Mark Pilling
Thomson Training & Simulation (TT&S) has won a £25 million contract to provide aircrew training for UK Army Lynx helicopters.
The order is the second TT&S has been awarded under a Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contract, following the award last year of a project for aircrew training for the RAF Tornado GRMk4.The Defence Procurement Agency, Flight Simulators & Synthetic Training Integrated Project Team awarded the contract for TT&S to provide the Lynx Aircrew Training Service (LATS) for the Army Air Corps Lynx Mk7 and Mk9 helicopters.
Synthetic TT&S will build a training service at a new facility at the School of Army Aviation, Middle Wallop. The LATS will use a suite of synthetic training equipment made up of computer-based trainers, a cockpit procedures trainer and a flight simulator.
The procedures trainer and flight simulator will be re-configurable to enable training on both marks of UK Army Lynx. The flight simulator will feature a six-degrees of freedom motion system and a five-channel image generator.
The new PFI contract confirms the status of TT&S as the major UK military aircrew training service provider, says TT&S Chairman and CEO Stanislas Guerin.
Source: Flight Daily News
