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CAE’s Predator Mission Trainer Makes a Mark
CAE recently announced that General Atomics Aeronautical Systems, Inc. (GA-ASI) has installed a CAE-built Predator Mission Trainer at its Flight Test and Training Center (FTTC). The Center is located at the Grand Sky Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Business Park near Grand Forks, North Dakota, U.S.
The Predator Mission Trainer will be used to advance the capability of remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) synthetic training provided by GA-ASI at the FTTC. GA-ASI offers a range of pilot and sensor operator training at the FTTC for operators of GA-ASI’s family of RPA systems.
“Our Predator Mission Trainer delivers an unprecedented level of fidelity and capability in the use of simulation-based training for remotely piloted aircraft pilots and sensor operators,” said Todd Probert, Group President, Defense & Security, CAE. “The addition of a Predator Mission Trainer at GA-ASI’s training center in North Dakota extends our training collaboration and will enable GA-ASI to add more synthetic training to the syllabus used to train customer aircrews as well as their own instructors.”
The Predator Mission Trainer at the FTTC simulates GA-ASI’s Block 30 ground control station for the MQ-9 RPA and will be used to deliver initial qualification and aircraft sensor systems training in addition to mission-specific training. With a zero-flight time simulator such as the CAE Predator Mission Trainer, aircrews can potentially conduct all training in the simulator without necessarily requiring further training on the actual aircraft.
Later this year, CAE will reportedly deliver a second Predator Mission Trainer to GA-ASI’s Gray Butte Flight Operations Facility near Palmdale, California.
Global Trainer of Choice
The Predator Mission Trainer now operating at GA-ASI’s FTTC is similar to the first Predator Mission Trainer jointly developed by CAE and GA-ASI for the Italian Air Force, which can deliver “zero-flight time” training based on the high-fidelity simulation of both the flight model and sensor systems.
CAE conducted flight test and data gathering on an actual Italian Air Force Predator aircraft. The high-fidelity Predator Mission Trainer enables pilots and sensor operators to make a rapid transition to flight operations without additional training on the actual aircraft.
Furthermore, CAE is developing a comprehensive synthetic training system for the United Kingdom’s Protector RG Mk1 remotely piloted aircraft system (RPAS) programme. The Protector is the UK-specific variant of GA-ASI’s certifiable MQ-9B SkyGuardian RPAS, which can meet the most stringent certification requirements of aviation authorities.
CAE is also the prime contractor responsible for delivering all RPA-type conversion and mission training for their Middle East customer. The company has developed the courseware and curriculum specific to the RQ-1E Predator Medium Altitude Long-Endurance (MALE) RPA and the ground- based training system that includes desktop trainers and high-fidelity RQ-1E mission trainers. CAE instructors are also delivering classroom, live-flying, and simulator training.
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