FlightSafety Boeing Training International is to establish a $100 million Latin American training hub in Miami, Florida. This follows the August announcement by the Boeing/ FlightSafety joint venture of plans to build an $85 million European training hub in London.
The new Miami centre is scheduled to open in the first quarter of 2000 with up to 18 full-flight simulators, and will be expandable to house 24 simulators, says Flight-Safety Boeing president Wake Smith. The centre will be financed by a $123 million industrial development bond issue.
FlightSafety's existing airline training centre in Miami will be closed and at least six of its nine simulators transferred to the new location. The new centre will perform maintenance as well as pilot training. Smith expects some 7,000 pilots and 3,000 technicians to be trained annually.
Source: Flight International
