CAE books new training business

CAE has announced recent business covering civil and military flight and mission simulators, as well as other equipment and services. The company said Bombardier Aerospace, ATR, Vietnam Airlines and a U.S.-based airline have ordered four full-flight simulators (FFSs) worth just over $52.5 million.
Business aircraft manufacturer Bombardier is slated to acquire a CAE 7000 FFS for the Learjet 85 business jet for delivery in |2012. In addition to training, the simulator will support aircraft testing and certification.
Ab initio pilot candidates will train at CAE’s academy in Phoenix, Arizona. The training company’s network of such schools includes 11 flight facilities in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe and North America, with capacity to train 1,800 new airline pilots a year.
India’s Directorate General Civil Aviation and the European Aviation Safety Agency have certificated to level D the Bell 412 full-mission simulator used by the Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (Hatsoff), the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. (HAL) and the CAE joint venture.
The simulator features CAE’s “roll-on/roll-off” design, which enables use of various cockpits, such as those of the Indian army/air force and civil variants of the HAL-built Dhruv and (in future) the Eurocopter Dauphin.
19/07/10 Ian Goold/AIN Online

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Categories: Foreign Jul 2010