Skip to main content

Raf Fighter Controllers (Training)

Volume 132: debated on Friday 29 April 1988

The text on this page has been created from Hansard archive content, it may contain typographical errors.

To ask the Secretary of State for Defence how many simulators have been installed at United Kingdom air defence ground environment radar stations to provide interception control training for RAF fighter controllers; when each one was installed; and what plans exist to install further such simulators.

Four simulators have been installed at United Kingdom air defence ground environment operational units to provide interception control training for RAF fighter controllers. They were installed between 1974 and 1980.The improved UKADGE is being equipped with a modern centralised interception control simulation facility, to which all RAF interceptor controllers will have access, in order to maintain operational standards.