Travels restrictions imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic forced engineers to come up with a video conference solution to allow participants at four locations to evaluate the latest build of the U.S. Navy’s C/KC-130T Avionics Obsolescence Upgrade (AOU) software configuration.
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Two GoPro cameras were installed in the cockpit of the C-130T Avionics Obsolescence Upgrade Operational Flight Trainer at NAS Fort Worth Joint Reserve Base and the live video feeds were transmitted to NAVAIR system and test engineers at VX-20 at NAS Patuxent River, Maryland; Lockheed Martin engineers in Oswego, New York; and Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division engineers in North Carolina.
Over the course of two eight-hour days of testing on April 7 and 8, the Tactical Airlift Program Office completed a remote assessment of the software.
The remote assessment was so successful, in fact, that the team intends to use the same method with the next engineering build in early May, incorporating the lessons learned from the April tests.
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