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Thu, Jul 03, 2003

T-6A Texan II Starts Training Navy Flyers

Navy’s Newest Trainer aircraft Starts Duty

Class began June 30 at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Fla. for the first group of naval flight officer students to train with the T-6A Texan II, the Navy’s newest trainer aircraft.

NAVAIR’s Undergraduate Flight Training System Program Office (PMA-273) accepted the first two T-6 Texans in November 2002 and has been accepting one or two every month since for a current inventory total of 15. The T-6 will replace the T-34 trainers and provide increased capabilities allowing pilots to fly higher and faster.

The first few weeks of the syllabus will be ground training only, which combines academic and computer-based training with the use of simulator exercises. There are currently three T-6 simulators in place at Pensacola with two more scheduled to arrive in November 2004. Actual flights for the NFOs in the T-6 will begin in August. By then, the Navy should have a total of 19 Texans in its inventory. Ultimately, the goal is to buy 328 T-6s.

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. 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 will begin their training with the technology they will actually fly in their fleet combat aircraft. [ANN Thanks Renee Hatcher, PEO(A) Public Affairs]

FMI; www.navair.mil

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