Originally Posted by
OFBSLF
Only DOD would suggest that you can save money training helicopter pilots by replacing a light, single-engine helicopter with a complex, medium, two-engine helicopter.
If your simlulator is good enough, you can get a lot of training value and maybe (I said MAYBE) reduce some hours per student in the cockpit.
Of course, that kind of sim is bloody expensive, and ups your program cost ... but not the airframe operating costs.
As usual, I suspect DoD is playing a shell game with how money is counted agianst what ... an old game
played since long before I ever got involved in such things.