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TECHNICAL: SIMULATION FiightSafety to install new Boeing simulators BY GRAHAM WARWICK FiightSafety International is to install three new Boeing air liner simulators in its Seattle learning centre during 1990. The centre was established in 1989 by relocating and updating an existing 737-300 simulator, which was joined in April by a 757-200 machine bought from Singapore Airlines. The three new simulators being built at FlightSafety's Simulation Systems division are for the 737-300EFIS, 757-200 and 767-300ER. Phase II training approval is planned for all three machines and has already been granted to the 737 and 757 simu lators at Seattle. Boeing itself is among cus tomers for the Seattle simulators and for FlightSafety's Phase II 737-300 machines at Houston, Long Beach and Salt Lake City. The company also operates 727 simulators at Louisville and St Louis. Training for major and regional airlines increased in 1989 to account for about 20% of FlightSafety's record $231 mil lion revenues: ten of the USA's 11 major airlines use the com pany's simulators and eight out of ten US nationals. This percentage is expected to increase as FlightSafety's $200 million programme to build and operate Phase II simulators for all the popular regional airliners gathers pace. • Three new Boeing simulators are being built for installation at Seattle CAA adopts on-site controller training Air traffic control (ATC) simu- xVlators developed in-house by the UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) have been installed at nine airports to allow on-site controller training. The SAAST 2000 stand-alone ATC skills trainer was designed by the CAA's own Air Traffic Control Evaluation Unit at Hum, near Bournemouth, using equip ment supplied by Commodore, High Tension and Forefront Technology. Simulators are now in use at Manchester, Bir mingham, Stansted, Glasgow, Prestwick, Belfast, Cardiff, Aber deen and Edinburgh airports. The trainer has been devel oped to meet the CAA's need to streamline controller training to meet demand. Cadet recruitment has increased from 80 in 1988 to 200 this year with a target of 240 a year from 1991 onwards, says the CAA. Reacting to industry criticism for inviting bids to supply an ATC simulator then developing its own system, the Authority says: "The use of high-perfor mance minicomputers has pro vided a cost-effective and user-friendly system". • ASD INTRODUCES CITATION 11 SIMULATOR The first full flight simulator built by Advanced Simulator Development is scheduled to be delivered later this year. The Cessna Citation 11 simulator, being built to FAA Phase II standards, uses a McDonnell Douglas Vital IV visual system, a McFadden six-axis motion system and hydraulic flight control loading system. RAF wants more computer training The Royal Air Force (RAF) has launched a drive to in crease its use of modern com puter-based training (CBT) with the issue of a requirement for systems with which to train C-130 Hercules and E-3 Sentry aircrew and groundcrew. The contract will be for two CBT systems, each comprising courseware and hardware, for delivery over 18 months to the E-3D Training Flight and Maintenance School at RAF Waddington and the C-130 Op erational Conversion Unit at RAF Lyneham. The airborne early warning Sentry require ment is for 23 workstations, plus 14 for the Hercules transport. Bidders will be allowed to configure commercially available hardware to meet the require ment and use commercial soft ware to develop the courseware for classroom instruction on in dividual workstations and large- or multi-screen displays. A request for tenders (to be submitted by mid-August) has been issued to a wide range of companies from established simulator manufacturers to com puter suppliers and specialists in computer-based training. • Wicat spreads CBT contracts Wicat Systems has an nounced computer-based training (CBT) contracts for pro grammes as diverse as Swissair ab initio flying training and US Air Force C-141 aircrew training. Largest of the contracts, exceeding $1.4 million, is with Hughes Training Systems, to design and develop CBT courseware and hardware for the contractor-run C-141B airlifter aircrew training system. Douglas Aircraft, meanwhile, has awarded Wicat an $800,000 contract to develop an MD-11 centralised fault display system part-task trainer to instruct maintenance technicians on the identification and isolation of faults monitored by the system. Wicat will supply courseware and 25 part-task trainers to Douglas. Boeing has selected Wicat hardware to run 767-300 flight training courseware developed jointly by the two companies. In another joint programme, Wicat and Swissair are develop ing 150h CBT courseware for ab initio pilot training. The first 60h, leading up to a private pilot's licence, will be released within a year. • FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 16-22 May 1990
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