Three MH-60R flight trainers in service with US Navy
Three MH-60R tactical operational flight trainers (TOFT) built by CAE USA are now in service with the US Navy, having been declared ready-for-training. CAE announced the news on 18 June.
The trainers are located at Naval Air Station (NAS) Jacksonville; Naval Station (NS) Mayport; and Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), formerly Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay.
All three MH-60R 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.
Ray Duquette, president and general manager, CAE USA, said: ‘We are pleased to continue our relationship with the US Navy on the MH-60 Seahawk programme. The navy is increasingly leveraging synthetic training to cost-effectively train and prepare aircrews for mission success, and CAE is honoured to play a role in delivering the high-fidelity simulators required to meet their training requirements.’
CAE also announced that it has recently delivered an MH-60R/S TOFT to Naval Air Facility Atsugi, Japan. The simulator is reconfigurable between the MH-60S and MH-60R helicopter platforms. According to the company the simulator is currently undergoing installation and integration testing, and will be ready-for-training later this summer.
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