Scandinavian airline System (SAS) has ordered two full-flight simulators from Canadian manufacturer CAE Electronics, which has also gained other new business from Japan Airlines (JAL) and the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF).
CAE will deliver a Boeing 737-700 simulator, convertible to -600 and -800 configurations, to the SAS Flight Academy in the third quarter of 1997 and a Bell 412/212 helicopter simulator to the training centre at Stockholm's Arlanda Airport by the end of that year.
Both devices will be equipped with CAE MaxVue visuals: a three-channel system on the 737-700 and an eight-channel system on the 412/212. In August, SAS ordered a de Havilland Dash 8 simulator, also with MaxVue, from CAE. JAL has ordered a Boeing 767-300 maintenance-training simulator from CAE. The company says that the device will include a classroom projection-system which will enable between eight and 12 people to be trained simultaneously.
CAE has previously sold ten simulators to JAL and its subsidiary Japan TransOcean Air - but, in September, the airline ordered a 767-300 full-flight simulator from Thomson Training & Simulation, its first purchase from CAE's rival for several years.
CAE has also won a A$38 million ($30 million) contract to produce Boeing 707 and Lockheed Martin C-130J flight simulators for the RAAF. CAE teamed with Qantas to bid for the contract.
Source: Flight International