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FlightSafety International (FSI) has been selected by Boeing to supply the first flight-simulator for the 717-200 airliner, formerly the McDonnell Douglas MD-95. The simulator will be installed initially at the Flight-Safety Boeing Training International centre adjacent to Boeing's Douglas Products division plant at Long Beach, California, where the 717 is being produced.
The simulator will be built to US Federal Aviation Administration Level D zero-flight-time training standards and equipped with an FSI Vital visual system, including ChromaView image generator and MultiView panoramic display.
FSI, meanwhile, has won Level D approval for its first Embraer RJ145 simulator. It has entered training service at FSI's Simulation Systems division in Tulsa, Oklahoma, where it was built, pending certification of a second RJ145 simulator recently installed at the Houston, Texas, training centre.
Following Level D approval of the Houston simulator, which will be used by Continental Express, the Tulsa-based device will be relocated "-to a site that will maximise convenience to operators", says FSI. The company is the official training organisation for the RJ145.
FSI has begun construction of its fourth full-flight simulator for the Raytheon Beech 1900D regional turboprop, for delivery to a company training centre in the fourth quarter of 1998.
FSI's fifth flight-simulator for the Saab 340 regional turboprop - its first simulator to be based in Australia - has received Level 4 training approval from the Australian Civil Aviation Authority.
Source: Flight International
