CSC Provides U.S. Army Flight School XXI Training Capability

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This training capability is housed in a new 136,000-square foot facility dubbed 'Warrior Hall' and consists of 38 aviation training simulators. CSC is responsible for all aspects of the facility from building security to simulator and facility operations and maintenance. In a separate government facility, collective training consists of 18 reconfigurable training devices that can communicate with each other and be reconfigured into a specific aircraft with exchangeable panels and software.

FSXXI allows the Army to meet its long-term training objective of 60 percent simulation and 40 percent live training. The FSXXI simulators offer all the flight dynamics of a real helicopter with six degrees of freedom motion and a cockpit that precisely replicates that of the real aircraft. Simulation also includes environmental conditions, such as weather, time of day, lights and lighting reflections and emergency conditions like smoke in the cockpit that could be encountered in the real world.

The views from the cockpit are built using terrain databases created from satellite imagery, which contain real-world detail using geo specific, full-color imagery and data required for low-level flight training in a specific area. This means the basic student learns to fly initially using a Fort Rucker database that is of such detail of the local landscape that he or she can recognize individual landmarks like telephone lines, buildings, and other three-dimensional structures.

On an annual basis, Flight School XXI will train 1,200 new student pilots with no previous flight experience to become combat mission aviators in helicopter platforms including the UH-60A/L Black Hawk, CH-47D Chinook, AH-64D Apache Longbow and OH-58D Kiowa Warrior. In addition, each year Flight School XXI will train 1,600 rated Army aviators in an aircraft other than the one they are currently flying.