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IN BRIEF , TRAINING NEEDS Cessna's training partner FlightSafety International will need to add eight simulators as the Citation CJ3, Sovereign and Mustang business jets enter service over the next three years, says the manufacturer. FlightSafety operates 44 Citation and Caravan training devices, including 20 Level D simulators. EH101 PROCEDURES Canada's Atlantis Systems International is on schedule to deliver two AgustaWestland EH101 helicopter cockpit procedures trainers later this year - one for the Canadian Forces' CH-149 Cormorant variant and one for the upgraded-cockpit version ordered by Denmark and Portugal. TWO SALES FOR ETC Environmental Tectonics (ETC) has sold a Gyro-IPT II spatial disorientation trainer to the Czech air force's Institute of Aviation Mediscience for $1 million. The University of North Dakota's School of Aerospace Sciences has bought a GAT-II general aviation trainer from ETC for spatial disorientation training. FLIGHTVIZ IN CHINA SimAuthor's FlightViz flight-data visualisation system has been installed on a Boeing 737-300 simulator at Alteon's Kunming, China, training centre. It will be used for crew briefing/ debriefing and airport familiarisation. CHINOOK TRAINING Royal Netherlands Air Force Boeing CH-47D Chinook crews have begun training at CAE's medium support helicopter aircrew training facility in the UK under a 15-year contract. ANZ'S NEW CENTRE Air New Zealand has opened a new training centre in Mangere. The first phase provides classrooms and workshops. Pilot and cabin crew training facilities will be complete by December. SIMULATION & TRAINING VISUAL SYSTEMS KAREN WALKER/ FRANKFURT Six more customers get into EP-1000CT picture Asian airline buys full-flight simulator while North American client orders upgrades Evans & Sutherland (E&S) has signed contracts for six more of its new EP-1000CT visual systems, one for a new full-flight simulator (FFS) and five for upgrades on installed machines. The US manufacturer says it will soon be able to reveal the latest EP-1000CT customers, but the deals have been completed. The new FFS sale is to an Asian airline and the upgrades are for a North American customer. Lufthansa, which was launch customer for the PC-based EP-1000CT, is the first airline to have the system certificated. The EP-1000CT now equips a Thales Boeing 767 FFS and a CAE Airbus A340 FFS installed at Lufthansa Flight Training's facility in Frank furt as well as a CAE Boeing 737- 300 FFS at its Berlin centre. All have Joint Aviation Authorities Level D certification. Other announced customers for EP-1000CT include Emirates, KLM and Singapore Airlines. Competition between the two main providers of the new breed of PC-based, ultra-realistic visual sys tems - E&S and CAE with its Tropos system - has become fierce this year. E&S commercial simula tion vice-president and general manager Richard Flitton describes the situation as "a bloodbath" as each company tries to maintain market share. E&S is confident, however, that it will stay ahead of the game, esti mating that the EP-1000CT will win "50-60%" of commercial visual sales in 2003, of which about 60% will be for upgrades. The high level of fidelity offered by the EP-1000CT, with detailed airport scenes, realistic portrayal of snow and poor weather, and "whole earth" database technology that continues to provide accurate terrain scenes throughout a flight cycle rather than just around air ports, has attracted flight training providers, such as Lufthansa, that specialise in offering high stan dards of training to airlines all over the world. Lufthansa Flight Training gen eral manager Dieter Hass says: "Finally, we have got what we have been looking for. I believe this is a completely different world." He says the visual system's almost photographic quality allows more airport familiarisation and runway incursion training to be done in the simulator, saving costs as well as raising the standard of training. Lufthansa is the first airline to have E&S's EP-1000CT certificated ORDER GRAHAM WARWICK / WASHINGTON DC Commercial debut for AAlchemy Thales Training & Simulation has selected Quantum3D's AAlchemy image generator for an Airbus A320 full-flight simulator ordered by Iberia Airlines. This will be the first commercial airline flight training application of the US company's PC-based visual system. The three-channel AAlchemy on the Iberia simulator will receive daylight Level C approval, says Ross Smith, executive vice-presi dent marketing, because the sys tem does not have calligraphic dis play capability, which is needed to provide the lightpoint brightness and resolution required for full Level C or Level D approval. "We have a working raster/calli graphic prototype, but we are wait ing for a business case to develop the system," says Smith. Prototypes have been installed on AAlchemy- equipped Lockheed Martin C-130 and Northrop Grumman EA-6B flight simulators produced by Lockheed Martin. Because of the fast pace of PC graphics development, Quantum does not plan to certificate a calli graphic capability for AAlchemy, which is now four years old. Instead, the San Jose, California- based company is focusing on its latest Independence image generator. "Any new raster/calligraphic visual would be based on Independence," says Smith. Quantum3D has sold visual sys tems for a wide range of military devices since it was set up in 1997. "We were very interested in the commercial market, and started the calligraphic project; then there was the downturn," says Smith. "Now we are working on technologies that could replace calligraphic." 28 8-14 JULY 2003 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL www.flightinternational.com
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