Aviation News Item: 00929

21st Oct 2009

Source: fly-corporate.com

CAE has introduced a new programme for business aviation customers that will incorporate a Flight Operations Quality Assurance (FOQA) service and enhance training using evidence-based scenarios derived from analysis of real-world flight data.

Both capabilities are delivered using CAE Flightscape software tools, the industry standard flight data analysis and visualisation solution for aircraft manufacturers, government agencies, regional airlines, and major air carriers.

The new service is available to customers who train pilots or maintenance technicians at CAE's business aviation training centres in Dallas, New York, London and Dubai.

The launch customer for the new service is a Fortune 100 company, which operates a large fleet of Gulfstream aircraft.

In addition, eight new business aircraft full-flight simulators (FFS), expected to be ready for training in the next few months, are being installed at CAE pilot and maintenance training centres in Dallas, New York, London, and Dubai.

A Cessna Citation CJ3 FFS recently received US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) certification at CAE's North East Training Centre (NETC) in Morristown, New Jersey, near New York City. Training for the Embraer Phenom 300 is planned to be in place at CAE SimuFlite in Dallas, Texas and CAE's Burgess Hill UK training centre near London in coordination with deliveries of the new aircraft during 2010 - as part of the Embraer CAE Training Services (ECTS) joint venture. Bombardier Learjet 45/45XR and Cessna Citation II simulators will be ready for training at Burgess Hill in early 2010. Also early next year, a new Dassault Falcon 50EX FFS will be installed in Dallas, the world's largest business aviation training facility. In Dubai at Emirates-CAE Flight Training (ECFT), a Hawker 800 XPi FFS is currently going through certification evaluation, and a Bombardier Global Express FFS will be installed the first half of 2010.

With the addition of these simulators, CAE will offer training on more than 70 different fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft types from AgustaWestland, Airbus, Bell Helicopter, Boeing, Bombardier, Cessna, Dassault, Embraer, Gulfstream, Hawker Beechcraft, Piper, Sikorsky, and Twin Commander Aircraft LLC. All those simulators are part of CAE's previously announced expansion plans.

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