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Tuesday, April 1, 2008
Helicopter Training: New Simulators: Making It Real
Eurocopter is expanding its training capacity in the United States, with a new simulator being readied for service in Grand Prairie, Texas and other training sites being studied.... [read more]
March 1, 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...
March 1, 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...
March 1, 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...
January 1, 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...
December 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...
November 1, 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...
November 1, 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...
November 1, 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...
November 1, 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...
November 1, 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...
November 1, 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...
October 1, 2007
Rotorcraft Report: Hindustan Aeronautics-CAE School For Dhruv, Bell 412 Training Not a Certainty
TRAINING/SIMULATORS Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd. was apparently ready to announce a partnership with CAE to launch a simulator-equipped flight school in Bangalore, India next September 2008. But the...
October 1, 2007
Rotorcraft Report: Frasca to Supply FTDs for Iraqi Pilot Training
TRAINING/SIMULATORS Frasca International will supply Bell Helicopter 206 and UH-1 flight training devices to help the U.S. Army train Iraqi air force pilots. Under a foreign military sales contract with the Army’s simulation, training, and...
October 1, 2007
Rotorcraft Report: Bristow Orders Frasca Simulators for U.K. Training Operations
CIVIL Frasca International has a contract to sell Houston-based Bristow Group two full-flight simulators approved by Europe’s Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA). The units are to simulate the Eurocopter EC225 and the Sikorsky Aircraft S-92. Bristow Group...
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