Hughes Training's UK arm has won an $8 million contract to supply Denmark's civil-aviation administration with an air-traffic-control (ATC) training system for installation at its Copenhagen Airport academy.
The system will include 34 radar-simulator positions, five aerodrome trainers and an ATC visual tower simulator. The contract marks the first major order for Hughes' new FIRSTplus training system.
The tower simulator will have workstations for two controllers and one assistant, linked to four pseudo-pilot positions. A visual system will project out-of-the-window scenes of Copenhagen Airport on a 270 degrees-wide display.
The academy trains civil and military controllers to handle Danish and Greenland airspace. Academy chief Per Hanson says that use of the new FIRSTplus system will range from part-task training to fully integrated air-traffic- management exercises.
Hughes Training and Lufthansa Technical Training are to pursue technical and customer-service training opportunities with airlines, maintenance organisations, manufacturers and suppliers, focusing on support of Airbus, Boeing, Bombardier and Douglas aircraft.
Source: Flight International
