Tucano AMPA Training Package
Future fast-jet pilots of the Royal Air Force are trained on the Tucano turbo-prop trainer at RAF Linton-on-Ouse in North Yorkshire. Here they encounter for the first time the Advanced Mission Planning Aid (AMPA), which they will use throughout their operational flying career. AMPA allows computer-aided planning of missions, which can then be loaded electronically into the mission systems of the new Hawk TMk2 or operational aircraft. For training on the Tucano, mission maps can be printed, including all necessary navigational and operational data
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AMPA is highly capable but complex. Until Pilotwise produced a computer-based training (CBT) package for AMPA, each new user had been given a four-hour briefing by an AMPA expert before using the system. The training package now allows new users, staff and students, to learn AMPA in their own time. The package guides users through AMPA procedures and options, giving hands-on experience in using AMPA to plan a training mission, including low- and medium-level sectors and target planning.
