Question to the Ministry of Defence:
To ask the Secretary of State for Defence, what the existing MoD or private sites with helicopter simulation facilities are; which services use such sites; and what the annual operating cost of each such site is.
A list of those Ministry of Defence establishments at which helicopter flight simulators are based is provided below. For the purposes of this answer, I have interpreted helicopter simulation facilities to mean only full-motion flight simulators.
In addition to helicopter simulation, each establishment undertakes a range of defence activities and the full annual operating cost of each establishment could be provided only at disproportionate cost.
Name of Establishment | Service |
RAF Benson | Tri-Service |
MOD Boscombe Down1 | Empire Test Pilots School |
RNAS Culdrose | Royal Navy |
Army Aviation Centre - Middle Wallop | Army |
RAF Shawbury | Tri-Service |
RAF Valley | Royal Air Force |
RNAS Yeovilton | Royal Navy and Army |
Wattisham | Army |
1 - A generic flight simulator that can be configured to represent a helicopter.