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Aviation News Item: 01191
2nd Jun 2009
HAL and CAE Lay Foundation Stone for Helicopter Training Centre in Bangalore
Source: fly-corporate.com
 CAE and HAL held a ceremony to lay the foundation stone for a new helicopter training centre in Bangalore. The facility - Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) - is an equally-owned joint venture between HAL and CAE.
HATSOFF will offer Level-D simulator training to helicopter pilots and maintainers. The centre will be equipped with a CAE-built full-mission simulator featuring CAE's roll-on/roll-off cockpit design, which enables cockpits representing various helicopter types to be used in the simulator. When fully operational, HATSOFF will be able to train up to 400 helicopter pilots each year. Initially, HATSOFF will offer comprehensive training to civil and military customers operating four helicopter types: the civil variant of the Dhruv, the Bell 412 and the Eurocopter Dauphin and the Indian Army/Air Force variant of the HAL-built Dhruv.
The training centre - operational by mid-2010 - will feature multimedia classrooms, computer-based training, brief/debrief facilities, and a training management information system.
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