Rheinmetall’s Asterion simulator is allowing crews to train even before delivery of the first new NH90 NTH Sea Lion helicopter to the German Navy.
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Press
Release, Düsseldorf, 16 December 2019. Thanks to advanced
simulation technology from Rheinmetall, ground personnel of the
German Navy’s new NH90 NTH Sea Lion helicopter are already able to
start training. Back in mid-June of this year, Rheinmetall
Electronics GmbH handed over the Functional Cockpit, an integral part
of the Maintenance and Repair Trainer for the NH90 Naval Transport
Helicopter (NTH). Rheinmetall developed the Functional Cockpit based
on the Group’s in-house Asterion product line.
Enabling
complete ground crew training, the Functional Cockpit is built into a
full-size replica of the NH90 NTH Sea Lion transport helicopter.
Thanks to early delivery of the training system, ground crews were
able to begin preparing for their new tasks even before the arrival
of the first original helicopter, which has since taken place. Apart
from its mission of training ground personnel who in future will be
responsible for maintaining and repairing the new helicopter, the
Functional Cockpit can also be used for instructing pilots.
Particularly to begin with, this will be a major advantage, as
availability of the original helicopters for training purposes will
necessarily be limited.
The Functional Cockpit for the NH90
NTH dispatched to Nordholz Naval Airbase was the second delivery of
training systems for NH90 ground personnel. Asterion-based ground
crew training systems were already in operation in Fassberg, a German
Army Aviation Corps base in Lower Saxony. Here, Germany Army ground
personnel undergo training in operational and maintenance procedures
for the NH90 TTH in three exact replica cockpits.
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