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Originally Posted by FloaterNorthWest

A simulator at a joint venture between Airbus, Thales and DCI that is available for dry lease isn’t equivalent to what Boeing provide for Apache and Chinook training or what they provide for the Australian Military Training. That's fully understood, but please don't forget why/how BDUK was 'awarded' the latest Apache training contract. The company doing the previous training had been well received.

What is so woeful about the EASA approved Level D FFS? - lag, inertia, visuals, reliability - approached head of Airbus ops/trg at the time - she told me that as it had already paid for itself, to spend money on any upgrades would be a difficult proposition to put to shareholders. I note that Thales didn't make the same mistake again and sub-contract INDRA to provide the H160 sim...

Who was going to provide AceHawk’s training solution?

You'd have to ask the guys at Team ML70 but it's not rocket science - current and experienced users 'on type', standard 'train the trainer' plus harnessing the many crews with exchange tour experience - not an option for either the Italian or French-owned NMH option. Imagine the expedience, simplicity and efficiencies present when able to embed air and ground crews with friendly Black Hawk operators on contract signature. Several 3rd-party training providers spring to mind, in addition to BDUK, with both Ascent and CAE having made serious approaches. I understand the Team ML70 set-up preferred to keep it simple, remembering of course that it has all been done before ;-)