Wed, Oct 31, 2007
Will Provide Crews With Sim-Based Training
Boeing recently opened its first
F-15E Mission Training Center (MTC) for the US Air Force's 366th
Fighter Wing at Idaho's Mountain Home Air Force Base. The center
will provide aircrews with high-fidelity, simulator-based training
without the material and personnel costs associated with training
on operational aircraft.
"The F-15E MTC provides a huge leap in technology and capability
for our Air Force customer," said Tony Jones, vice president,
Training Systems and Services, a division of IDS Support Systems.
"Because of the added capabilities provided by the visual systems
and other advanced features of the MTC, F-15E aircrews now will be
able to experience more realistic scenarios to match today's
demanding missions."
The training center provides two high-fidelity, dual-cockpit
F-15E simulators with a 360-degree visual system, a robust
synthetic environment as well as instructor/operator and
brief/debrief stations. The simulators, enhanced with a
head-tracked area-of-interest display visual system, can be
operated individually or linked to provide two- or four-ship
training within the MTC. They also can be linked locally with two
medium-fidelity F-15E Manned Combat Stations to allow local
four-ship training. After a few months of operation, the MTC will
join the Air Force's Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) training
network.
Boeing supports this training capability with several key
products, including the Visual Integrated Display System, Manned
Combat Stations and the Big Tac Combat Environment Server. Boeing
also provides the key network elements to enable local networked
and long-haul networked training. Lockheed Martin provides the
instructor/operator station, the non-combatant natural environment
system and electro optical/infrared imaging system along with the
geographic databases. SAIC provides the brief/debrief station.
Under the F-15E MTC contract, Boeing will open two additional
F-15E MTC sites in the near future, at Seymour Johnson Air Force
Base, NC, and at Royal Air Force Lakenheath in the United Kingdom.
Mountain Home and Seymour Johnson each will receive a second F-15E
MTC in 2008.
Boeing has delivered and currently operates five Air Force F-15C
Mission Training Centers around the globe and is the prime
contractor for the F-15E and F-16 Mission Training Center
contracts. Boeing also is integrating the F-22 Raptor into the DMO
training network.
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