AgustaWestland, a Finmeccanica company, and the Italian Air Force announced the signing of a letter of intent for joint training.
The announcement was made during the maiden flight of the first HH-101A CAESAR helicopter for the Italian Air Force held at Yeovil plant, UK, today.
The partners intend to co-develop capabilities to meet the future rotary-wing training requirements between the AgustaWestland training organization based at its Frosinone plant, close to Rome, and the Italian Air Force 72nd Wing (72° Stormo).
Bother parties envisage the development of an integrated training solution based on the AW139 light intermediate helicopter model, by which conversion training will be ensured to crews of both the Italian Air Force’s HH-139A/VH139, used for search and rescue and government transport duties, and the HH-101A which will primarily be used for personnel recovery and special forces operations.
AgustaWestland currently has training facilities in Italy, UK, USA and Malaysia, programs are customized to the customer's requirements. With multi-media tools for e-learning, part-task maintenance and procedures trainers through to full mission and flight simulators are utilized.
