TRIO OFFERS JAA PILOT TRAINING
C90 FLIGHT SIMULATOR FOR TORONTO
FlightSafety Academy is to jointly offer JAA pilot training with Cabair and its affiliate Orlando Flight Training. FlightSafety Academy students in Vero Beach, Florida, working to qualify for a European license, will be able to complete their FAA qualifications there before moving to Orlando Flight Training in Kissimmee, Florida for the JAA ATPL ground school/CPL course, and then to Cabair in the UK to obtain a JAA instrument rating. Phase one of the 13-month, three-phase program, will be conducted at FlightSafety Academy in Vero Beach. It includes completion of the FAA private pilot license, single-engine instrument rating and an hours-build course to achieve 170 hours’ total time. The training will be completed in Piper Warrior Cadet aircraft over six months. Phase two will held at Orlando Flight Training, also over six months, with 750 hours of ground school, the required written examinations, and the start of a JAA commercial pilot flight training program. Students will achieve 10 hours’ CPL singleengine and eight hours’ multi-engine and will take a JAA CPL skills test. Students will travel to Cabair for phase 3, which includes a one-month instrument conversion program with 10 hours of flight simulator training and 10 hours in a multi-engine aircraft.
Toronto Airways bought a full-motion King Air C90 flight simulation device from Fidelity Flight Simulation. The simulator will be type-specific to the King Air C90, and will include aircraft systems and instructor operations customized for Toronto Airways’s training curriculum. It is the second simulation device bought by Toronto Airways from Fidelity Flight Simulation in its program to train Chinese flight students. The airline intends to offer King Air training to other pilots throughout a wide area in Canada and the US. The simulator will be approved by Transport Canada at FTD Level 5. The Fidelity C90 simulator will be reconfigurable between standard instruments and the Bendix King EFIS 40 electronic attitude deviation indicator and horizontal situation indicator. Dual WAAS-enabled Garmin 530 GPS units will be installed, along with a replica Goodrich TCAS 791 traffic collision and avoidance system and Collins WXR 840 weather radar. Electric dynamic control loading will accurately replicate flight control feedback depending on the aerodynamic profile. The external visual display includes a customized Canadian topographical and airport database.
THREE DEALS FOR EMIRATES-CAE Emirates-CAE Flight Training (ECFT) signed contracts with Jet Aviation, MSC Aviation, and Transaero for tailored pilot training at the Dubai centre for Boeing, Gulfstream, and Hawker aircraft platforms. Jet Aviation, a General Dynamics company, renewed its contract for pilot training on its Gulfstream GIV, GV, G550, and Boeing Business Jet aircraft. MSC Aviation, the flight arm of Mediterranean Shipping Company S.A. (Geneva, Switzerland), signed a three-year contract to train pilots of its Hawker 800XPi (Pro Line 21) aircraft. Transaero Airlines signed an extension to its training agreement with ECFT for both wet and dry training of B777 pilots.
EMBRAER PART 147 CERTIFIED Embraer has been certified by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) as a Part 147 maintenance training organization (MTO). Its first customer, KLM Royal Dutch Airlines’s regional subsidiary, KLM Cityhopper began the program last month. The approval covers the four E-Jets of the Embraer 170/190 family – Emb-170, 175, 190 and 195, seating from 70 to 122 pax.
ICELANDAIR EXTENDS TRAINING WITH OAA Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) and Icelandair signed an exclusive five-year agreement for flight simulator training for B757, B767 and Dash 8-100/300 for Air Iceland, an associated company of Icelandair. This agreement extends a 10-year relationship between OAA and Icelandair for flight simulator training in London. Under the new agreement OAA will install a B757 simulator in Copenhagen during 2010, and Icelandair will have access to the existing OAA B767 flight simulator in Stockholm.
FAA AWARDS TRAINER CONTRACT Flightdeck Solutions (FDS) won a multi-project contract from the Federal Aviation Administration’s William J. Hughes Technical Center in Atlantic City, for a complete FDS-A320-FBPT (fixed base procedures trainer). It will be used for research and development and as a secondary device designed to explore new approaches to simulator design. FDS will deliver the A320 FBPT early 2010 and is working with FAA on its research devices, including A320 components and full mock-ups for marketing and development. CAT MAGAZINE • ISSUE 6/2009
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