US Air Force’s 366th Fighter Wing gets F-15E Mission Training Center
The first F-15E Mission Training Center (MTC) for the U.S. Air Force’s 366th Fighter Wing was opened at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho. The center will provide aircrews with high-fidelity, simulator-based training without the material and personnel costs associated with training on operational aircraft.
The training center provides two high-fidelity, dual-cockpit F-15E simulators with a 360-degree visual system, a robust synthetic environment as well as instructor/operator and brief/debrief stations. The simulators, enhanced with a head-tracked area-of-interest display visual system, can be operated individually or linked to provide two- or four-ship training within the MTC. They also can be linked locally with two medium-fidelity F-15E Manned Combat Stations to allow local four-ship training. After a few months of operation, the MTC will join the Air Force’s Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) training network.
Under the F-15E MTC contract, USAF will get two additional F-15E MTC sites in the near future, at Seymour Johnson Air Force Base, N.C., and at Royal Air Force Lakenheath in the United Kingdom. Mountain Home and Seymour Johnson each will receive a second F-15E MTC in 2008.
USAF currently operates five Air Force F-15C Mission Training Centers around the globe In addition there are F-15E and F-16 Mission Training Center contracts. USAF is also integrating the F-22 Raptor into the DMO training network.
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