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TECHNICAL: SIMULATION Reflectone wins GE MH-60 contract General Electric (GE) has selected Reflectone to build a Sikorsky MH-60G Pave Hawk special-operations helicopter flight simulator in a contract worth more than $7 million. GE will equip the simulator with its Compu-Scene V high- fidelity visual and digital radar land mass simulation systems for delivery to the US Air Force in October 1992. The MH-60G simulator will be used for spe cial-operations training and mission rehearsal. Reflectone has also sold a Lockheed C-130 flight simula tor to the Brussels-based Euro pean Aerospace Training Centre (EATC), a subsidiary of Trans European Airways, in a contract worth more than $9 million. EATC will use the simulator to provide training to military and civil C-130/L-100 operators. The two contracts are crucial to Reflectone which is recover ing from financial difficulties with the aidl'of majority share holder British Aerospace. Chief executive officer Richard Snyder described the MH-60G contract as 'a vital strategic step' for the US simulator manufacturer. D Rediffusion simulates TCASII Rediffusion Simulation is in stalling its first TCAS II collision-avoidance . system simulation in a Boeing 747-400 simulator for Hong Kong-based Cathay Pacific Airways. Rediffusion has opted for a simulated solution rather than using aircraft avionics so that TCAS II can be economically retrofitted to existing simula tors. The stand-alone system provides easy integration with the visual system, weather radar and instructor's station, the company says. The simulation runs the same traffic-alert and collision-avoid ance alogorithms as the TCAS II systems supplied by Bendix/ King, Collins and Honeywell. The latest Change 6 software standard is used and the up coming Change 7 will be pro vided to customers as a replace ment microchip. The system provides six pre defined intruder encounters with the instructor able to de fine alternative conflicting traf fic. Up to two active intruders and a further four proximate aircraft can be presented on any of the available TCAS displays. Intruders can be TCAS- equipped or not and can be programmed to respond to or ignore TCAS advisories. Rediffusion has sold TCAS simulation systems for the Cathay Pacific 747, All Nippon Airways and Canadian Airlines 767 simulators, Midway MD-80 and United Parcel Service 727, 757 and DC-8 flight simulators. D Atlantis makes Canadian deal Ontario-based Atlantis. Aero space has been selected to manufacture flight training de vices for both Air Canada and Canadian Airlines International under a joint procurement. The programme involves ten devices for three different air craft types — four for the Air bus A320, four for the Boeing 767-200/300ER and two for the Boeing 747-400. The devices will simulate a number of functions, including aircraft flight management, autopilot/autothrottle, elec tronic flight instrument and airframe systems, says Atlantis. Atlantis believes the Cana dian order places it in a good position in the market for flight training devices to bridge the gap between ground school and flight simulators. • USAir picks CAE for Dash S deal CAE Electronics has con firmed the sale of a Boeing de Havilland Dash 8 flight simu lator to USAir. The C$12 mil lion ($10 million) contract in cludes an option for a second simulator for the Canadian twin-turboprop regional air liner. The simulator, convertible to both Dash 8-100A and Dash 8-300A configurations, will be delivered to USAir's flight train ing centre in the first quarter of 1992, joining CAE-built Boeing 737 and Fokker 100 machines. The Dash 8 simulator incor porates the IBM RISC/System 6000 computer and a Silicon Graphics instructor's • station, says CAE. The company has announced sales of seven IBM- equipped simulators since intro ducing the reduced instruction set computer earlier this year: two to Lufthansa (both A340s, worth C$44 million), two to Singapore Airlines (A310 and 747-400, worth C$39 million), two to China (737-300 and 757, worth C$31 million) and USAir's machine. • Vital builder eyes low-cost visuals McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems (MDESC) is developing a visual system specifically for low-cost networked simulators which it is widely believed the US forces will buy in large numbers. The project is an outgrowth of the SIMNET research pro gramme into the networking of many low-cost simulators to provide effective tactics train ing. MDESC is aiming for the US Army's aviation combined- arms tactics trainer (AVCATT) programme, planned for award in Fiscal Year 1992. AVCATT will require large numbers of low-cost AH-64 and OH-58D simulators each costing less than $1 million — the image generator and display ac counting for 65-70% of the price, says Ken Anderson, direc tor visual simulation systems at McDonnell Douglas Electronic Systems. The company is developing a medium-fidelity image genera tor to meet the requirement which is heavily focused on generating moving models, says Anderson. A new image genera tor is necessary, he says, be cause existing high-end systems will be too expensive when scaled down, and current low- cost systems too costly when scaled up, to meet the likely requirement. D BCFTL TAKES ADVANTAGE Rediffusion Simulation's launch customer for its new range of flight training devices is British Caledonian Flight Training which will receive the mid-range Vantage 500 device, representing a glass-cockpit Boeing 737-300, unveiled at last month's Farnborough '90 air show. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 3 - 9 October, 1990 23
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