Thu, Aug 14, 2003
The first student naval flight officer training flight in the
T-6A Texan II was commemorated last week at NAS Pensacola (FL).
Navy initial operating capability (IOC) began two months ahead
of schedule on June 30 at Training Air Wing 6 in NAS Pensacola. A
class of four Navy, one Marine and one Air Force students began
academic training in Training Squadron 10.
The T-6 is a joint aircraft, used both by the Air Force and the
Navy as part of a training system in coordination with simulator
technology, known as the Joint Primary Aircraft Training System.
The T-6 is replacing the Navy T-34C, which has provided primary
flight training for student pilots, naval flight officers, and
navigators attached to the Naval Air Training Command for more than
20 years. The T-6A is also replacing the Air Force T-37 trainer
aircraft.
The first few weeks of ground training combined academic and
computer-based training with extensive use of state-of-art flight
simulators. In the 27 weeks these students spend training in the
Texan II, they will log more than 180 hours of academic training,
27 hours of graded simulator events and 60 hours of flight time.
This training focuses on teaching basic aircraft control,
instrument and visual navigation procedures, and formation
flight.
One of the greatest advantages of the Texan is that it comes
equipped with a digital cockpit. Prior to the Texan, student
aviators conducted their initial flight training in aircraft
equipped with an analog cockpit and then made the transition to a
digital cockpit in their fleet aircraft. Now with the T-6A,
students begin their training with the technology they will
actually fly in their fleet combat aircraft.
[Thanks to Renee Hatcher, PEO(A) Public Affairs --ed.]
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