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SIMULATION * TRAINING Carrier-based F-18 simulator succeeds on Independence GRAHAM WARWICK/WASHINGTON DC BOEING REPORTS THAT an F-18C flight simulator installed on the US Navy aircraft carrier USS Independence is "per forming well" in the first test of a carrier-based weapon system train er (CVWST). The simulator supplied by Boeing has been in operation since mid-January and may be trans ferred to another carrier or to a shore base when the Independence proof of concept trial ends. Keith Hertzenberg, general manager of training and support systems at Boeing's aerospace sup port unit, admits that the installa- Tight space aboard the carrier made installation a challenge tion of the CV WST in a ready room on the carrier was a "chal lenge". The device had to be bro ken down, fitted through the ready room door, and re-assembled, but has operated "nearly flawlessly" since being installed, he says. The availability of a simulator has allowed crews to perform weapon tactics training "...which there is no other way to do while under way", Hertzenberg says. The CV WST includes a simulat ed F-18 cockpit and compact Boeing developed visual system. The device is less than 2.4m tall and occupies only 6.1 x 4.6m of floor space, running off normal power. The concept demonstration was intended to show "... we could install a device in a compact area, provide the weapons training and rehearsal necessary and prove diat the device was hardy enough [for shipboard use]", says Hertzenberg. • FSI plans two more ERJ-145 simulators FLIGHTSAFETY Inter national (FSI) has announced plans to build two additional full flight simulators for the Embraer RJ-145 regional jet. The US company is the official training organisation for the ERJ-145 and has so far completed two simulators. One ERJ-145 simulator has entered service at FSFs Houston, Texas, centre, where it is being used to provide training for Continental Express. A second machine is oper ational at FSI's Tulsa, Oklahoma, simulator manufacturing plant, where it is being used by American Eagle, but will be relocated closer to an ERJ-145 operator. Both have Level D training approval. The two new simulators will be delivered in 1999, six months apart, to locations that will be decided by Embraer. The training company already operates several simulators for the Brazilian manufacturer's EMB-120 regional turboprop. FSI also plans to build a third simulator for the Bombardier Canadair Regional Jet. The first two Level D devices are in service at the company's Cincinatti, Ohio, and Wilmington, Delaware, train ing centres. J BA cadets start US training PAUL RICHFIELD/BATTLE CREEK THE FIRST CLASS of British Airways cadets has begun training at Western Michigan University (WMU) as part of the airline's drive to take on some 2,500 pilots over the next decade. A second group ofB A trainees will arrive at Michigan in May under die two year $6 million deal signed by BAlast December. An optional third class is due in die fourth quar ter. Two UK flight schools - Cabair College of Air Training and Oxford Air Training School - also provide ab hiitio training for B A Two-thirds of the 2,500 new hires will be "direct entry pilots", with the rest trained as cadets. The initial group of 16 arriving at Battle Creek, Michigan, in March will cost £65,000 each to train. WMU has invested heavily in its aerospace sciences programme to attract customers, receiving $8.2 million in grants from the Kellogg Foundation - set up by the area's largest employer. Following UK Civil Aviation Audiority approval of its programme last July, the school began training 16 self-sponsored students from the UK and Ireland. In January, 24 Aer Lingus cadets entered ab initio training at WMU. Of the 3 3 flight instructors on the WMU payroll, nine are UK citi zens dedicated to die CAA training curriculum. The 56-week course runs from 141h primary training in Cessna 172Rs through to aerobat ics, simulator training and lOh of cockpit resource management. BA cadets will complete four weeks of jet transition training at British Aerospace Flying College in Prestwick, Scodand, before join ing the airline as first officers.. • Schreiner adds Belgium's EATC to portfolio SCHREINER Luchtvaart-Groep of die Netherlands, which owns Schreiner Airways, has acquired European Aviation Training (EATC) at Brussels Air port through its newly founded Simubel subsidiary. EATC has six flight simulators for the Airbus A310, Boeing 727-100, and 727-200, McDonnell Douglas DC-10 and MD-80 and Lockheed Martin C-130. EATC gains 85% of its BFr200 million ($5.3 million) turnover training pilots from 34 countries, and in 1997 made a net profit of Bfr 18 million. • NEWS IN BRIEF • FSBTI PICKS CAE FlightSafety Boeing Training International (FSBTI) has selected CAE Electronics to supply a Boeing 737-700 Level 5 flight training device for delivery to its Seattle sim ulator centre in August, where it will be used as a classroom-based mainte nance trainer. • TTS UPGRADES C-5 The first of seven Lockheed C-5 weapon system trainers upgraded with flight man agement/global positioning systems by Thomson Train ing & Simulation (TTS) has been delivered to Flight- Safety Services, which oper ates the C-5 aircrew training system for the US Air Force. • SEOS FITS DISPLAYS SEOS Displays is completing a £3 million ($5 million) con tract to install 220°-wide Panorama displays on four flight simulators at the US Air Force's special-opera tions training base at Kirtland AFB, New Mexico. MC-130P, MH-53J and MH-60G simulators have been upgraded and the final, TH-53 A, device will be ready for training in May. • FIRST FOR DUTCH ATC The Netherlands has accept ed into operation the FIRST air traffic control (ATC) tower simulator supplied by Raytheon Systems UK and installed in a new training centre at Amsterdam Schip- hol-East. Controller training is scheduled to begin in the third quarter. • DHFS GETS TWIN SIM The UK Defence Helicopter Flying School (DHFS) has taken delivery of a Frasca built Bell 412 flight training device for multi-engine training. The device is fitted with a full flight package, complete aircraft systems modelling and a Frasca FVS- 200 visual display. FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 22 - 28 April 1998 27
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