FlightSafety International has added to its simulator line up at its London Farnborough facility.
A second Hawker 750 simulator featuring full electric motion and control loading technology is expected to enter service in the third quarter of 2008. Additionally, it will offer Level D Gulfstream G450 and G550 training on an interchangeable simulator. It is expected that the G450/G550 simulator will be entering service in the fourth quarter of 2009.
“This investment and expansion of the London Farnborough Training Centre further demonstrates our commitment to supporting Gulfstream, Hawker Beechcraft and our customers,” says Bruce Whitman, president and executive Flight Safety.
It is also using EBACE to demonstrate how it looks after trainees, by displaying and explaining “a training cycle”.
Rudy Toering, managing director Europe Middle East and Africa business development, believes the key to Flight Safety’s success is the underlying principle of being welcoming and friendly and its Matrix training system. “Matrix is truly a vertical training system.”
Students start in the classrooms with desktop simulators to learn the theory, then move to graphic flightdeck simulators) that reproduce a flightdeck to its exact proportions with touch-screen interactivity. This is followed by progression on to the Level D simulators.
“A simulator lets the student go much further in terms of how not to operate an aircraft, and really see the effects thereby understanding and learning. It is all scenario-based training on real life situations,” Toering says.
“We are expanding our programmes at both Farnborough and Le Bourget,” he adds. “We will be adding the Sikorsky S-92 simulator by the end of the year and are upgrading our simulators to use electric motion instead of hydraulics.
“Our Hawker 800XP [Honeywell avionics] simulator is up and running and our 800XP [Rockwell Collins Pro Line 21] will be ready in July this year,” says Toering.
Source: Flight Daily News
