The JPO is basically stating the faulty F-35 business plan makes the aircraft too expensive to fly. AND, currently, the sim is the only way you can "fly" the aircraft to its limits. Understand that the aircraft is under flight envelop restrictions due to a number of design faults.
So far, the training programs have produced 140 pilots and 1,500 maintainers, she noted. More than 70 percent of pilot training can be done in Lockheed’s full-motion simulators, she said. That’s compared to the 40 percent of pilot training carried out on legacy aircraft simulators.
Simulated training with the F-35 is critical, Bogdan said. First, it offers the military a more affordable way to train both pilots and maintainers while reducing lifecycle costs. Affordability is a major issue when it comes to managing a program that has been dubbed the “trillion dollar program,” he said.
“We work every single day to get that number off our backs and to reduce the lifecycle costs on this program. Training is a very important area in which we are focusing on trying to do that,” he said.
A big challenge to maintaining affordability is how to service a number of customers with “varying levels of training and readiness while at the same time achieving commonality and economies of scale to reduce our overall costs,” Bogdan said.
Simulated training is also the only way that the F-35 can be tested to its limit, he said.
“Certain mission scenarios today can only be exercised in a synthetic environment,” he said. “Our current training range infrastructure doesn’t posses the threat systems capable of truly stressing the aircraft and the pilot.”
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-Time's Battleland - 5 Part series on F-35 procurement - 2013
-Summary of Air Power Australia F-35 points
-Bill Sweetman, Aviation Week and the F-35
-U.S. Government Accounting Office (GAO) F-35 reports
-F-35 JSF: Cold War Anachronism Without a Mission
-History of F-35 Production Cuts
-Looking at the three Japan contenders (maneuverability)
-How the Canadian DND misleads the public about the F-35
-Value of STOVL F-35B over-hyped
-Cuckoo in the nest--U.S. DOD DOT&E F-35 report is out
-6 Feb 2012 Letter from SASC to DOD boss Panetta questioning the decision to lift probation on the F-35B STOVL.
-USAFs F-35 procurement plan is not believable
-December 2011 Australia/Canada Brief
-F-35 Key Performance Perimeters (KPP) and Feb 2012 CRS report
-F-35 DOD Select Acquisition Report (SAR) FY2012
-Release of F-35 2012 test report card shows continued waste on a dud program
-Australian Defence answers serious F-35 project concerns with "so what?"
-Land of the Lost (production cut history update March 2013)
-Outgoing LM F-35 program boss admits to flawed weight assumptions (March 2013)
-A look at the F-35 program's astro-turfing
-F-35 and F-16 cost per flying hour
-Is this aircraft worth over $51B of USMC tac-air funding?
-Combat radius and altitude, A model
-F-35A, noise abatement and airfields and the USAF
-Deceptive marketing practice: F-35 blocks
-The concurrency fraud
-The dung beetle's "it's known" lie
-F-35's air-to-air ability limited
-F-35 Blocks--2006 and today
-The F-35B design is leaking fuel
-F-35 deliveries
-ADF's wacky F-35 assumptions
-Gauging performance, the 2008 F-35, Davis dream brief
-Aboriginal brought out as a prop
-Super Kendall's F-35 problem
-LM sales force in pre-Internet era
-History of F-35 engine problems
-Compare
-JSF hopes and dreams...early days of the Ponzi Scheme
-The Prognostics
-2002--Australia joins the F-35 program
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