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1998
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SIMULATION * TRAINING Dragonair forges independence PAUL LEWIS/SINGAPORE DRAGONAIR HAS taken a further step towards indepen dence from Cathay Pacific Airways with the purchase of an Airbus A320 full flight simulator from CAE Electronics. The Hong Kong-based airline, which has also taken an option with CAE for an Airbus A3 30 simulator, will open its own flight crew train ing centre at Hong Kong's new Chek Lap Kok Airport by the end of 1999, when the level-D A320 simulator is scheduled for delivery. The two-bay facility will form part of a new HK$ 1.4 billion ($ 180 million) joint headquarters com plex under construction for Dragonair and its majority owner China National Aviation (CNAC), and will be separate from Cathay's new 14-bay simulator centre. The Chinese-owned carrier is setting up its own cadet pilot train ing scheme and plans to induct an initial batch of four to six trainees in early 1999, while the new centre will be open to third-party train ing. CNAC's two other subsidiary carriers, Air Macau and Zhejiang Airlines of China, are also drought likely to make use of die simulator. The tiiree carriers will have a com bined fleet of 22 A320/A321s by 2000, together with six Dragonair- operatedA330-300s. Airbus has already opened its joint-venture simulator centre in Beijing, while China Southern has ordered its own system and Asia- Pacific Training & Simulation has an operation in Singapore. "We're getting great encourage ment from Airbus - they're invit ing us to enter into a network with them," says Dragonair general manager Felix Hart. The carrier's Si 5 million invest ment in die centre will include a cabin crew emergency evacuation trainer and ground crew computer- based training devices. J FSI spreads business fleet to reach customers FLIGHTSAFETY Internat ional (FSI) plans to disperse its business aircraft simulator fleet more widely to improve service to corporate customers - a break widi the past, when die company locat ed its training centres near manu facturers' factories. FSI is the factory-authorised provider of initial customer train ing for most major business aircraft manufacturers, including Cessna, Dassault, Gulfstream and Ray theon. It operates simulator cen tres adjacent to their factories. Now the US training company is expanding its reach. An increas ing number of Citation simulators, for example, are being located close to Cessna's service centres. Most recently, FSI has placed a Citation- Jet simulator near Cessna's new service centre in San Antonio, Texas, set up to support Citation operators in the south-western USA, Mexico and Latin America. FSI's presence close to Cessna's new Le Bourget, Paris, service cen- FSI has installed 604 simulators at its training base in Tucson tre is also likely to be expanded. The training company's base next to Gulfstream's Long Beach, California, service and completion centre has been strengthened with a GIV simulator. The company operates seven simulators at its centre close to Gulfstream's plant at Savannah, Georgia. FSI's training base near to Bombardier's completion centre in Tucson, Arizona, has also been expanded, with Challenger 604 and Learjet45 simulators. FSI also operates Challenger simulators at Houston and adjacent to the manufacturer's Montreal plant. FSI also has additional Raytheon Beech King Air 200 simulators near the manufacturer's plant in Wichita, Kansas, and at Toledo, Ohio. A Learjet 55 machine has been relocated from Wichita to West Palm Beach, Florida. • NEWS IN BRIEF • RAF SEES PANORAMA SEOS Displays has been awarded a £2.5 million ($4 million) contract by CAE Electronics to supply six Panorama visual display sys tems for medium support helicopter simulators at RAF Benson, UK - three Boeing Chinook Mk2s, two EH Industries Merlin Mk3s and one Eurocopter Puma. • ANA VIEW VITAL All Nippon Airways (ANA) has ordered a FlightSafety International Vital 8+ Chroma View visual system with 200°-wide MultiView display for a CAE Electronics-built Airbus A3 20 simulator to be deliv ered in September. Three existing ChromaView sys tems at ANA's Haneda train ing centre will be upgraded to the improved standard. • ORIGINALSIM COMPLIES OriginalSim has released OSim 4.0, which it claims to be the only commercially available automatic simula tion development framework to comply with the US De partment of Defense's High Level Architecture, which is designed to ease the use of commercial off-the-shelf computer hardware. • SIMUFLITE CFIT COURSE SimuFlite Training has intro duced an optional course on controlled flight into terrain (CFIT) to review CFIT acci dents and demonstrate the use of the US Flight Safety Foundation's recommended checklist. Western Michigan University jets ahead with plans to acquire 737400 simulator WESTERN MICHIGAN University plans to acquire a Boeing 737-400 flight simulator and to offer a jet orientation course as part of its ab initio airline pilot training programme. Based at Battle Creek, Michi gan, the University's International Pilot Training Center is training cadets for Aer Lingus and British Airways. Eight students from Emirates Airlines are scheduled to join the Aer Lingus course in August, taking to 72 the number of international airline pilots being trained at the University. The Kellogg Foundation, which has provided funds to create the training centre, has agreed to part- fund the acquisition of a simulator, which is scheduled to arrive in die third quarter of next year. If the simulator arrives in time, the University says, the Emirates class will be die first to go through the five-week jet orientation course. If delivery isdelayed, cadets will receive the training at British Aerospace's school in Prestwick, Scotland. According to Joseph Dunlap, director ofthe University's School of Aviation Sciences, the centre is aiming for "four or five" ab initio clients, including one Asian and one African airline. • FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 15 - 21 July 1998 23
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