{"id":155441,"date":"2024-04-12T11:05:09","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T15:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=155441"},"modified":"2024-04-11T20:05:18","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T00:05:18","slug":"army-helicopter-pilots-to-receive-more-training-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=155441","title":{"rendered":"Army helicopter pilots to receive more training hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In response to aircraft related accidents, the Army is going to have its helicopter pilots conduct additional hours of training. Six hours of training will be added that focuses on spatial awareness and maintenance issues. Active-duty pilots will complete this training by May 10.<\/p>\n

From Military.com:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Now, the service is adding four to six hours worth of training for pilots that focuses on spatial awareness and maintenance issues, though the service was unclear on what that training means in practice.<\/p>\n

The move comes after Army aircraft have been grounded twice in the past year — including once after a crash last April involving two Black Hawks out of Fort Campbell, Kentucky, that killed nine soldiers in one of the deadliest training incidents in the service’s history.<\/p>\n

The Army National Guard also grounded its aircraft in late February after two of its pilots died in an AH-60 Apache crash in Mississippi. In a prior incident Feb. 12, a National Guard Apache crashed near Salt Lake City, Utah, and both pilots survived.<\/p>\n

Service planners did not announce any significant tweaks to training or maintenance after those groundings.<\/p>\n

In March, two soldiers were injured when their Apache crashed at Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington state during what base officials described as routine training. Then, 48 hours later, two more soldiers were hospitalized when their Apache went down at Fort Carson, Colorado. Two New York Guardsmen died in a UH-72 Lakota in southern Texas while supporting federal border security. A border patrol agent also died.<\/p>\n

“We get into aspects of flight where the crew must reinforce how to revert back to knowing where you are and where your aircraft is with respect to the ground. And so it always bears reinforcing any spatial disorientation training,” Rugen said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Military.com provides additional details<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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