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- So, BAT is a black hawk aircrew trainer.

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The BAT actually enables real pilots

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to get real flight hours,
simulator flight hours,

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to maintain their flight readiness.

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Normally, if you we're
trying to train a pilot,

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you would put them in an aircraft,

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and that's fuel, that's wear and tear

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on the aircraft, and also danger.

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So, some things you don't wanna

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really try in a 20
million dollar helicopter,

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when you can come in here,

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and you can be, make things
second nature to you.

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We also, we want to make sure we're

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current with the field, so there is no

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delay of, okay they updated the aircraft,

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now we have to wait,
we can just go in here,

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pop the thumb drive in, update it,

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and they're ready to train.

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- It's very affective. All right, so you

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can do night vision, instrument training,

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a lot of the pilots, before they have

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to go out and re-certify
on a particular item,

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they come in and they practice on the BAT.

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Also, we have all theses
different terrains

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we go with the BAT, so if you know you're

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gonna have to fly in Afghanistan,

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we can bring up Afghanistan terrain.

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We also have landings,
practice landings on it.

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Ships, so you have the
carriers and frigate

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that they can practice sea operations

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where they can land on those.

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- The cockpit actually comes from,

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for all of the BAT M's comes
from an actual helicopter.

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So, they what they do is they cut the

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actual cockpit off,
they ship it over to us,

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we make any repairs that they
had, that need to happen.

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The seats actually press against you,

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you can feel these
bumps, you can feel those

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all those physical cues that real pilots

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actually need to feel whenever they're,

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they're doing their training.

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What we use is a mylar screen,

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I think it's like 65 degrees up and down,

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and a 160 from left to right.

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Very fragile, but very light.

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If you go to a lot of simulators that

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have the same type of
mirrored, columnated screen,

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they'll be big mirrors, heavy mirrors,

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like yeah hundreds of pounds
and very expensive mirrors.

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This whole mirror, like the mylar sheet,

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much cheaper than a huge,
and it's not as heavy

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as a huge mirror.

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So these things can be
transported quite easily.

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- This device that we're currently in,

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the engineering unit one
became a net device first.

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So this actual simulator's been

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moved around quite a bit.

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I'm also part of the fielding team,

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so we go out and set up the device,

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make sure it's fully operational,

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then we train the pilots,

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and then we turn around and
we train the maintainers.

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- [Neal] So if they wanna move one,

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we would probably send a team up there,

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take it apart, and ship it.

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Which it comes in two halves,

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so it's not really difficult.

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It takes about a day to, take it apart,

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then transport is part of the longest part

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of getting a BAT to where
it's supposed to be.

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But really, our job
here, what the BAT does,

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is keeps a war fighter
ready to go and fight,

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and keeps them safe while we're doing it.