The United Kingdom Ministry of Defence (MOD) has awarded a contract amendment to CAE to upgrade two of the CH-47 Chinook dynamic mission simulators at CAE’s Medium Support Helicopter Aircrew Training Facility (MSHATF) at RAF Benson. CAE will install the digital automatic flying control system (DAFCS) in each of the simulators to ensure concurrency with the RAF’s CH-47 Chinook Mk6a helicopter. The upgrade of the first Chinook simulator will be complete by the last quarter of 2016 with the second simulator upgraded by mid-2017.