Forum: General F-35 Forum

A Day in the Life of the F-35 and the Integrated Training Center

http://www.sldinfo.com/a-day-in-the-lif ... ng-center/

"This slideshow provides a view from the F-35 Integrated Training Center of a day in the life of this center.

The Joint Strike Fighter is born joint and the training and support approach is rooted in combing service culture with a new approach to joint training.

The slideshow has been provided by the 33rd Fighter Wing and provides a perspective of life inside the ITC difficult for outsiders to easily see.

Below the slideshow are slide notes for some but not all of the slides to provide further explanation of what the reader is seeing."

PPTX File download from whence graphic:
http://www.slideshare.net/robbinlaird/a ... n/download

Go to FIRST URL to see the notes. A lower quality compared to PPTX file PDF is attached INCLUDING the NOTES from the second URL above at SLDinfo.

F-16.net Sponsor

On a related note, has LM moved onto building fighters with hardware in Metric?

In the slideshow, is the Lollipop Lightning a mockup or a retired test article?

If you mean the F-35B with a stick up it's a$$ on page 6, it's a mockup Wink

About average for a training presentation. Page number on some slides, no number on other slides, page numbers change colors, one slide with double page numbers. One would hope the training materials have been proofed better than the slides. Then there is this statement on page 33 of the pdf:

"The Joint Strike Fighter is born joint and the training and support approach is rooted in combing service culture with a
new approach to joint training."

Confusing and not sure what "combing" is?
Yeah, I was an editor in a prior lifetime.
fisk

Have they never heard of spellcheck or templates?

It is an internet DEcease Dis-Ease? No proofreading no spellcheck NO Fact Check. No nuttin'.

Training center?

NO THANX I HAVE TOM CLANCY HAWX FOR XBOX360

SpudmanWP wrote:

Have they never heard of spellcheck or templates?

spazsinbad wrote:

It is an internet DEcease Dis-Ease? No proofreading no spellcheck NO Fact Check. No nuttin'.

Guess not, Spud, templates are so much easier. And spaz has the key, proofreading, spellcheck won't catch "combing".

Even better, put the presentation on the wall and do a peer review. Gather a group to review the whole thing once, fix the mistakes and move on. Proven to work with the least waste. A style guide for presentations would be a help.

Here endth the rant. Smile

fisk

An update to this topic from SLDinfo that perhaps should have a separate thread but anyway. It is a long interview BEST READ at source...

13 minute interview video at VIMEO: http://vimeo.com/48211330#at=0

An Update on the F-35 Integrated Training Center At Eglin AFB 09 Sep 2012 by Robbin Laird

http://www.sldinfo.com/an-update-on-the ... eglin-afb/

"...Tomassetti: We are injecting two UK pilots into the curriculum this Fall and Dutch pilot next year.

And we are shifting curriculums. The current curriculum focuses on the basics of flying the aircraft. The new syllabus goes beyond that to the use of the combat systems aboard the aircraft. We start to incorporate simulated weapons, we start to incorporate the radar and some of the other sensors on the airplane, and teach the pilot not just how to fly the airplane but how to fight with the airplane.

Question: And this shift in curriculum is associated with the upgrade process on the aircraft itself?

Tomassetti: We’ve started to modify some of those initial block 1A airplanes to the block 1B configuration. This involves both software and hardware changes to the airplane, but what it brings us a capability to continue executing additional flights in the overall F35 syllabus.

The initial block 1A syllabus consisted of six flights, basically, for the pilots. As we get the full capability of block 1B enabled in the airplanes and cleared for use, we will be up to training about 27 flights on the F35B syllabus.

It’s a pretty substantial jump in what we can execute of what will be eventually about a 50-flight syllabus in the block 3 configuration.

It is a small step with block 1A, and a bigger step with block 1B. The biggest thing we bring in with block 1B is we start to bring in some of the war fighting capability of the airplanes, some of the sensor capability of the airplane, and so to introduce the pilots to how to use those sensors, how to employ some of that combat capability.

And that’s what we’re working towards right now is to get those airplanes converted, get our block 1B syllabus, our courseware and our simulator program reviewed and certified that it’s good to go. And then hopefully, by the beginning of 2013, we’ll have all that process done. And we’ll be training pilots in block 1B and block 1A will be in the rearview mirror....

...Question: Could you talk about the software on the plane and explain the importance of software stability for a fly by wire airplane?

Tomassetti: It’s very easy when you talk about airplanes, especially, in the 21st century to talk about things like weapons capability, speed, turning capability, maneuverability, and low observability.

But what you don’t hear many people talk about is it an easy airplane to fly?

Pilots make that comment oh, this is an easy airplane to fly and that’s sometimes taken for granted, and the understanding of what it takes to make an airplane that’s easy to fly.

This is especially the case when we talk about F35, an airplane that has to fly as a conventional airplane, that has to fly as a STOVL airplane, it has to be able to perform carrier approaches and carrier landings.

Trying to make all of those different types of flying that the F35 has to do, fall into that category of easy to fly is no small achievement.

With the F35B, right now, we have seen pilots with no Harrier background, with no Harrier experience, with no STOVL experience, get in the airplane after their first time and say that was pretty easy to fly in the STOVL mode.

We have lots of visitors here at Eglin and we get a chance to put many of them in the simulators. And one of the things that we do with everybody is we let them do a vertical takeoff, fly around and come back and do a vertical landing, either at the fuel or at the ship.

And the comments from everybody from heads of state, chiefs of staff, or foreign folks, folks with lots of flying experience to folks with next to no flying experience and they come back from the simulator and say well, that was pretty easy to do.

That was what the engineers were hoping would happen, and that’s what a lot of years and a lot of testing and analysis and research was put in place to allow to happen. And I think we’ve actually achieved it.

I think we finally built the STOVL aircraft that we’ve been trying to build for about six decades.

We have an airplane that is comparable to its conventional counterpart that has all of the capabilities that its conventional counterpart has. It doesn’t really sacrifice much in the way of significant capabilities in order to retain its STOVL capability.

And for that STOVL capability, we have an airplane that’s easy to fly, which means we won’t spend a lot of time having to teach people how to fly STOVL. And we won’t spend a lot of time practicing STOVL when we’re out there.

We will spend the majority of our time with this airplane focusing on tactics and missions...."

A long interview best read at the source.

Forum: General F-35 Forum

A Day in the Life of the F-35 Integrated Training Center