USN E-2/C-2 Reconfigurable Flight Training Device

Customer: Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division (NAWC-TSD)

User: US Navy VAW-120 in Norfolk, VA and VAW 115 in Atsugi Japan

ASI developed two Reconfigurable Flight Training Devices (RFTDs) for the US Navy on a sole source contract due to safety of flight issues with the new NP-2000 system going into the fleet without a viable training device. 

The devices were each reconfigurable between two versions of the E-2C aircraft (with and without CNS-ATM) and two versions of the C-2A aircraft (again, with and without CNS-ATM).  Configuration changes between baselines could be performed in less than 1 minute.  Both devices include an accurate flight model based on the Operational Flight Trainers for each aircraft type.