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Project Avenger graduates first USN students

7th April 2021 - 16:30 GMT | by Trevor Nash in Holsworthy

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An instructor oversees two students using the Project Avenger low-cost flight training device. (Photo: USN/Lt Michelle Tucker))

The USN has graduated its first class of primary pilot students through its Project Avenger initiative and the process is expected to be adopted by another Training Air Wing in the near future.

On 1 April, the first class of 19 student US naval aviators completed the inaugural Naval Aviation Training Next - Project Avenger course at Training Air Wing 4, NAS Corpus Christi in Texas.

Project Avenger is a prototype primary flight training syllabus that has been designed to develop a more capable pilot who can be trained quicker.

‘Project Avenger is revolutionising Naval Aviation undergraduate primary flight training,’ Chief of Naval Air Training RADM Robert Westendorff explained. ‘Our innovative team developed, refined, and implemented the programme and this first class of primary completers is a testament to the entire team’s hard

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