{"id":85777,"date":"2024-08-26T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-08-26T23:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/uncategorized\/2024\/08\/26\/us-army-takes-new-look-at-training-aviators-with-decisions-coming-soon\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T01:12:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T01:12:16","slug":"us-army-takes-new-look-at-training-aviators-with-decisions-coming-soon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/navytimes\/news\/your-navy\/2024\/08\/26\/us-army-takes-new-look-at-training-aviators-with-decisions-coming-soon\/","title":{"rendered":"US Army takes new look at training aviators with decisions coming soon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The U.S. Army is taking a deep dive into a new<a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/training-sim\/2024\/04\/23\/us-army-faces-uphill-battle-to-fix-aviation-mishap-crisis\/\" target=\"_blank\"> institutional training model for aviators<\/a> as its helicopter fleet evolves into a complex network of manned and unmanned platforms, the service\u2019s former Aviation Center of Excellence commander told Defense News in a recent interview.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cArmy aviation is not cheap; it costs a lot of money to train aviators, so from a cost perspective, from a fundamentals of flight perspective and then that all being influenced by bringing in a future aircraft with a tiltrotor, we\u2019re doing a lot of analysis right now on what is the optimal way forward,\u201d Maj. Gen. Mac McCurry, who is now the Army Futures Command chief of staff, said in an interview just prior to the change of command at Fort Novosel, Alabama, last month.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army selected Textron Bell\u2019s next-generation tiltrotor design for its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/industry\/2022\/12\/05\/us-army-makes-largest-helicopter-award-in-40-years\/\" target=\"_blank\">Future Long-Range Assault Aircraft, or FLRAA, <\/a>in December 2022. Earlier this year, the service decided to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/air\/2024\/02\/08\/us-army-spent-billions-on-a-new-helicopter-that-now-will-never-fly\/\" target=\"_blank\">cancel the development competition of another manned helicopter for attack and reconnaissance missions<\/a> in favor of using more unmanned aircraft for the role.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI think that there will be some decisions made within the next year primarily centered on the branch chief down here and having to look at what is the institutional training model before we get into the operational force,\u201d McCurry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">One consideration is whether the service has the right basic training aircraft. The Army retired its Bell-manufactured TH-67 single-engine training helicopter following a decision to restructure its aviation fleet in late 2013. The service replaced the trainer with roughly 200 dual-engine LUH-72A Lakota light utility helicopters, a move <a href=\"https:\/\/www.defensenews.com\/land\/2018\/01\/24\/army-wins-appeal-in-leonardo-lawsuit-holding-lakota-buys-hostage\/\" target=\"_blank\">met with some controversy <\/a>over the aircraft\u2019s operational cost and complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cNothing has been excluded. Everything is on the table as far as what kind of aircraft does that look like and what does the training look like,\u201d McCurry said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Additionally, with the improvement of simulation technology, the aviation training curriculum relies more on simulator hours than ever before. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWith the increase in virtual reality, augmented reality, where can we gain efficiencies in training with that kind of thing where you don\u2019t have to be in either an aircraft or full motion simulator? What parts of flight training can really be assisted and optimized using those technologies?\u201d McCurry questioned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The pressure to get basic aviator skills training right is high as the Army aviation branch <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2023\/06\/08\/youre-always-fighting-gravity-the-state-of-army-aviation\/\" target=\"_blank\">continues to experience frequent Class A mishaps<\/a>, which the service defines as incidents involving the loss of life or loss of equipment totaling more than $2.5 million.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this month, an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2024\/08\/08\/one-killed-another-injured-in-apache-helicopter-crash-in-alabama\/\" target=\"_blank\">AH-64 Apache helicopter crashed<\/a> during a routine flight training on Fort Novosel, killing the flight instructor and injuring the student. The circumstances of the crash are still under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In the first half of fiscal 2023, more than a dozen Army aviators died in helicopter crashes, a startling number that prompted an aviation-wide stand-down in April 2023. The Army lifted the stand-down after a thorough review, but five months later, an MH-60 Black Hawk stealth helicopter belonging to the 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment crashed during a training mission, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2023\/11\/13\/pentagon-ids-army-special-operations-aviation-soldiers-killed-in-crash\/\" target=\"_blank\">killing five on board.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The accidents kept coming, with fiscal 2023 logging the highest death rate for Army soldiers since the U.S. withdrew from Iraq in 2011, with a total of 14 dead across 10 Class A mishaps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an average year, Army aviation mishaps typically kill six crew members, with the average Class A mishap rate hovering just under one accident per 100,000 flight hours. The current rate as of this spring was 3.22, more than double the highest rate of any fiscal year in more than a decade, according to Army Combat Readiness Center data.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The branch is \u201cconstantly keeping our finger on the pulse of accident rates and causal factors,\u201d McCurry said. \u201cWe have definitely taken a look over the last two years at specifically formation flying, flying aircraft in close proximity to each other and evaluating those tasks and adding some conditions upon those tasks and then, most recently, focusing on how our aviators respond to changes in tail rotor effectiveness based on environmental conditions.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Earlier this year, the Army unveiled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.armytimes.com\/news\/your-army\/2024\/04\/10\/army-pushes-more-safety-training-as-helicopter-crashes-spike\/\" target=\"_blank\">more training enhancement efforts <\/a>to get back to the basics that it 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