Undergraduate RPA Training (URT) Ground Based Training System (GBTS

T25 SECT Instructor Station

The T25 SECT applications use a building-block approach to introducing complex electronic warfare concepts by allowing students to visualize and interact with electromagnetic threat indications within realistic integrated mission scenarios.

Program Manager: Dustin Serres dustin.serres@us.af.mil

Undergraduate Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training Instrument Simulator (URTIS)

Air Education and Training Command (AETC) utilizes the URT GBTS to train new RPA pilots in the URT pipeline. URT GBTS consists of the Undergraduate Remotely Piloted Aircraft Training Instrument Simulator (URTIS) and the Predator Reaper Integrated Mission Environment Desktop Training Simulator (PRIME DTS) Aircrew Training Devices.

The URTIS is used to train new RPA pilots in contact flying and instrument flying procedures and qualifies the RPA pilots to operate in National and International airspace. The device is a non-motion, cockpit trainer, based on the T-6 airframe, used to conduct instrument, communication and national airspace training. The system was developed by HQ AETC for RPA pilot trainees to utilize in their second phase of training to prepare for the final phase - RPA Pilot Remote Fundamentals Course. The system is a standalone network and does not interface/ interconnect with any systems outside of its own architecture. There are 16 URTIS devices at Randolph AFB, TX.

PRIME DTS is a desktop training system simulating the concepts, techniques, and procedures applicable to RPA operations. PRIME Desktop Training Simulator (DTS) is a desktop version of a MQ-9 Reaper based simulation that has been developed by Headquarters AETC for use in URT to train RPA pilots (officers) and sensor operators (enlisted). Both the RPA Pilot Remote Fundamentals Course and the Basic Sensor Operator Course utilize the PRIME DTS to prepare the students for their next training courses at the various RPA Formal Training Units. There are 182 PRIME desktops at Randolph AFB, TX.

The program is managed organically by the 555th SWEG at Tinker ALC. Recently, 19AF/CC gave approval to replace PRIME with a government owned