Sat, Oct 30, 2004
A330-200/A340-600 Sim Is First Of Its Kind
CAE has been awarded a contract to
provide China Eastern Airlines with an Airbus A330-200/A340-600
convertible full-flight simulator featuring a new-generation CAE
Tropos visual system. As part of the contract, CAE will also
provide a range of CAE Simfinity classroom training products and a
second CAE Tropos visual system to upgrade an existing simulator
owned by China Eastern.
The CAE-built A330-200/A340-600 is the world's first convertible
simulator of this kind, allowing pilots to be trained on the two
types of aircraft within the same device. At list price, the
contract is valued at approximately C$23 million, with the
simulator slated for delivery in early 2006.
This contract represents the fourth CAE-built full-flight
simulator as well as the fourth CAE Tropos visual system to be sold
to China Eastern Airlines. CAE Tropos visual systems provide pilots
with impressive visual cues through the application of extensive
satellite imagery, enhanced weather, advanced real-time lighting
and shading effects.
As a complement to the CAE Simfinity
equipment provided to the airlines in July 2004 for its Boeing
737NG training, CAE will also provide China Eastern with a CAE
Simfinity Integrated Procedures Trainer (IPT), six CAE Simfinity
Virtual Simulators (VSIMs), and a CAE Simfinity Brief/Debrief
Station (DBS) for the Airbus A330-200 and A340-600 aircraft. CAE
Simfinity products share the same core software as CAE's
full-flight simulators. All of these will ensure that the training
curriculum that pilots follow is more operationally focussed by
familiarizing them with the cockpit environment early in the
training process.
"CAE has been supplying airlines within Asia Pacific with
full-flight simulators and other training technology for more than
20 years," said Nick Leontidis, CAE's executive vice-president,
customers, civil simulation and training. "This contract is further
proof of CAE's demonstrated leadership in the region."
This is CAE's seventh full-flight simulator sale so far this
fiscal year. During the last three years, CAE has been successful
in capturing more than 70 per cent of the competed full-flight
simulator orders in Asia Pacific, and more than 65 per cent of the
visual system orders.
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