TechniFlite has completed its first mobile flight-simulator and awaits US Federal Aviation Administration certification of the truck-mounted device before taking it on the road to provide training for regional airlines.
The initial Mobile Training Facility (MTF) represents the Raytheon Beech 1900D. TechniFlite says that regional airlines have signed contracts to use the simulator, which will be driven to each customer's location to provide in situ training.
The MTF has a Level B simulator built by Training Devices. This is equipped with a McFadden six-axis-motion system and IVEX VDS-2000 visual system. A 12-student room is alongside the simulator in the tractor-trailer unit.
Englewood, Colorado-based TechniFlite says that, by using the MTF, some of its initial customers have calculated that they will save more than 50% in simulator training costs, compared to the cost of sending crews to be trained at a remote simulator centre.
Source: Flight International