Aero-News: Quote of the Day

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Aero-News Quote of the Day

“Once everything was completed, we learned a lot from this experience. And finding out that our customers were just as happy was great news. Knowing that an airline that will be flying the A350-1000 valued this work gave us all a boost.”

Source: Michael Lanson, an Airbus simulator test engineer, discussing the three-day simulator campaign with Cathay Pacific involved a month of pre-preparation, followed by a similar amount of time afterwards analysing the results. As Airbus prepares for the service entry of its latest A350 XWB jetliner version – the A350-1000 – a new approach that for the first time puts customers’ pilots into ground-based flight simulators during the test campaign has proven so valuable that such sessions are set to become regular events.

FMI: www.airbus.com