The existing suite of training devices for Army aviators is composed of single cockpit, stand-alone devices designed to support training appropriate for an individual aviator or a single crew. These training devices, while completely appropriate for individual aviator and crew training do not possess the networking and interoperability capability necessary to address collective, unit-level training of multiple crews. This inability to provide company/troop level collective training is to be corrected with the development and procurement of AVCATT-A. This paper will provide an overview of the total AVCATT-A training solution to meet stringent Army aviation collective training requirements. The AVCATT-A represents a different approach to both the level of training addressed and the fidelity of the training devices. AVCATT-A is intended to provide company/troop level training for Army aviation reconnaissance, attack, assault and support units via six networked, reconfigurable cockpits interacting with a rich synthetic battlespace housed in a mobile facility. This approach differs radically from that of fixed site, aircraft specific, limited synthetic battlespace, individual aviator or crew level training devices that comprise the existing training suite.
THE ARMY AVIATION COLLECTIVE TRAINING SOLUTION: AVCATT-A
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