FAA Approves Company's G550 Virtual Ground School
CAE will install a new full-flight simulator at its CAE
SimuFlite training centre in Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas, USA, to
provide training for operators of the Gulfstream G450 and
Gulfstream G550 aircraft types. Training for pilots and aircraft
maintenance technicians will be available in 2012. The company
announced its plans at the NBAA convention in Las Vegas on
Monday.
CAE said Sunday it received regulatory approval for its G550
Virtual Ground School recurrent training. This is the first
web-based regulated recurrent training program for business
aircraft pilots to receive approval from the FAA.
"CAE continues to expand training resource accessibility and
options for our business aircraft clients," said Jeff Roberts,
CAE's Group President, Civil Simulation Products, Training and
Services. "Over the four-year period of 2009-2012, we will have
expanded by more than 40 percent the simulator capacity in our
global business aviation training network. And we continue to
innovate with new services which offer pilots and aircraft
maintenance technicians more training value and flexibility for
less overall investment."
CAE announced earlier this year that it is doubling the number
of locations in its global business aviation training network from
four to eight. In early 2011, CAE Amsterdam (Netherlands) initiated
training on Bombardier Challenger 300 and Challenger 604 aircraft
types. In early 2012, CAE will begin training for Learjet 40 and
Learjet 45 operators at a new training centre currently under
construction in Toluca - the industry's first business jet training
centre in Mexico. Also in 2012, the Embraer-CAE Training Services
joint venture will begin offering Phenom 100 and Phenom 300
training in Sao Paulo (Brazil) - the industry's first business jet
training centre in South America. And by 2013, CAE plans to open a
new business aviation training location in Asia.
CAE's other business aviation training locations include CAE
North East Training Centre in the New York City area (Morristown,
New Jersey USA); CAE Burgess Hill near London in the UK; and
Emirates-CAE Flight Training, Dubai, UAE.
In addition to the new programs in Amsterdam, Toluca, and Sao
Paulo, five new Level D full-flight simulators have entered service
in recent months or will be ready for training by early 2012. In
Dubai, training is being provided for operators of the Dassault
Falcon 7X, Falcon 900EX EASy and Falcon 2000EX EASy aircraft
models. In Morristown, the Cessna Citation Sovereign program became
operational in August.
In Dallas, CAE is completing installation and regulatory
qualification of a Level D full-flight simulator for the Hawker
Beechcraft King Air 350 with Pro Line 21 avionics. CAE is also the
exclusive training provider for the Nextant Aerospace 400XT
aircraft, and has a dedicated 400XT FFS in Dallas.
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