At ITEC in Prague this week, Telespazio VEGA Deutschland (a Finmeccanica/Thales company) announced it has won a contract from Airbus Group Australia Pacific to develop an Aircraft Systems Trainer (AST) for the MRH90 helicopter, to be used by the Australian Army’s Rotary Wing Aircraft Maintenance School (RAMS) in Oakley, Queensland.
The delivery period extends for 20 months from January 2015 and will result in both hardware and software solutions for maintenance technician training for the helicopter, building on the company’s long heritage of virtual maintenance training (VMT) solutions. Telespazio VMTs are already in use in France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden for their NH90 helicopters.
Inspection, diagnostic and maintenance procedures on a variety of equipment, both internal and external, will be facilitated by the AST. The training station incorporates the facility to record, store and playback student lesson handling, thus ensuring positive and sustainable training.
Two classrooms are also to be provided under the contract. One will include an instructor station and two student PCs as well as a cockpit replication directly linked to the AST software. The second will allow up to eight students to train simultaneously on multi-monitor workstations, under instructor guidance and monitoring.
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| At ITEC 2015, Telespazio VEGA Deutschland (a Finmeccanica/Thales company) announced it has won a contract from Airbus Group Australia Pacific to develop an Aircraft Systems Trainer (AST) for the MRH90 helicopter |
The delivery period extends for 20 months from January 2015 and will result in both hardware and software solutions for maintenance technician training for the helicopter, building on the company’s long heritage of virtual maintenance training (VMT) solutions. Telespazio VMTs are already in use in France, the Netherlands, Norway and Sweden for their NH90 helicopters.
Inspection, diagnostic and maintenance procedures on a variety of equipment, both internal and external, will be facilitated by the AST. The training station incorporates the facility to record, store and playback student lesson handling, thus ensuring positive and sustainable training.
Two classrooms are also to be provided under the contract. One will include an instructor station and two student PCs as well as a cockpit replication directly linked to the AST software. The second will allow up to eight students to train simultaneously on multi-monitor workstations, under instructor guidance and monitoring.
Tim Mahon