today envision that their simulation-based flight trainers will be "networked," said Navy Capt. Rory H. Fisher, program manager for aviation training at the Naval Air Systems Command. "The Marine Corps simulator master plan is attempting to do that, to take all the Marine platforms and create a network of flight simulators." The trainers will be applicable to all model series--the AV-8 Harrier, the F/A-18 Hornet, the EA-6B

Prowler, the KC-130, and the AH-1W, UH-1N, CH-46E and CH-53E helicopters. The program's "end product," said Fisher, will be "networked flight simulators, both fixed-site and removable."

Last March, the Naval Air...