Army To Use Robinson R66 For Its New Helicopter Pilot Training Concept
M1 will train 800 to 1,500 Army helicopter pilots a year under a contractor-owned, contractor-operated model with commercial aircraft and simulators.
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US Army moves to Robinson R66 under $10B training deal
The US Army has selected the Robinson R66 as its next primary helicopter trainer under a contract with M1 Support Services worth up to $10 billion over 26 years. The Army announced that M1 had won its Flight School Next competition, a major overhaul of initial helicopter pilot training at Fort Rucker, Alabama. M1’s winning training system is built around the turbine-powered R66, which will take over the primary training role now performed by the…
The training of future U.S. Army helicopter pilots takes place at the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence (USAACE) at Fort Rucker, Alabama. They begin their training at the controls of a UH-72 Lakota, which is essentially an H145M produced by Airbus Helicopters. However, in practice, this aircraft proved to be far too... This article, "To train its helicopter pilots, the U.S. Army will replace its Airbus UH-72 Lakotas with Robinson R66s," fi…
R66 to be the next trainer for US Army as M1 Support Services wins FSN contract - RotorHub International
The race is run and future generations of US Army Aviators will cut their teeth in an R66. Dallas area based M1 Support Services has been named as the successful bidder for the US Army’s USD 10 billion Flight School Next programme. Under the terms of the award M1 will be the prime contractor for the Army’s Initial Entry Rotary Wing (IERW) and will be expected to train between 800 and 1500 army aviators annually at Fort Rucker. While the army ha…
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