Lossiemouth Local Takes Boeing Training Services to New Heights

September 5, 2023 - Inspired by his father who served in the Royal Air Force (RAF) for 35 years, Elgin local Harry Allen coordinates training for crews who fly and operate the UK’s nine P-8A Poseidon maritime patrol aircraft at RAF Lossiemouth.

“Aircrew need to go through various conversion and recurrence training before they are cleared for frontline service,” Allen said, a scheduler on the P-8A Poseidon team. “In the UK, Boeing has unmatched expertise designing, developing and delivering military training for both fixed-wing and rotary-wing defence platforms.”

At RAF Lossiemouth, Boeing delivers and supports training for aircrew and maintenance personnel for the UK’s fleet of P-8A aircraft in the Atlantic Building, a £100 million joint investment by Boeing and the Ministry of Defence.

“At any one time within the Atlantic Building, we could be running between four or five concurrent courses that all have different syllabuses, with lessons and equipment to schedule,” Allen explained. “Any change to the course or equipment can have a knock-on effect that needs coordination and rescheduling, which is essentially my role.”

“To see the crews out on a search and rescue or exercise and knowing our team provided the time, equipment and training to practice these events in a simulated environment shows that the tangible efforts we put in here at Lossiemouth make a global impact.”

Allen started his career at Boeing as an administration contractor on the Atlantic Building infrastructure project. Three years on, he has worked across many different roles in support of the maritime patrol aircraft and is now studying a Bachelor of Honors in Cyber Security with Boeing’s Learning Together Program.

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