Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations
| Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations | |
|---|---|
RNSFDO, SFDO | |
  Location within Cornwall | |
| Former names | Royal Naval School of Aircraft Handling |
| General information | |
| Type | Training centre |
| Address | Cornwall, TR12 7RH |
| Coordinates | 50°05′15″N 5°14′56″W / 50.0874°N 5.2489°W |
| Elevation | 80 m (262 ft) |
| Completed | 1959 |
| Inaugurated | 1959 |
| Client | Fleet Air Arm |
| Owner | Royal Navy |
The Royal Naval School of Flight Deck Operations is the Fleet Air Arm's training establishment for aircraft handling.
History[edit]
It was known as the School of Aircraft Handling until November 1995, when the officer unit in Dorset joined. The whole site was at Gosport until 1957, and moved again in November 1959 to Cornwall. It included Naval Air Command Fire School.
The current site officially opened in October 1995.[1]
Training[edit]
The site trains around 1500 sailors per year. Training includes a 15 week course for aircraft handlers (AH) and flight deck officers.
- Air 153, for driving naval fire service (CFR) vehicles
- Air 199, Instruction on the Carriage of Dangerous Goods
- Air 302, flight safety
- NVQ Level 2 in Providing Aviation Operations on the Ground (City and Guilds and EAL)
Structure[edit]
A new Flight Deck Training Simulator was built in November 2015 by Systems Engineering and Assessment (SEA) of Frome, costing £500,000. It has Kinect motion sensing.[2]
Four F-35 models were built in June 2017 by Gateguards Ltd of Cornwall.[3][4]
The site has a 600ft practice flight deck.
See also[edit]
- RAF School of Air Operations Control, now part of the Defence College of Air and Space Operations
- 1700 Naval Air Squadron
- Category:Aircraft carrier fires
References[edit]
- ^ Navy News December 1995, page 18
- ^ Navy News July 2016, page 2
- ^ Navy News April 2017
- ^ Naval Technology