Mi-171 simulator for Ulan-Ude

Russia’s Ulan-Ude Aviation Plant (UUAZ) put a Mil Mi-171 full-flight simulator into operation early this year. The manufacturer says it bought the equipment because of the booming Mi-171 sales and the resultant requirement for additional flight and ground crew training capabilities. The simulator will help the Mi-171 operators based in Russia’s Siberia and the Far East cut their crew recurrent training costs. The first group of students, from China, have already been through it and highly praised the realistic feel of the simulation and the competence of the instructors.

The simulator is based on an actual Mi-171 cockpit. It offers realistic operation of all on-board systems throughout the operational envelope, in good and bad weather, and can generate malfunctions, erroneous crew inputs and other emergency situations. The programmable scenarios are based on the Mi-171 behaviour data obtained in the course of the flight test program.

The Mi-171 simulator was developed and built by CSTS Dinamika, which has prior experience building simulation devices of varying complexity for the Mil Mi-8MTV, Mi-8 (MTV-5), Mi-17-1V, Mi-171, Mi-24P, Mi-24PN, Mi-35M and Mi-28N helicopters operated by government services and commercial companies. In the fall of 2010 Dinamika signed an agreement with UUAZ parent company Russian Helicopters to cooperate in the marketing, development, and production of technical training aids for operators of Russian-made rotorcraft.