Hawk Advanced Jet Training Family of Systems
BAE Systems' Hawk Advanced Jet Training System (AJTS) is ready now to help the U.S.
Air Force train the winning fighter pilots of tomorrow. Hawk AJTS is the world’s only proven
and cost effective 5th Generation Family of Training Systems.
The Hawk AJTS ensures that all elements of training are integrated and coordinated to
provide the student pilot with a seamless transition from course-to-course,
classroom to flight, and trainer to fighter.
Full Mission Simulator (FMS)
The 360-degree dome FMS provides a high fidelity cockpit interface to execute anything from part task procedures training to virtual insertion into live airborne missions.
Virtual Brief/Debrief
The Hawk AJTS Mission Data Loading and Recording System (MDLRS) regenerates actual mission displays, enabling the instructor to demonstrate better techniques on the ground.
Mission Planning
The Mission Data Loading and Recording System (MDLRS) includes a Mission Support System (MSS) to plan and rehearse future sorties, and the data can be downloaded and used in the aircraft, simulator or other Ground Based Training System (GBTS).
Computer BasedTraining
Computer Based Training (CBT) provides students with 24/7 access to all required records and training information, as well as access to extra training and serious networked gaming. Courseware can be created and updated over the AETC-wide, networked ELA.
Blended Live/Virtual Flight Training via Data Link
During an in-flight training exercise, data linked with Full Mission Simulations heightens the realism for students both on the ground and in the air. This enables training for Net-Centric Operations by cost effectively introducing data prioritization, systems and sensor management, similar to F-22 and F-35 cockpit tasks.
Classroom
Classroom instruction ensures direct student, fellow student and instructor interaction and compliments and enhances lessons learned in the live/virtual environment.
Mobile Devices
The Hawk AJTS ELA enables secure connections to training information and records, including briefing materials and schedules on any asset connected into the main system, including mobile devices.
Sustained G Training
Although sustained post-merge maneuvering is highly unlikelyin a USAF 5th Generation fighter, the Hawk AJTS allows students to perform the majority of cockpit tasks underthe kinds of G-forces that could be generated by 5thGeneration fighters.
Operations Center
From the Operations Center, designated desktop systems and secure mobile devices, the entire training environment can be directed similar to a modern Air Operations Center. Networked C2 apps promote mobile commander awareness through real time global operational pictures, user-defined metrics, and tailored graphic dashboard displays. Global avionics upgrades and software updates ensure continuous improvement in training quality.
System Maintenance and Training
The Hawk AJT has a simple, rugged airframe resistant to high temperatures and hail. Synthetic sensors provide full spectrum combat training without the need for exotic hardware or new maintenance skills. Easy engine and airframe reporting creates intelligent maintenance cycles to improve sortie generation rates, minimize aircraft turn time, and reduce lifecycle maintenance costs. The system is automatically linked to downloaded data files from each aircraft so maintainers can analyze performance.
Flight Training
The Hawk AJTS is a purpose-built trainer, solely designed to teach the relevant skills, techniques and procedures that translate directly to flying 5th generation aircraft. The Hawk’s open-ended synthetic hardware architecture, transparent to the pilot, enables the stepped-introduction of F-35 and F-22 compatible workloads and keeps the sensor suite relevant over time without significant expense. Students thrive in a safe, net-centric environment while managing and prioritizing information in a way typical of today’s flexible mission tasking. Hawk AJTS’ ability to keep air training relevant is unmatched, while eliminating, recurring, expensive hardware reconfigurations and associated maintenance costs.
Live Jet Training Integrated with a High-Fidelity Virtual Environment
Hawk AJTS blends live and virtual training in a synthetic-hardware environment to help pilots develop the sensor management and data prioritization skills required to achieve sophisticated, pre-merge kills and cooperative target destruction of tomorrow’s air dominance strike fighters.
Training Base Concept
Each Hawk AJTS Training Base is a fully integrated system of live and virtual training tools linked through an AETC-wide Enterprise Learning Architecture (ELA). The interconnectedness of the Hawk AJTS training base concept achieves improved economies of scale by increasing the pool of schedulable resources, promotes consistency in training, and allows for standardization of avionics upgrades and new software applications across remote locations.
Enterprise Learning Architecture (ELA) — Net-Centric by Design
The Hawk AJTS ELA integrates and links all aspects of training for instructors and student pilots throughout the synthetic ground and air training system and across locations. When software and curriculum updates are required, all elements of the system, including the trainer aircraft avionics, can be simultaneously updated from a single point. Commanders benefit from real time, tailored metrics, accessible enterprise-wide through mobile device enabled graphics and custom dashboard displays.
