The Army Aviation Collective Training Solution: Avcatt-a

The existing suite of training devices for Army aviators is composed of single cockpit, stand-alone devices designed to support training appropriate for an individual aviator or a single crew. These training devices, while completely appropriate for individual aviator and crew training do not possess the networking and interoperability capability necessary to address collective, unit-level training of multiple crews. This inability to provide company/troop level collective training is to be corrected with the development and procurement of AVCATT-A. This paper will provide an overview of the total AVCATT-A training solution to meet stringent Army aviation collective training requirements. The AVCATT-A represents a different approach to both the level of training addressed and the fidelity of the training devices. AVCATT-A is intended to provide company/troop level training for Army aviation reconnaissance, attack, assault and support units via six networked, reconfigurable cockpits interacting with a rich synthetic battlespace housed in a mobile facility. This approach differs radically from that of fixed site, aircraft specific, limited synthetic battlespace, individual aviator or crew level training devices that comprise the existing training suite.