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1998
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SIMULATION A TRAINING IVEX prepares image generator GRAHAM WARWICK/WASHINGTON DC IVEX IS TESTING a prototype of its AeroReality image genera tor, based on die Silicon Graphics (SGI) Onyx2 InfiniteReality gra phics supercomputer. The AeroReality is intended to be die first SGI-based image gener ator able to meet the highest com mercial-flight-simulation training standard, described as Level D. The Norcoss, Georgia-based company hopes to complete devel opment by the end of the first quar ter of 1998, and is already offering the system for commercial and mil itary contracts requiring Level D perfonnance. IVEX has complet ed a sample database with Level D scene content and calligraphic- lightpoint capability is "up and running", the company says. Bright, sharp, lightpoints are essential for Level D approval and IVEX is the first to exploit a calli graphic capability newly developed for SGI's InfiniteReality. The company admits that it has had "teething problems", particu larly in exploiting the SGI ma chine's ability to generate three- dimensional terrain. IVEX says that it has taken advantage of its previous VDS image-generator's ability to produce richly textured, but flat, terrain, rewriting thatsoft- ware for the SGI machine. The AeroReality's texturing capability is now "working quite well", the company says, and work is under way to develop die weath er and lighting effects required for Level D qualification. • Hughes wins Danish ATC training deal HUGHES TRAINING'S UK arm has won an $8 million contract to supply Denmark's civil- aviation administration with an air- traffic-control (ATC) training system for installation at its Copenhagen Airport academy. The system will include 34 radar- simulator positions, five aerodrome trainers and an ATC visual tower simulator. The contract marks the first major order for Hughes' new FIRSTplus training system. The tower simulator will have workstations for two controllers and one assistant, linked to four pseudo-pilot positions. A visual system will project out-of-the- window scenes of Copenhagen Airport on a 270°-wide display. The academy trains civil and military controllers to handle Danish and Greenland airspace. Academy chief Per Hanson says that use of the new FIRSTplus sys tem will range from part-task train ing to fully integrated air-traffic- management exercises. • Hughes Training and Lufthansa Technical Training are to pursue technical and customer-service training opportunities widi airlines, maintenance organisations, manu facturers and suppliers, focusing on support of Airbus, Boeing, Bom bardier and Douglas aircraft. J BAe buys Australian Aviation College BRITISH AEROSPACE Training Services has ac quired the Adelaide-based Australian Aviation College from BTR-owned Hawker de Havilland. The purchase, for an undis closed sum, places Australia's two biggest training organisa tions under full BAe control, following the UK company's acquisition of Ansett's 50% stake in the Tamworth, New South Wales-based Australian Air Academy. The two colleges' will between them have a com bined capacity of almost 500 students*and a fleet of 80 air craft, and will employ 180 staff. Both establishments have strong contracts with Asian carriers, as well as doing con siderable work for African, Australian, Middle Eastern and UK airlines. The Tamworth centre also has a growing mili tary-training business. J BMA picks TTS simulator for A320 BRITISH MIDLAND (BxMA) has selected Thomson Train ing & Simulation (TTS) to supply an Airbus'A320 full-flight simula tor, to support its purchase of 20 A320/A32 Is. The device is sched uled to be installed alongside a TTS-produced Boeing 737 simu lator at the airline's training centre in late 1998. CAE Electronics, meanwhile, has sold a Boeing 737-700/800 full-flight simulator to SBG of Monchengladbach, Germany, a joint venture between the airport authority and RWL, which already operates a CAE-built 737- 300/400/500 simulator. The device will be delivered at the end of 1998. The British Midland A320 sim ulator will be equipped with an Evans & Sutherland ESIG-3350 visual system. CAE, meanwhile, has been selected by FedEx to sup ply two MaxVue Plus visual sys tems, with an option to purchase additional units. 3 BA awards pilot-training contracts BRITISH AIRWAYS is moving someab initio pilot-training out of Australia and into the USA, while renewing contracts widi two UK-based training colleges. The airline says that considerations were "overall cost-effectiveness, but also quality and reliability". The US contract-winner is the Western Michigan University's new International Pilot Training Centre, while UK establishments Cabair College of Air Training and Oxford Air Training School won contract renewals. The Australian Aviation College, Adelaide, will not have its two-year contract renewed when the last of its BA stu dents graduate, says the carrier. BA explains that it likes to monitor its own students' progress, and Australia's distance from UK has made that costly. UK-based col leges have higher fees, but lower monitoring and final-testing costs have enabled diem to compete, BA says, revealing that failure rates are the lowest it has ever achieved. • SIMONA research simulator takes shape at Delft EVANS & SUTHERLAND has agreed to provide a visual system for Delft University of Technology's SIMONA research flight-simulator, which is now taking shape in the Netherlands. A three- channel "state-of-the-art" visual will be provided for the simulator, which is being assembled with industry sup port. The composite "shut tle", which houses the ffightdeck, has now been mounted on the high-perfor mance six-axis motion base, and a 777 instrument panel and centre console, provided by Boeing, are being installed. The simulator will be moved to a purpose- designed building early in 1998, ready to receive the wrap-around visual system. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 7 - 13 January 1998 19
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