UK flight training ascends to reality as aircraft arrive
The first courses to be provided under the UK’s new military flying training systems (MFTS) are to begin in less than a year when Royal Navy observers star
The first courses to be provided under the UK’s new military flying training systems (MFTS) are to begin in less than a year when Royal Navy observers start training next May. Later that year, advanced jet training with new BAE Systems Hawks is to begin, and air crew destined for that training are already preparing on the first of six flight training devices installed at the Royal Air Force’s Valley base.
Prime MFTS contractor Ascent Flight Services has been busy implementing the complex 25-year program in the two years since it sealed a training partner service contract in June 2008. Ascent is a joint venture between Lockheed Martin’s Simulation, Training and Support division and the UK’s VT Group.
