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09.01.2008		Rotorcraft Report: Era Gets FTD Ticket COMMERCIAL Era Helicopters’ new training center in Lake Charles, La. has obtained Level 6 qualification from the FAA for its EC135 CPDS P2+ flight simulator training device. Built by Frasca International, the EC135 device offers an...
09.01.2008		Rotorcraft Report: Joint Venture to Provide NH90 Sim, Training TRAINING Rotorsim, the consortium owned equally by CAE and AgustaWestland, has signed contracts with the Netherlands defense ministry to provide comprehensive NH90 helicopter training systems and services. The total value of the...
09.01.2008		Training: Safety Watch Pilot Responsibility — Where Has it Gone? Where is the FAA? That’s the question we all ask following an aircraft mishap. But the question that really should be asked is, where is pilot responsibility in general aviation these days? We all rely on...
07.30.2008		Gulf Helicopters Orders AW139 Simulator Gulf Helicopters is purchasing an AW139 simulator from the U.K. vendor cueSim, according to The Gulf Times. The Doha, Qatar newspaper quoted Gulf Helicopters as saying...
07.01.2008		Rotorcraft Report: Bristow-Cobham Joint Venture Wins Aw Training Contract TRAINING FB Heliservices has won a contract from AgustaWestland to provide training services for pilots outside the United Kingdom. The contract in...
06.12.2008		FB Heliservices Wins AW Training Contract FB Heliservices has won a contract from AgustaWestland to provide training services for pilots outside the United Kingdom. The contract in support of AW...
06.01.2008		From the Field: Frasca Delivers Bell 206 FTDs to Iraq   Frasca International has delivered two flight training devices (FTDs) for the Bell Helicopter Model 206B for the U.S. Air Force to use in training Iraqi air force pilots. These FTDs delivered to Kirkuk Air Base, about 145 nm (270 km) north of Baghdad, are...
06.01.2008		From the Factories: Partners Weigh Spot For AW139  Simulator Training service partners AgustaWestland and CAE are debating whether to install their second AW139 simulator at the former’s Philadelphia plant or the latter’s N.J. training center. The companies have installed FAA- and European Joint Aviation...
04.01.2008		Helicopter Training: New Simulators: Making It Real Eurocopter is adding training capabilities in the United States to respond to long-term market needs and shorter-term opportunities. In the latter category, the manufacturer’s American Eurocopter unit in Grand Prairie, Texas is developing a...
03.01.2008		Heli-Expo Show Day: Aerosim Mission Trainers AEROSIMULATORS FOCUSES ON DEVELOPING COST-EFFECTIVE HELICOPter simulators and related systems. At Booth 50 in the static area, the company is displaying its Gimbal Imaging System Trainer (GIST), which simulates a...
03.01.2008		Heli-Expo Show Day: Flight Link Enhances Desktop "Flying" FLIGHT LINK HAS BEEN producing flight controls for PC- and Macintosh-based flight simulation programs like Microsoft Flight Simulator and X-Plane for more than 14 years. The aim of the Chico...
03.01.2008		Heli-Expo Show Day: Frasca Marks 50th Year COULD RUDY FRASCA HAVE IMAGined where the helicopter training market would go in half a century? The Urbana, Ill.-based company comes to Houston marking its 50th anniversary, a milestone it will be celebrating here at Heli-Expo and throughout the coming year...
01.01.2008		Company Profile: Flightsafety International: New Training Center Focuses on Offshore Operations FlightSafety, the world’s foremost aviation training company, delivers another first this year with the projected opening in late 2008 of a new Learning Center devoted principally to training for offshore operations. The center, positioned in Lafayette...
12.11.2007		Era Plans New Training Facility in Louisiana Era Helicopters is setting up a new training facility in Lake Charles, La. The 7,964-sq-ft Era Training Center, set to open by March 31 next...
11.01.2007		Rotorcraft Report: Offshore Industry Moves Away From Hours as Pilot Hiring Benchmark TRAINING The oil and gas industry has decided to abandon flight hours as the prime benchmark for hiring pilots to support its operations. It now wants competency-based flight training that would allow qualified individuals to move into jobs flying multi-pilot...
11.01.2007		Training: Simulation for the Masses IT WAS IN THE 1920S WHEN THE TINY, WOODEN, SINGLE-SEAT LINK trainer became one of the world’s first flight simulators. Its main purpose was to familiarize student pilots with an airplane’s primary flight controls and the results that could be...
11.01.2007		From the Factories: Hindustan Aeronautics, CAE Join Forces To Open Flight School in India Despite CAE’s initial reticence on the matter, the global training and simulation company has agreed with Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. to open a helicopter training center in Bangalore, India. The center is to be equally owned by Hindustan and...
11.01.2007		From the Field: Elbit Unveils New Simulators Elbit Systems has designed full-motion simulators for Mil Mi-8s and Mi-24s that are intended to provide cost-effective, full security, initial and recurrent training based on accurate replication of the actual helicopter and...
11.01.2007		From the Field: FlightSafety to Open Center For Offshore Training in U.S. FlightSafety International is adding a new center dedicated to offshore helicopter training. Training at the new, 70,000-sq-ft Learning Center in Lafayette, La. is to begin in 2008. The facility is designed to accommodate up to eight full flight simulators...
11.01.2007		From the Field: Bristow Contracts For More Simulators Bristow Group, adding to its investment in the global training division it expanded with the purchase earlier this year of Helicopter Adventures, Inc., is purchasing full-flight, state-of-the-art flight...
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