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TECHNICAL: S IMULATION AND TRAINING Korean 747-400 wins Phase III Korean Air's Boeing 747-400 flight simulator has com pleted factory acceptance tests and is the first to be approved to US Federal Aviation Administra tion Phase 111 training standards, says Canadian manufacturer CAE Electronics. Certification was carried out by Canada's Ministry of Trans port and the simulator will be installed in Korean's Incheon training centre later this year. The simulator features CAE's new forward-facing dual- touchscreen instructor station. CAE has sold 13 747-400 flight simulators so far, includ ing three to All Nippon, two each to KLM and Lufthansa and single machines to China Air lines, Korean, Northwest, Qan- tas, Singapore and United. • Korean's CAE-built 747-400 simulator sets new standards Seattle: new seat of regional learning FlightSafety International has announced plans to establish its Seattle Learning Center as a base for regional airline training. This year the centre will receive Phase II flight simulators for the Boeing Canada Dash 8, British Aerospace Jetstream 31 and Em- braer EMB-120 Brasilia regional airliners. Located at Seattle's Seatac Air port, the centre serves Boeing operators and by the end of the year will house five Phase II simulators for Boeing airliners. The new regional airliner simula tors are being built at FlightSafety's Simulation Sys tems division. The training company, mean while, has won a three-year US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) contract to provide Dash 8 pilot training using a Phase II flight simulator at FlightSafety's Toronto Learning Center. Over the border at Wichita, at the Citation Learning Center, the first simulator for the latest version of Cessna's popular busi ness jet, the Citation V, has won FAA Phase II approval. There are now five Phase 11 machines at the Center, including two Citation Ills and one each for the Citation II and S/II. • SimuFlite wins FAA exemption Simulator instructors and check airmen at SimuFlite Training International have won US Federal Aviation Administra tion (FAA) approval to train regional-airliner pilots, based ex clusively on their qualifications as training-centre personnel. Until now SimuFlite instruc tors have had to be trained by Part 135 (regional) operators and approved by their FAA flight standards office. The exemption — claimed to be the first of its kind — will enable more region- als to use SimuFlite's training programmes. • Quintron selects Harris Harris Night-Hawk comput ers have been selected by Quintron for use in 11 simula tors to be supplied to the US Air Force as part of the McDonnell Douglas/Beech Tanker Transport Training System (TTTS). Quintron is the TTTS team- member responsible for develop ing simulators to accompany the planned 211 T-lAJayhawk train ing aircraft, based on the Beech- jet 400A twin-turbofan business aircraft. Prime contractor McDonnell Douglas Training Systems was awarded an initial $8.8 million contract in February to supply a single aircraft, with options for further aircraft and training de vices potentially worth more than $1 billion. Harris Computer Systems, meanwhile, has announced other simulation applications for its Night-Hawk family, including a contract for more than 20 Night-Hawk 1200 computers for use in US Air Force navigation training simulators. General Dynamics has se lected the Night-Hawk 3800 computer for its Tomahawk cruise-missile integration and simulation test unit, while Pratt & Whitney has bought nine 3800s to monitor engine tests runs. D CAE provides P-3C training CAE-Link is to supply simulators for the Lockheed P-3C Update IV anti-submarine patrol aircraft under a US Navy- contract potentially worth more than $100 million. The initial $42 million con tract is for a weapon systems trainer (WST) and an integrated avionics trainer (IAT) to be delivered to NAS Jacksonville, Florida, in 1993 and 1994 respectively. Contract options cover three additional WSTs, two IATs, three acoustic and three non- acoustic part-task trainers (PTTs) and major modifications to two existing PTTs. The simulators will train air crew on the Boeing Update IV anti-submarine warfare system being developed for the Lock heed P-3C Orion and its succes sor, the P-7 • Air France and Thai pick Wicat Wicat Systems is to provide computer-based training for the Boeing 747-400 airliner to flag- carriers Air France and Thai Airways International. The company will supply Air France with workstations and Wicat-developed flightcrew training courseware enabling Air France to begin courses in Sep tember ahead of the end-year introduction of the 747-400 into the airline's fleet. Thai Airways, meanwhile, has ordered training hardware and software worth more than $400,000. Included is 747-400 avionics courseware jointly de veloped by Wicat and Northwest Aerospace Training, the training arm of Northwest Airlines. Fileservers and workstations will be installed in Bangkok and courseware to be delivered on the network includes 747-400, MD-11, A300-600, A310 and ATR training. Wicat says that the Thai system is one of the first to deliver courseware for aircraft from the three major manu facturers. • FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 1 I - 17July 1990
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