1st Project Hellcat graduates

The first class of eight student naval aviators (SNA) completed Naval Aviation Training Next (NATN) - Project Hellcat at Training Air Wing 4 at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi, Texas, on Feb. 14. Project Hellcat is Chief of Naval Air Training’s intermediate flight training syllabus for students selected for the tactical jet pipeline. Traditionally, the pipeline only included a primary and advanced phase, but Project Hellcat introduces an intermediate phase to teach more foundational principles before the advanced phase. The class included students who completed Project Avenger, the most recent update to CNATRA’s primary flight training syllabus. Project Hellcat seeks to develop a more capable, self-sufficient tactical jet aviator, proficient in a dynamic and fluid environment to better prepare them for advanced training. “Project Hellcat continues the innovation of Naval aviation’s undergraduate flight training,” said CNATRA Rear Adm. Robert Westendorff. The CNATRA team developed, refined and implemented the program to teach foundational tactical flight concepts that leads to producing more competent strike-fighter pilots" prior to going to the next phase of training. CNATRA is currently testing Project Hellcat as a T-6B Texan II flight training syllabus before tactical jet students step into the T-45C Goshawk, the aircraft used in advanced training. The graduating class will continue to NATN’s advanced flight training syllabus called Project Corsair, an updated advanced strike T-45C Goshawk syllabus, with classes set to begin at TW-1 at NAS Meridian, Miss., on March 1w, and TW-2 at NAS Kingsville, Texas, Aon April 4. Project Hellcat is named after the Grumman F6F Hellcat, a U.S. Navy carrier-based fighter plane during WWII. (Source: CNATRA 02/23/22) DVIDS - News - Naval Aviation Training Next – Project Hellcat graduates first class of student aviators (dvidshub.net)