FlightSafety International (FSI) is responding to a buoyant business-jet market by building and installing additional full-flight simulators under agreements with aircraft manufacturers to provide customer training.
A Gulfstream IV-SP/EP simulator has been scheduled for "fast-track" delivery within a year. The Level D machine will join three GIV simulators at Savannah, Georgia, and Long Beach, California.
A Bombardier Learjet 45 simulator, installed at FSI's Tucson, Arizona, centre, was to have been ready for training by the end of October, before first aircraft deliveries. A simulator for the Bombardier Challenger 604 will be delivered in January, joining a newly certificated Challenger 601-3A/3R.
FSI is to produce a second simulator for the Dassault Falcon 2000, due to be shipped to the company's Paris Le Bourget training centre by mid-1998. A second Falcon 900EX unit is also on order.
Customer training for Cessna's Citation business jets has been boosted by certification of a second Citation V Ultra simulator at FSI's Wichita, Kansas, centre.
A Citation Bravo simulator and a second Citation X machine will be delivered to Wichita in 1998.
Source: Flight International
