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CPAT B737-400 TRAINING FOR VISION CPaT has sold its B737-400 aircraft systems CBT/WBT program to Vision Airlines. The program can be integrated into Vision Airlines’s established training programs. This development gives the airline the flexibility to train anytime, anywhere on standard PC technology, as the CBT is available on USB (Flash Drive) or via the Web.
STATA AND TIGER TRAINING TOGETHER ST Aerospace’s commercial pilot training academy, ST Aviation Training Academy (STATA), partnered with Tiger Airways to train the airline’s pilots on its fleet of Airbus A320, under STATA’s multi-crew pilot licence (MPL) curriculum. The MPL program is the first in Singapore and was due to begin in October with six cadet pilots. The student pilots will complete ground school in Singapore and flight training in Ballarat, Australia, before flight training in a multi-crew environment in Singapore. STATA and major industry players as stakeholders, including national aviation authorities, educational institutions, simulation experts and other aviation professionals, will evaluate and validate the program when it is completed.
dier Global Express FFS will be installed in the first half of 2010. A Cessna Citation CJ3 FFS recently received US FAA certification at CAE’s North East Training Centre (NETC) in Morristown, New Jersey. All of these devices leverage the latest capabilities of CAE’s 5000 series simulator design - CAE Tropos-6000 image generator, and CAE True electric motion system.
AIRBUS FREIGHTERS FOR MNG Turkish all-cargo operator MNG Airlines ordered two A330-200Fs to support its expanding cargo operations. These aircraft are in addition to the two orders it placed in 2007. cat
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CAE is adding eight business aircraft FFSs at its pilot and maintenance training centers in Dallas, New York, London, and Dubai. They are expected to be ready for training in the next few months. Training for the Embraer Phenom 300 is planned to be in place at CAE SimuFlite in Dallas, Texas and CAE’s Burgess Hill UK training centre near London in coordination with deliveries of the new aircraft during 2010, as part of the Embraer CAE Training Services (ECTS) joint venture. Bombardier Learjet 45/45XR and Cessna Citation II simulators will be ready for training at Burgess Hill early 2010. Also early next year, a new Dassault Falcon 50EX FFS will be installed in Dallas, the world’s largest business aviation training facility. In Dubai at EmiratesCAE Flight Training (ECFT), a Hawker 800 XPi FFS is currently going through certification evaluation, and a Bombar-
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20-23 February 2010 HELI-Expo 2010 Houston, TX www.heliexpo.com 1-4 March 2010 Next Generation of Aviation Professionals Symposium Montreal, Canada www.icao.int/ngap 9-10 June 2010 Spring 2010 Flight Simulation Group Conference. Flight Simulation Technology: Future Potential RAeS, London, UK www.raes.org.uk
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