ST. LOUIS–Boeing [BA] says it has developed portable flight simulators that can be used by the Navy to make real training missions more efficient.
The simulators have been deployed to ground stations, but Boeing is aiming to persuade the Navy to put them on aircraft carriers, said John Keeven, the company’s flight simulator for Navy programs at its facility here. The simulators are small enough to occupy small areas, Keeven said.
Keeven said the simulators could be assigned to carrier air wing squadrons, which could use them while stationed on land bases and transfer them to carriers before deploying. Rehearsing training missions in the simulators would maximize the use of valuable flight hours once pilots take to the skies, Keeven told Defense Daily during a visit to the facility last week.