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1997
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SIMULATION * TRAINING Airbus Industrie and Wicat join in A310/A300-600 training upgrade GRAHAM WARWICK/ATLANTA AIRBUS INDUSTRIE IS improving pilot training for the A300-600 and A310-300, with the help ofWicat Systems, to match that available for the A320, A330 and A3 40. Wicat is supplying new com puter-based training (CBT) course ware and is developing a "free-play" trainer for the A3I0/A300-600 flight-management and -guidance system (FMGS), similar to devices produced for the newer Airbus types. Airbus contracted with Lindon, Utah-based Wicat to replace die existing video- and computer-based instruction courseware for die A310/A300-600. The new training course uses Microsoft Windows software to deliver CBT on a single personal-computer screen, elimi nating die need for a video-disc play er and monitor. The airframe builder will use the new courseware at its Toulouse AirAfrique will be one of the airlines to benefit from training upgrade training centre and die improved training course is scheduled to be delivered to Air Afrique, Air France, Air India, Air Jamaica, Emirates, Hapag-Lloyd, Korean Air, Middle East Airlines, SAETA, Singapore Airlines, Thai Airways and Yemenia. Wicat, meanwhile, has begun development of its FMGS free-play trainer. This will feature three- dimensional reproductions of die multi-function control/display and flight-control units, dirust levers and flaps/slats control in a free standing cockpit replica. The FMGS simulation software is being developed by die French company Faros. Airbus is participating in develop ment of bodi die trainer hardware and simulation software and will cer tify die accuracy and realism of die device when completed. Wicat expects the A310/A300-600 free- play trainer to be available by mid- 1997. • MDC T-38 training device has new display system MCDONNELL DOUGLAS (MDC) is to use an innova tive visual display on training devices to be produced for die US Air Force's Nordirop T-38 avion ics-upgrade. The company's Visual Integrated Display System (VIDS) will also be used to upgrade USAF MDC F-15 training devices. The VTDS is a low-cost display system which incorporates an image generator and rear-projec tion screens arranged so as to pro vide wide horizontal and vertical fields-of-view. The T-38 opera tional flight-trainers (OFT) will feature a VIDS providing a 216° horizontal by 135° vertical field- of-view. The upgraded F-15C weapons-tactics trainers (WTT) will feature two VIDS placed back- to-back to provide a 360° horizon tal by 270° vertical field-of-view. MDC is teamed with Israel Air craft Industries to upgrade die T- 38, and the US company is responsible for producing the sim ulators — eight OFTs and 11 unit training-devices, essentially OFTs without the visual system. MDC is also upgrading an initial four F-15C WTTs to full-mission trainers, adding the VIDS coupled with Evans & Sutherland's ESIG- 43 50 image-generator. The US company has also installed a 216° VIDS, this time with Lockheed Martin's Compu- Scene SE1000 image-generator, on an F-18 weapons-tactics and sit- uational-awareness trainer sup plied to Finland. J FSI's Boeing 777 receives Level C approval FLIGHTSAFETY Internat ional's (FSI) first Boeing 777 full-flight simulator has received Level C training approval. The FSI-built simulator is now in ser vice at the company's Seattle train ing centre. A second 777 full-flight simulator is now being built by FSI's Simulation Systems division for delivery to Malaysian Airlines in the second quarter of 1998. The 777 machine is the latest example of FSI's new Millennium flight-simulator design. As well as an improved external appearance, this design has a 225°-wide MultiView display for the Vital Chroma View visual system. It also has a forward-facing instructor's station using Microsoft's Windows NT operating system. The 777 simulator includes a fully functioning maintenance access terminal, which provides technicians with a record of sys tems operation and aircraft healdi. FSI expects the Seattle simulator to receive Level D training approval during 1997, after Boeing releases the required data package. • TTS unveils new- design simulator THOMSON TRAINING & Simulation (TTS) has deliv ered die first of its new-design full- flight simulators to the ATR Training Centre (ATC) in Tou louse, France. The new design was evolved following TTS' acquisi tion of Rediffusion and includes features from the UK company's Concept 90 simulator. The first new-design machine to enter service is one of two Aero International (Regional) ATR 42/72 full-flight simulators sold to ATC, both featuring ITS' Space visual system. A fixed-based simu lator was scheduled for delivery to the training centre by the end of 1996, with the second full-flight machine following during 1997. ATC has received the equivalent of Level C training approval for its first simulator, configured as an ATR 72 -210E. The device will also be certificated to provide training on the ATR 72-200 and ATR 42- 300 and -500. A third ATR 42/72 full-flight simulator, purchased by TTS' Orbit Flight Training sub sidiary, is to enter service at the Asian ATR Training Centre in Bangkok early in 1997. The centre is a joint venture between the sim ulator and aircraft manufacturers. • THY - Turkish Airlines has ordered four cabin-crew training devices from TTS, for delivery to the carrier's Istanbul Airport train ing centre in the second half of 1997. The devices are a Boeing 7 3 7/Airbus A310 emergency-evac uation trainer widi motion system and 737 cockpit replica; 737 and A340 cabin-service trainers; and an A310 overwing-exit door trainer.Q NEWS IN BRIEF • FRASCA DOWN UNDER Australia's largest privately owned flight-training school, General Flying Services based at Moorabbin Airport in Victoria, has purchased a Frasca Model 242 twin- engine flight-training device with Frasca FVS-200HR visual system for use in its commercial pilot's course. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 8 - 14 January 1997 13
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