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1985
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SIMULATION Swissair re-orders Bestview GENEVA ~~ Swissair has again ordered a Hitachi Bestview visual sys tem, this time to go with the CAE Fokker 100 simulator it ordered late last year. It is the only airline so far to buy Japanese visuals, which it says offer the highest reliability of any system it has studied. Swissair also ordered Best- view for its DC-9-81, Boeing 747-300, and Airbus A310 machines, the latter two being mated to Reflectone simu lators. Chief competitor for the visual system contract was McDonnell Douglas' Vital V or VI. According to Swissair neither had the flexibility of the Hitachi system and was not offered to suit the airline's particular requirements. It says that Hitachi was entirely willing to customise its visuals to Swissair's needs, which included its requirement for an SEL computer instead of the Japanese product. This meant that interface problems with the SEL 97/80 computer simulator would be elimi nated, since a shared memory could be used. The Hitachi system chosen is an improved version of the Hivis-IlA already in use at Swissair's training base. The Hivis IIIA features textured daylight visuals, and displays 6,000 light points on 1,000 scan lines (previously 4,000 points on 875 lines). Four- channel image generation is displayed on six windows in the Swissair system. Swissair will use its Hivis IIIA in dusk/night mode initially, but asked for the full daylight capability to cater for a possible future requirement to train pilots to FAA Phase III standard. It says that Hitachi's system has ex tremely good visual quality owing to the 600Hz refresh rate, which eliminates flicker. Swissair also compliments the manufacturer on the generally high standard of finish of its image generators, and on the "greater than 99 per cent" availability. Its DC-9 machine is in use 20hr per day, it says, and requires the minimum of maintenance. , e , ,„.,";,;—"• , |. t • i i i" MM*** **"*-r-*- •>*;¥*.%*>- -•. -- .**«',. V,-*-J**«~ /J VV Swissair is so far the only airline to have bought Hitachi's Bestview visuals Swissair has worked hard with Hitachi to get the system it wanted, and will not disclose the price it paid the Japanese manufacturer. Hitachi says the contract was worth 600 million yen (£1-81 million), but whether this is for the basic system or for the entire package, is not known. Delivery of the Hitachi equipment to Montreal for integration with the CAE simulator is set for mid-1986. Simuflite success DALLAS ~ Singer-Link subsidiary Simu flite has won unconditional Phase II approval for its BAe 125-700 simulator. It is the company's sixth simulator so approved, allowing total tran sition by a captain from one aircraft to a different, but similar type. "Excellent" year for CAE MONTREAL Simulator business at CAE improved dramatically last year, the company achieving record orders after the market depression of the last two years. Highlight of the year was CAE's largest ever flight simulator order, which came from United Airlines Aircrew Training, selected to provide a complete training system for the Lockheed C-5. CAE was chosen to supply six weapons system trainers and software and computer systems for four cockpit procedures trainers in a deal worth $45 million (£33 million). Another possible teaming arrangement with United will materialise if the pair, along with IBM are chosen, to provide a training system for the US Air Force's Night Hawk search and rescue helicopter. Also during the year CAE sold three full flight simu lators to Fokker and Swissair for two Fokker 100 and one Fokker 50 machines respectively. Alitalia ordered a Boeing 747 simulator, and recently Boeing selected CAE to develop and build a Boeing 737-300 machine. During the year CAE deliv ered a C-130 simulator to the Canadian Air Force, the fifth of seven Tornado machines to West Germany, and the second of two simulators ordered by the Italian Air Force. An MD-80 machine for Flight Safety International and a Boeing 727 simulator for the FAA were also shipped. Image HIT selling well Singer Link-Miles has sold nine simulators equipped quippe with its new textured Image HIT visual system since introduction six months ago. Latest customer is American Airlines, for its third MD-80 simulator. Link- Miles is discussing adding texture to the Image II and Ill-equipped simulators of five customers. First Image HIT into service will be on one of American Airlines' MD-80 machines later this year. 36 FLIGHT International, 20 July 1985
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