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Sunday, June 1, 2008
From the Field: Frasca Delivers Bell 206 FTDs to Iraq
Frasca Delivers Bell 206B 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... [read more]
April 1, 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...
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...
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 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...
September 1, 2007
Helicopter Training: From the Factories
Malaysian School Adds To EC120 Trainer Fleet Malaysia’s Integrated Training & Services Sdn Bhd ordered two EC120Bs from Eurocopter at the Paris Air Show in June. One of the leading helicopter training programs in Malaysia and the Southeast Asian...
August 1, 2007
On This Month’s Cover
TRADITIONALLY, WE TELL YOU WHAT we’ve placed on the monthly issue’s cover in a sentence or two on our Table of Contents page. That would have been a challenge this month, since our cover is made up of a selection of 49 covers that have appeared on...
April 19, 2007
Frasca to Construct Flight Training Device for Era Helicopters
Frasca International has received an order to construct an AS350B2 flight training device from Era Helicopters. The simulator will...
April 1, 2007
Coming Events
April 10-13 — Naval Helicopter Assn. Annual Symposium, , Town & Country Resort, San Diego, Calif. Contact: Col. Howard Whitfield (retired), U.S. Marine Corps. (619) 435-7139; E-mail: rotorrev@simplyweb.net; Web: www.navalhelicopterassn.org. April...
April 1, 2007
Safety Update: Winds of Change
HUMAN ERROR. THAT’S THE COMMON EXPLANATION for helicopter accidents. We’ve all heard the statistics. Human error is the cause of 80 percent or more of all accidents. In a way, though, the problem is in the statistic itself. It’s been held as...
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