Review

Major System / Platform Variant

Original Planned

Current Planned

Achieved /Forecast

Variance (Months)

Notes

System Requirements

ARH System

Mar 02

Feb 03

11

Aircrew Training Devices

Jun 02

Feb 03

8

System Design

ARH System

Jun 02

Feb 03

8

1

ARH System - Delta System Design Review

Mar 03

Apr 03

1

Aircrew Training Devices

Apr 03

Jul 03

3

Preliminary Design

ARH Tiger

Oct 02

May 03

7

2

Aircrew Training Devices

Mar 03

Oct 04

19

Critical Design

ARH Tiger

Mar 03

Jul 04

16

3

Aircrew Training Devices

Sep 03

Jun 05

21

4

Notes

1

Reliance on the certification of the French Tiger variant was critical to the Australian design review and acceptance program. The DMO's ability to leverage from the French program was adversely impacted because the French program had not achieved design approval outcomes in the timeframe expected.

2

As the ARH is a variant of the French and German Tiger helicopters, the ADF Technical Airworthiness Authority planned to utilise the existing certification work undertaken by the French acquisition agency (Direction Générale de l'Armement).

3

The maturity of the ARH design has required ongoing engineering changes to the approved ARH product baseline presented to the Airworthiness Board at the In Service Date. As a result, subsequent flight testing is required to confirm contract compliance and operational acceptance of incorporated design changes to enable removal of Australian Military Type Certificate and Service Release limitations.

4

The Full Flight and Mission Simulator required customisation to both the visual system and the motion systems following contract signature in order to account for capability deficiencies associated with the proposed simulator design. A major cause of the delay in delivering training devices can be attributed to the efficacy with which the software provided from the aircraft manufacturer's test program is being managed to produce a high fidelity simulator.