EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - The first F-35 mission rehearsal trainer recently arrived at the 33rd Fighter Wing. It replicates the cockpit of an F-35, and is a containerized, forward-deployable version of the full mission simulator slated to arrive late this year. The trainer is one of many new technologies the three U.S. military services and eight partner nations purchasing the Joint Strike Fighter will be using. From their arrival at the 33rd Academic Training Center, students will interact with the latest technology, receiving laptops instead of books. The training will be a far cry from the traditional training methods using chalk boards, stacks of books, poster-sized visual aids and cockpit mock-ups. When the wing reaches full strength in 2014, it will train Air Force, Marine, Navy and international partner operators and maintainers of the F-35 Lightning II. (Source: Eglin PAO, 06/02/10)
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Wednesday, June 2, 2010
A new way of training
EGLIN AIR FORCE BASE, Fla. - The first F-35 mission rehearsal trainer recently arrived at the 33rd Fighter Wing. It replicates the cockpit of an F-35, and is a containerized, forward-deployable version of the full mission simulator slated to arrive late this year. The trainer is one of many new technologies the three U.S. military services and eight partner nations purchasing the Joint Strike Fighter will be using. From their arrival at the 33rd Academic Training Center, students will interact with the latest technology, receiving laptops instead of books. The training will be a far cry from the traditional training methods using chalk boards, stacks of books, poster-sized visual aids and cockpit mock-ups. When the wing reaches full strength in 2014, it will train Air Force, Marine, Navy and international partner operators and maintainers of the F-35 Lightning II. (Source: Eglin PAO, 06/02/10)
