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1991
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SIMULATION First contract for AAI Microflite BY GRAHAM WARWICK IN ATLANTA AAI Microflite Simulation In ternational has secured its first simulator contract since its acquisition by AAI in June. Stockholm-based SAS Flight Academy has ordered an Airbus A320 full-flight simulator. The machine was originally ordered by Braniff, which went bankrupt, and was completed as a "white tail". SAS signed a letter of intent to purchase the simula tor provided that a new owner was found for Microflite, once part of Singer. AAI bought the company and SAS exercised its option. The simulator which will be used for contract training, as SAS does not yet operate the Airbus aircraft. The A320 simulator will be ready for delivery early in 1992 following installation of a three- channel, four-window Link- Miles Image IV visual system and certification to US Federal Aviation Administration Level D training standard. Instead of being shipped im mediately to SAS's Arlanda Air port, Stockholm, training centre, the simulator will remain at AAI Microflite in Binghampton, New Jersey, for?'a period of in-plant flightcrew training. The machine is already being used to train A320 pilots for America West. The A320 simulator is the first to use AAI Microflite's open systems architecture. Motorola 68020 microprocessors are linked by a "reflective" fibre- optic memory bus which elimi nates latency problems, the company claims. A second such simulator, a Boeing 737 machine also originally ordered by Braniff, is nearing completion. The company, down to 75 people before the AAI acquisi tion, has recalled more than 50 employees and plans to have a 200-strong workforce by the end of 1991. • New Pacific training centre announced Asia Pacific Training and Simulation (APTS), a joint venture between British Aero space and Singapore Technolo gies, will become operational in April 1992 with a Reflectone- built Lockheed C-130 Hercules full-flight simulator. The new training centre, to be located at Loyang Crescent in Singapore, will have space for two simulators at first, with out line planning permission for high bays to house three more. APTS has been set up to meet local requirements for simulator training, initially on the C-130, expanding later to encompass other aircraft types plus land and naval systems. Plans call for the installation of additional flight simulators, cockpit procedures trainers, computer-based training class rooms and other devices "...as and when a need in the region is realised", says British Aero space Simulation's Peter Sanders, programme manager for the C-130 training centre. The C-130 simulator will have six-axis motion system and three-channel, four-window Rediffusion SP-X 250 daylight visual system. Databases will allow simulated low-level tacti cal flying over mountainous ter rain, representative of south east Asia, says Sanders. A generic airfield model will be tailored to APTS aims its capability at Asian Hercules operators suit individual customer's re quirements, he says. The simulator will be certifia ble to US Federal Aviation Ad ministration Level A training standards. Although the device will "equal or exceed" the re quirements for Level C approval, Sanders says certification to the higher level would require Re- flectone to collect additional flight-test data. • Ivex delivers first VDS-2000 system to FlightSafety Ivex has delivered its first VDS-2000 image generator to FlightSafety International. The six-window, four-channel visual system has been installed on a Beech C-12 (military King Air) full-flight simulator being built by FlightSafety's Simulation Systems division in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The visual system is designed to meet circling approval specifi cations for the Level C simula tor. Ivex is building four additional visual databases for FlightSafety, taking its library of VDS-1000 and -2000 databases to more than 30. "The VDS-2000 is the first textured daylight [visual] system for Level C certification priced under $1 million," says Ivex president Garry Diver. Com pared with VDS-1000, which has Level B approval, the system has higher resolution, enhanced lightpoints, a faster update rate and improved polygons. VDS-2000s will be delivered to China this year, for a Xian Y-7 flight simulator, and to a Euro pean customer. Ivex has mean while announced orders for six VDS-1000s from two customers, taking sales of the system to 53 units. Three VDS-lOOOs are for Pila- tus PC-9 simulators being built by Environmental Tectonics for the Royal Thai Air Force. ECC International will incorporate the other three systems, includ ing projected displays, in train ers it will deliver to "an Asian air force" between December 1991 and July 1992. • BRAATHENS SELECTS Norwegian airline Braathens SAFE has selected The Roach Organisation (TRO) to provide computer-based training for Boeing 737-300/400/500 flightcrews. Networked work stations running TRO's 45h 737 pilot transition course will be installed at Braathens' Fornebu Airport, Oslo, training centre alongside existing 737-400/500 full-flight and fixed-base NEWS IN BRIEF simulators. Japan Air Lines has selected TRO to supply a Boe ing 767 flight management system trainer. CAE FOR DELTA Delta Air Lines has ordered a Boeing 767-300ER Level 5 flight training device from CAE Electronics for delivery to its Atlanta training centre in September 1992. TAIWANESE TRAINING FlightSafety International is to develop a cockpit resource management training system for Taiwan's China Airlines. Train ing starts later this year and will be based on courses developed for Aloha Airlines and the Air bus Industrie training arm, Aeroformation. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 14 - 20 August, 1991 17
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