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" ... the training standards and best practises that have served the industry so well must be maintained – and improved."

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exploring the complete range of issues surrounding aviation training and simulation.

To that end, industry experts will assemble to discuss issues of upset prevention and recovery training, the maintenance of manual flying skills, training for the new navigation and approach aid technology, human factors, and of course the incredible advancements in simulation and e-learning technologies. And with most of the world’s simulation supplier base present on the exhibition floor, the latter task will be achievable through a simple stroll. We’ll also see perspectives on how to hone pilot in command attributes, Threat and Error Management (TEM), training return on investment, and operating for fuel efficiency and a low environmental footprint.

And we cannot forget about the dedicated maintenance and cabin training tracks at WATS. For the last decade, we’ve put great emphasis on these critical professions. With no less passion than their pilot colleagues, these communities break out into their own conference tracks and explore those training issues unique to their sector.

The seasons are certainly changing, not just from winter to spring, but with a new generation gradually replacing the old, an evolving regulatory reality, new aircraft and navigation technologies, and a more challenging business operating environment. While the change is constant, the training standards and best practises that have served the industry so well must be maintained – and improved. For 15 years a primary goal of WATS has been for delegates to return home not only with new perspectives, but also with real nuggets of value that might be of immediate value to their training, safety and business operations.

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While some in the northern hemisphere refer to the current season as mid-winter and are looking forward to spring, those of us who manage the annual WATS event refer to the present time as “pre-WATS” and are eagerly anticipating the full seasonal change to “WATS.” And for those of us who actually hail from the northern climes, we know that WATS Season is always sunny and warm in Orlando, Florida.

The development and management of CAT’s flagship training event may be a Herculean task, but the subject matter and origin of the speaker abstracts submitted reveals a great deal about what is currently top of mind, right across the industry.

Some of it is predictable, particularly in the US where the FAA is busy altering the qualification levels for new-hire pilots as well as rest and duty time requirements.

There are other regulatory changes in the works as well but the impact of these items alone will be felt acutely by the US industry, particularly the regional airline sector. As a result, the regional airline (RATS) track at WATS will include expert viewpoints on this topic, and we’ll be ably assisted by the Regional Airline Association’s (RAA) Flight Training Committee.

The regulatory reality is but one factor that influences the size and makeup of the potential hiring pool, and that is true right around the globe. But the larger issue affecting new pilot starts is declining youth interest in all aspects of our profession, be it pilot, cabin crew, maintenance engineer or air traffic controller. That’s why the International Civil Aviation Organisation’s (ICAO) Next Generation of Aviation Professionals (NGAP) initiative is a central part of WATS this year. Together with national regulators, training suppliers, air carriers, collegiate aviation, and most importantly the Next Generation themselves, we’ll be taking a detailed look at how this industry can be transitioned with all of its critical characteristics intact. Attendees of WATS 2012 will find that if they take the time to listen to, mentor and inspire these young people, they cannot help but be a little more encouraged about the future.

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Seasonal Change. Editor in Chief Chris Lehman comments on the 15th Annual World Aviation Training Conference and Tradeshow.

06 NATIONAL FOCUS Preparing for the Future. The Czech Republic has maintained a positive view on the requirement for aviation industry growth. Chris Long investigates Czech training and simulation capabilities.

10 ACCIDENT INVESTIGATION TRAINING Training for the Unthinkable. Robert W. Moorman looks at the training programs in place as well as the tools and techniques used in the aircraft accident investigative process.

14 NAVIGATION TRAINING Approaching RNP. Chuck Weirauch reports on the adoption of performance-based navigation by commercial air carriers and the status of training preparations.

17 TRAINING TECHNOLOGY Motion System Developments. Motion System technology and lifecycle management is examined by Marty Kauchak. www.halldale.com/cat

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Beyond Training Facilities. Marty Kauchak visits the simulation development facilities of industry icon FlightSafety International.

34 NEWS Seen & Heard. Updates from the training and simulation community. Compiled and edited by Fiona Greenyer.

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The Paperless Flightdeck. The use of iPads and android devices in the cockpit are becoming a reality in both training and operations. Chuck Weirauch investigates.

national Focus

Preparing for the Future Whilst the economic uncertainties within the European Union pose a challenge to those tasked with forward planning, the Czech Republic has maintained a positive view on the requirement for new entries into the aviation industry. Chris Long reports.

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rom the national flag carrier, Czech Airlines, through the Air Navigation Service, to Flight Training Organisations, it is business as usual in the training tasks.

The aviation industry is still seen as a desirable career, so there is no shortage of keen new entrants.

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At the present time Czech Airlines Group fleet consists of three types of aircraft; the biggest fleet is 19 aircraft of the Airbus A320 family; the most recent one arrived this year. There are also ATR turboprops and Boeing 737´s. Overall, the fleet is one of the most modern in Europe. To support the operation of these aircraft the Czech Airline training department has re-equipped its training facility at Prague Ruzyne International airport. The latest addition to the capabilities is a Boeing 737NG Level D FFS manufactured by CAE, and this device was inaugurated on November 22nd 2011. The simulator will be mainly utilized by CAE, but this is a first step for future co-operation between

CSA and first world operator of Training Centres.

The range of equipment is currently being used not just for the Czech Airline crews; some 50% of the training is for external customers, principally from Eastern Europe. Future plans include vigorous marketing to increase this share, potentially in partnership with other major players. The central location within Europe, lower overheads and understanding of regional cultures makes it a strong contender for outsourced training. CSA has historically recruited new pilots who have graduated from the ab-initio training process which leads to a CPL/IR and “Frozen” ATPL. CSA is still considering whether or not an MPL programme would meet its needs – the relatively long lead time required when committing to such a programme means that, for the moment, it will remain with the “classic” ab initio process.

Mr Jakub Motl, Head of Air Crew Training at CSA, points out that additional revenue is generated in some imaginative ways; not only is the cabin

Above The newly installed CAE-built 737NG FFS alongside the A320 simulator supplied by Thales.

Image credit: Czech Airlines.

emergency evacuation trainer used for its prime purpose (training cabin crew), but it is employed both as a movie/TV set, and, more recently, as a platform on which to offer the general public a one-day introduction to the role of cabin crew. This latter is both a form of education and an entertainment. This theme of opening the doors to the general public is carried through to courses on “Fear of Flying”, which claims a 90% success rate in helping people to cope with that anxiety. In parallel there is a series of activities grouped under the label “Funny Flying” to allow the public supervised access to the flight crew training devices on days which include some theory of what they are about to experience, followed by practical experience – a flight in the FFS.

Air Navigation Services The Air Navigation Services (ANS) of the Czech Republic have their training centre, the Czech Air Navigation Institute (CANI), based at Prague airport; it is run

by Jana Hochmanova, Deputy Director of Planning and Development Division.

Initially established as the sole supplier of training for Air Traffic Controllers in the Czech Republic, Hochmanova has seen it grow into several additional disciplines. The core philosophy is now based on the idea that it makes sound economic sense to consolidate the training for the neighbouring states which make up the Functional Airspace Block Central Europe within the Single European Sky. The core courses are basic theoretical and practical courses for Tower, Approach and Area controllers to prepare them for the next stage - Onthe-Job Training (OJT) in their chosen discipline.

A recent addition to the training tools is a 360 degree simulator for tower controller training. This is built by Adacel, and whilst it currently uses Czech airfields database, could be made to conform to a specific airfield if required.

A primary building block in all the training is proficiency in the use of English language, especially Aviation English, and ANS undertakes the language training for all its employees. This training is also available to pilots, air traffic controllers and other personnel of external customers. Testing for the ICAO Aviation English language proficiency is also carried out at CANI.

Above In 2009 CANI launched the new 3D TWR Simulator.

Image credit: Czech Air Navigation Institute.

Other categories of training are provided for, including a course for Air Traffic Safety Electronics Personnel (ATSEP) which consists of basic training and qualification training in communication, system monitoring and control, data processing, navigation and surveillance.

It is currently provided for a customer from Denmark. Airport management and selected regulatory and management tasks within the aviation industry are also part of the range of training available.

CANI also runs it own Flight Training Organization (FTO) which aims at com-

prehensive theoretical training of pilots from the basic up to a professional level.

Provision has been made for a complete refurbishing of the current CANI facility starting in January 2012, further emphasising positive view of the future training demands as international cooperation grows.

Flight Training Organisations There are about 15 Flying Training Organisations (FTOs) in the Czech Republic, but arguably the biggest one is F AIR Limited operating the unique AeroJOB Training Program. This special ab-initio program was created by sister company AeroJOB Ltd., which was established as the link between FTO and Airlines. F AIR is located at Benesov airport, some 40 kms from Prague. Michal Markovic (recently a speaker at EATS) is

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the CEO and Head of Training at F AIR and Training Manager in AeroJOB, and he notes that there is an issue of pilot trainees following a modular pattern for the CPL/IR route, which, he believes, can lead to very poor continuity of training and training records. The selection of each segment is often driven simply by the lowest cost, and this pattern does not necessarily lead to the best levels of competency.

Founded in 1990, F AIR was the first private FTO in central and eastern Europe, and now flies some 12,000 hours per year. It has an aircraft fleet of 32 aircraft – 15 Tecnam P-92s, two P2002s and one P2006T, together with five Piper PA28 Archers/Arrows/Warriors, one Piper PA32 Saratoga, four Cessna 150s/172s/182s, one TB10 Socata, one aerobatic Zlin Z142 and two Piper PA 34 Senecas. There is also a Mechtronix FNPTII which is interchangeable between Beech 200 and Seneca configurations. This is used not only for IR training, but also for Upset Recovery Training and the MCC training. The instructional pool of 40 is made up of eight full time instructors, of whom 75% have been trained in-house and are therefore a

to the right equipment and instructors, is a rigorous selection process. There is a pre-selection based on education background - this requires a minimum of high school level of maths/physics/ electronics and an English level equivalent of ICAO level 4 (to achieve level 5 by the end of the course). The main tool is the Compass selection process, together with a teamwork exercise evaluated by a psychologist. The final part is an interview with an experienced examiner/airline pilot. The process last for two days and there is an 80% washout rate. There is then a process to help secure a bank loan of up to 90% of the cost should the student need it, with a payback time of 10 years once the training is complete.

About 20-30 graduates a year complete this course.

Above F AIR operates 15 Tecnam P-92s.

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A comprehensive range of training capability has been established in the Czech Republic, and as long as the economic climate allows it, it is poised to deliver not just its own demand for competent operators, but also those of third parties from the regional and more distant destinations. cat

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Markovic stresses that the key to success in ab-initio training, in addition

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Training for the Unthinkable Aircraft accident investigators provide a valuable service to air transportation, which is why training of these professionals is so important. Robert W. Moorman investigates.

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n the night of Sept. 2 1998, Swissair Flight 111 was en route from New York to Geneva. The flight seemed uneventful.

But as the MD-11 neared the Nova Scotia coast, the cockpit filled with smoke before quickly disappearing. The crew concluded incorrectly that it was air conditioning smoke. Nevertheless, the pilots decided to divert to Halifax rather than proceed across the Atlantic Ocean. The plane circled off the coast to dump fuel before attempting an emergency landing. That attempt never came. Shortly thereafter, the airliner plunged into the ocean off Peggy’s Cove, killing all 229 people aboard and obliterating much of the aircraft.

What followed was a $57 million retrieval and four-year accident investigation that involved Canadian and US authorities. The Transportation Safety Board of Canada (TSB) attributed the crash to an in-flight fire. A spark had ignited the flammable thermal acoustic insulation materials called metalized polyethylene terephthalate (Mylar). The

fire slowly migrated aft of the cockpit into the cabin before igniting an unstoppable, extremely hot conflagration that started popping circuit breakers and cutting power to valuable onboard systems, including the flight data and cockpit voice recorders. Among the TSB’s 23 recommendations was a call to toughen flammability standards for all materials used on aircraft.

An aircraft accident investigator’s job is an important one that can help prevent future accidents and enhance safety through recommendations for regulatory action. In-depth ongoing training programs of these individuals have a cascading benefit for everyone involved in air transportation.

Selection Procedure Selecting accident investigator candidates in Canada is a relatively straightforward process. Prospective investigators are hired with a technical or operational background. An aircraft maintenance engineer’s license is required for the technical side. On the

Above The Transportation Safety Board of Canada put forward 23 recommendations after its investigation into Swissair Flight 111.

operations side, the TSB looks for candidates with an airline transport pilot rating (ATP) or a commercial helicopter license with a commercial rating.

TSB new hires receive an eight-day familiarization course, which includes integrated safety management and human factors training. TSB also hosts annual workshops where expertise is shared and “investigators can train other investigators across the country,” said Don Enns, regional manager of the Toronto air branch for TSB. What does not seem to exist worldwide as yet is an ab initio training program for just aircraft accident investigators. “I don’t think there is enough call for it,” Enns said.

Nevertheless, prospective aircraft accident investigators worldwide receive basic accident investigator

tigations held outside the US. Both agencies were invited to help with the investigation of the November 2011 helicopter crash in Mexico that killed Interior Minister Jose Francisco Blake Mora. Authorities have yet to determine the official cause of the crash.

Around 1,750 accidents and 10,000 incidents occur annually in the US, the FAA stated. While the NTSB investigates all major aircraft accidents, the FAA investigates the majority of aircraft accidents that occur domestically. NTSB investigates on site between 11% and 13% of the aircraft accidents that occur in the US annually, while FAA goes to around 88% of the accidents, according to Del Gandio. For those accidents at which NTSB is not present, the FAA supplies accident information for the NTSB final report.

NTSB Training The NTSB trains prospective investigators at its Training Center located on the Virginia campus of George Washington University, ten miles from Washington Dulles International Airport.

Like other accident investigative bodies, the NTSB hires people with experience in a field that can enhance an investigation. NTSB Training Center Director Paul Schuda, whose original field was organic chemistry, was hired as a hazardous materials investigator.

“There is a misconception that those who take our course are entitled to be accident investigators,” Schuda said. “While it may help, we look for

Advance Reps Aircraft and engine manufacturers are part of an official accident investigation if their products are involved. Airbus technical advisors on Go Teams go through a two-week accident investigation training course at Cranfield University or EASA in Paris. The schools provide familiarization training and guidance toward onsite investigation. At present, Airbus has ten investigators, or “advance reps” based globally that are available to help with an investigation, according to Christopher McGregor, head of accident incident investigation for Airbus.

Airbus also provides specialists from engineering or customer support personnel on site. All participating personnel undergo recurrent training on the health and safety aspects of an investigation.

As tragic as are accidents, particularly ones with fatalities, the investigation often yields data that enhances safety and training of aircrews and others.

McGregor was reluctant to discuss specific accidents, but said, “I cannot imagine an investigation from which we have not had some lessons the industry can take” to improve safety and training. Boeing, Airbus and the Flight Safety Foundation have advocated additional training for pilots because of several accidents over the years involving “functional check flights,” according to Jim Buren, director of technical programs for FSF. In 2010, the Foundation held a functional check flight symposium in Vancouver.

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training from outside training schools, regulatory authorities and accident investigative bodies, such as the US Federal Aviation Administration and the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB).

Much of the advanced instruction is on-the-job (OJT) training. “I like to say that there is no such thing as an expert in accident investigation. They’re only some people that know more than others,” said Frank S. Del Gandio, program manager for FAA’s accident investigation training at the Transportation Safety Institute (TSI) in Oklahoma City.

The TSI, an arm of the US Department of Transportation, provides aircraft accident investigation training for FAA and other federal agencies.

The FAA provides accident investigator training for its inspectors working at the 94 Flight Standards District Offices (FSDO) located through the country. When inspectors are hired, they go through an 11 to 13-week training course in Oklahoma City. The training includes a basic indoctrination for all students, and advanced courses in general aviation and air carrier investigation. Courses also include human factors, rotorcraft, cabin safety, safety management systems, jet turbine engine and heliport.

The FAA also provides accident investigation training at the US army facilities at Ft. Rucker, Alabama and in Germany, and every other year in Australia, South Africa and Turkey. At times, the FAA and NTSB participate in inves-

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excellence in the field.” Meaning, experience alongside a veteran investigator remains the best training tool.

College graduates might learn the basics of accident investigation from an accredited college or university and “then we show them how to investigate accidents,” Schuda said.

The Center has three missions: “train our accident investigators, train our investigative partners (those parties invited to participate in the accident investigation), and recovering training costs,” Schuda said. The Center’s twoweek flagship course is taught threetimes annually. One additional course is taught exclusively to active military personnel. The course is divided into three sections, beginning with a familiarization course on NTSB and its structure. The second element deals with the accident investigative process, from notification of the accident to releasing the final report on the cause of the accident. The third element covers the specific technical areas covered during the investigation. Students hear presentations on air traffic control, weather, fatigue, turbine engines and survival factors.

The culmination of the course is a full-scale mock investigation using a training fuselage of a BAe Jetstream 41 once used by now-defunct Atlantic Coast Airlines as well as pieces of actual wreckage. The Center has approximately 9,600 pieces, 40 percent of the remains of TWA Flight 800, and a Boeing 747-131, which exploded and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near East Moriches, N.Y., on July 17, 1996.

What makes NTSB’s training unique, Schuda said, is that NTSB accident investigators with whom the new hires might work with on-scene teach most of the courses. Retired NTSB investigators are employed as well as university professors. Of the two-dozen instructors for the two-week course, 22 are active investigators.

Seventy-three students attended the last course held in September 2011. The NTSB trains between 1,100 and 1,200 students annually. Railroad and marine accident investigation courses are also taught.

The NTSB uses a “party system” under ICAO Annex 13 to investigate aircraft accidents. Meaning, aircraft and engine manufacturers, pilot and

Above & Left The NTSB trains prospective investigators at its training center located on the Virginia campus of George Washington University.

Image credit: NTSB.

flight attendant unions, FAA, airport authorities and other interested parties can be included in the initial accident investigation.

Additional Help The Air Line Pilots Association International (ALPA) is invited to participate in an NTSB-led aircraft accident investigation when their member pilots are involved. Because of this status ALPA conducts its own accident investigation training for its volunteer participants.

The union conducts two three-day courses and one four-day course for its accident investigators. The courses cover everything from rules and responsibilities, the role of the regulator, cognitive interviewing, and critical incident response as well as the field and report phase of the investigation.

The second phase includes presentations by national investigators as well as pathogen and accident site preservation training. The last course, taught in partnership with the University of North Dakota, has ALPA volunteer investigators participate in a mock crash investigation using aircraft wreckage.

“We want our training to mirror how the actual accident process is handled,”

said Capt. Charles Hogeman, ALPA Aviation Safety Chair. “And we want them to know that there are multiple causes to an accident typically.”

During a recent interview, Hogeman disagreed with the notion that NTSB takes too long to release the final report of the accident investigation, elements of which could be used as a training tool for pilots, cabin crew, aircraft maintenance technicians and others.

“Industry and government do not need to wait for a final NTSB report to be released before improvements can be implemented,” Hogemen said. Some of NTSB’s recommendations to the parties are implemented before the investigation is complete and the final report is used, he said. History has shown that some airlines won’t make those changes in training unless forced by new FAA regulations, industry observers added.

EASA The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) does not conduct accident investigations. Nor does it provide specific training on investigation techniques.

That role is left to independent national safety investigation Authorities, which EASA advises. EASA does offer a threeday training course on ICAO Annex 13 and Aircraft Accident Investigation and Prevention. In addition, EASA offers continued airworthiness training with a

specific module on Regulation (EU) No 996/2010 of the European Parliament and the Council of Oct. 20, 2010 on the investigation and prevention of accidents and incidents in civil aviation.

As advisor to safety investigation authorities, the core training given to EASA staff is typically on EASA’s “responsibilities in the various fields of rulemaking, approvals and standardization and the certification of products, parts and appliances” said Bernard Bourdon, Accident Investigation Manager – Safety Analysis and Research Department.

Important to any investigation are the “black boxes” and radar tapes. While not always analyzed on site, the cockpit voice recorder and flight data recorder can be valuable sources of information to accident investigators.

Data Helps Using accident data is one proven way to bolster training programs and enhance safety. Fatigue was a factor in the Aug. 18, 1993 crash of a Kalitta Airways DC-8 at Guantanamo Bay Naval Base, Cuba, as well as the Feb. 13, 2009 crash in Buffalo, N.Y. of a Colgan Air Bombardier Dash 8-400 regional airliner.

Consequently, NTSB today puts on a two-day course on fatigue as it relates to all modes of transportation. The Captain and First Officer of the Kalitta Air crash have spoken to students at the NTSB Training Center.

The acceptance and adoption of cockpit resource management and

technology such as ground proximity warning and traffic collision avoidance systems and automatic dependent surveillance-broadcast (ADS-B) came about, in part, as a result of aircraft accidents. The technology may have been on the drawing board, but high profile aircraft accidents expedited development and installation of these systems.

The Southern California Safety Institute (SCSI) offers an aircraft accident investigation course that familiarizes students with the regulatory requirements applicable to ICAO Annex 13. Students from all over the world learn how to investigate aircraft systems, structures and engines. Students also learn about aircraft performance and specialized areas of investigation such as fire, midair collision, in-flight explosion and human factors.

SCSI’s large aircraft accident investigation program is six weeks. A two-week course on aircraft accident investigation is also offered. Course instructors have extensive investigation experience in various countries, including Australia, the Netherlands, Taiwan and Canada.

“We’re focused on [accident] investigation and prevention,” said Bill Fowler SCSO Director of Investigation Programs.

Fowler is a former investigator for TSB of Canada.

SCSI students vary from those who are or want to be employed by government accident investigation or safety bodies or someone who would like to

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“Much depends on the need of the organization and the level of training competency they need for their staff,” Fowler said.

SCSI’s main training center is in Torrance, Calif., with a branch in Halifax, Nova Scotia. In Spring 2012, the school plans to open another facility in Abu Dhabi. For the last 11 years, SCSI has conducted a training program in Prague, at the Czech Airline Training Center.

Aircraft and engine manufacturer’s participation in an accident investigation is of paramount importance. Accidents often result from a chain of events and OEM’s engineering expertise could help investigators determine the exact or probable cause of an accident.

Equipment manufacturers also help the Team develop “intervention strategies” to prevent similar accidents in the future according to a Boeing backgrounder. The strategies could include new operating procedures, aircraft design modifications, new technologies and training aids for flight crews and mechanics. In addition to detailing the cause of an accident, NTSB often includes a need for additional training in its final report.

“Aviation is a fast evolving domain that makes extensive use of the latest technologies. As a result, accident investigators must adapt to the trend and keep initial and recurrent training up to date,” said EASA’s Bourdon. cat

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Approaching RNP As the US transitions to NextGen operations, the adoption of performance-based navigation (PBN) by commercial air carriers is critical to the success of the nation's shift to a satellite-based air traffic navigation system. Chuck Weirauch reports.

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ccording to the FAA, a very high percentage of US Part 121 carriers are working to gain agency approval for the most advanced level of PBN procedures, Required Navigational Performance Authorization Required (RNP AR - formerly RNP SAAR).

Airlines must meet FAA requirements for operations and training, develop procedures and equip their aircraft for satellite navigation to gain the agency's approval for PBN operations. But depending on the operator, a business case for RNP AR implementation could outweigh the cost of the transition for some airlines, such as those that need the higher level of satellite-based precision navigation departures and approaches at certain airports. However, while these procedures are designed to improve safety, some airlines that have implemented RNP AR have yet to see benefits such as improved fuel savings and more efficient flight performance.

According to Mark Steinbicker, Man-

ager FAA's Performance Based Flight Systems Branch of the Flight Standards Division, a high percentage of US Part 121 operators have gone after RNP AR approvals that in the recent past have not done so, and some have merged with airlines that have such approvals. Approximately 2,100 of the aircraft in the US Part 121 operators' fleets are approved for RNP AR operations, with another two to three operators to be approved over the next year.

Documented Benefits One Part 121 operator that has experienced such benefits is Alaska Airlines.

According to Captain Doug Burton, Director of Flight Training, all of the 1,480 pilots for his airline are fully qualified to the SAAR level of RNP approaches. The airline began implementing RNP in 1995, and now the procedures are a mainstay of Alaska Airlines operations. Since the airline went AQP, RNP AR training is part of the airline's continuous learning program.

"Back in 1995 we saw a real need

Above RNP enables aircraft to fly more precise approaches through tight corridors and congested airports.

Image credit: Honeywell.

to access our namesake state and those communities that nestled up in the mountains like Juneau and Sitka (these airports don't have radar) which are very hard to get into in the winter," Burton pointed out. "We had 140 missed approaches into Juneau before we started our RNP effort."

According to Brian Holm, Alaska Airlines Fleet Captain, in 2011 the air carrier saved more than 210,000 gallons of fuel, amounting to monetary savings of $19 million. But the savings are more than in dollars, he said. In Juneau alone, the airline recorded nearly 500 approach "saves," where a flight would not have been able to land except for the RNP approach, amounting to $10,000 per save.

"RNP AR has had a dramatic payback for us and is a huge part of our

operations and training," Holm emphasized. "I would recommend airlines implementing it very strongly. The whole NextGen airspace is dependent on RNP, so airlines are going to have to do it and the sooner the better."

Despite the costs of the transition, since 2009, Southwest Airlines has spent more than $175 million to gain RNP operations approval for its fleet of 500-plus Boeing 737 aircraft and 6,000 pilots. According to Captain Tim Leonard, Director of Fleet Operations and Certificate Chief Pilot, along with Senior Manager of Airspace, Captain David Newton, the transition from the airline's traditional operations to those of RNP AR was a major training endeavor. That is because some pilots have been flying for Southwest for 30 years in Boeing 737 Classic aircraft, while others were more familiar with equipment on the fleet's 737 NG airliners.

The first job for the overall training program was to bring all pilots up to the same level of knowledge through four phases of training courses, Leonard and Newton said. The first two courses were distance learning sessions, followed by two classroom and simulator sessions

leading to the completion of training required for RNP AR approval. The initial courses started in the summer of 2008 and were completed at the end of 2010.

"We didn't even use autothrottle here before the beginning of the RNP training," Newton said. "There was no standalone training course for autothrottle, so we had to develop our own.

And that's when we decided that we needed four phases of training, starting with the first module that included how to use VNAV above 10,000 feet. So we had a bit of a cultural challenge just to provide some required RNP basics. This was a much bigger effort than the outside world really knows."

Training Courses In October 2011, Boeing and Lion Air, which operates an all-Boeing 737 NG fleet, announced that they had jointly performed validation flights to test tailor-made RNP AR procedures at two terrain-challenged airports, Ambon and Manado, Indonesia. This effort was led

by Boeing Flight Services, which provided RNP AR training for Lion Air's managers, dispatchers and flight crews.

According to several Boeing Flight Services sources who provided input for CAT, the company provides a baseline Performance-based Navigation (PBN) course called RNAV Academics as well as RNP AR training as part of a broader RNP AR operational approval implementation package for airlines.

The Boeing RNP AR course was written to satisfy the training requirements of FAA AC 90-101A and EASA AMC 20-26. The course consists of an academic CBT and a four-hour simulator period.

A number of major US carriers, as well as international carriers, have implemented RNP or RNP AR into their training programs. Boeing customers in Asia have implemented RNP AR into their approved training programs using Boeing-developed curricula and profiles for ground, simulator, and flight training.

Recurrent training for RNP AR is incorporated into the customer airline's special topic training programs during annual proficiency training. Courses for the 737 NG and 777 are FAA approved, and 787 RNP AR CBT is currently in development. One major advance with the 787 training is that the flight training device,

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due to its advanced visuals, can also be employed for RNP AR training.

According to FlightSafety International's Dick Grant, his company currently provides approved RNP AR courses for the Gulfstream 450 and 550-series of business aircraft, which include three hours of ground school and three hours of simulator training time.

Currently 35 FSI customers worldwide have implemented RNP AR operations, he reported, with a China customer employing some "very interesting" RNP AR approaches into the Tibet region.

The primary reason for business aircraft operators to implement RNP AR approach is to control traffic and provide terrain and obstacle clearances.

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Although a number of US airlines have implemented RNP AR operations, some say that the limited numbers of FAAapproved approaches have kept them from seeing the kind of fuel savings and more efficient flights that they were hoping to achieve. Another limiting factor is that air traffic controllers at airports with RNP AR-approved runways are sometimes denying pilots' requests for such approaches. The amount of time it can take to gain runway approvals, sometimes up to two to three years, and the lack of up-to-date ATC training at those facilities for the procedure contribute to this problem, airline sources say.

"Only 17 out of the 74 US airports we fly to have what we consider to be efficient RNP approaches," Southwest's Leonard said. "And we don't get the runway clearances as often as we would like. Because of these factors, we haven't done any way near as many of these approaches as we would like to have done. So from that standpoint, we are still waiting for the FAA to change some of the rules."

"The problem we primarily have is that we ask for those (RNP AR) approaches and often get denied," Newton explained. "Facilities and ATCs have to get RNP AR approval as well, and the biggest problem seems to be the equipment issue. RNP was a big cultural change for us, and it must be for air traffic control as well."

According to FSI's Grant, the biggest problem with RNP AR is that currently there are probably not more than 350 such approved approaches in the

US that are available to business aircraft. What is needed now are more airports that utilize this approach, such as into Aspen, Colorado, where there are accident issues, "because when you get better levels of approach accuracy, it increases safety tremendously," he emphasized.

According to the Boeing sources, "today when ATC deals with mixed RNP and conventional traffic, the conventional traffic often receives priority since they are the majority of the traffic in most destinations, and controllers are most familiar with the conventional operations. As the airplane manufacturers, together with FAA regulators and ATC continue to work together closely with airlines, new ACT standards will be developed allowing further increases to the benefits available through the use of PBN and RNP AR."

Progressing to NextGen According to the FAA's Steinbicker, the agency has "made great strides" for the past 10 to 15 years in implementing what he calls "vanilla" RNP approaches (such as RNAV and RNP Approach) across a vast majority of runway ends in the US, especially with vertical guidance and continue to do so.

"With RNP AR, we continue to produce these, but we work with the lead operators in those locations to identify what runways can benefit from an RNP AR approach," he explained. "We want to make sure that we have them in the

Above Alaska Airlines began implementing RNP in 1995, and now the procedures are a mainstay of the airline's operations.

Image credit: Alaska Airlines

right locations and not just overlap every runway that already has the “vanilla” approaches."

The FAA is also working to provide additional RNP AR training for ATCs, Steinbicker said. As with flight crew training, controller training is important as well. With national and local traffic at airports, and with mixed aircraft equipage with different levels of navigational capabilities, it can be a challenge for ATCs to accommodate the several levels of approach requests they receive, Steinbicker commented. To enhance training for pilots, it is important for aircraft operators to equip flight simulators with the appropriate navigational capabilities for their operations, he added.

"As the number of procedures out there in the inventory continues to increase and both pilots and controllers get more experience with these things in a learning curve, we will see more growth of RNP," Steinbicker summed up.

"The NextGen plan continues that we are going to progress to performancebased navigation, although we will still have pieces of the conventional operations out there, such as ILSs, for some time to come." cat

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Motion System Developments Trends and improvements in motion system technology and life cycle management are reviewed by Group Editor Marty Kauchak.

Charles F. Bartel, Jr., the product application manager for Moog, said that his company is working hard to meet the industry requirements for the delivery of new systems. “The market looks very good for the next year or so with orders

Above A Moog motion base underpinning a commercial full flight simulator.

Image credit: Moog.

other access construction. This strategy was expected to help control the ROT1000’s price and complexity, and all the while making it suitable for simulation applications with limited available space.

As presently configured, the range of motion made by the ROT-1000 allows it to support fixed screen setups typical for compact driving simulators in the civil and military sectors. “Another advantage of the system is the very stiff mechanical construction leading to crisp, high bandwidth motion cues," Stam added.

While E2M Technologies notes that civil aviation FFSs require very large movements and on-board visual systems that result in high moving loads, the Netherlands-based firm nonetheless envisions an application for the ROT1000 elsewhere in the civil airline pilot training continuum. “The typical advantages of the E2M ROT systems do not

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that have our production shop working at capacity.”

Moog’s research efforts include developing new components such as higher current amplifiers, longer stack motors, and other innovations to support higher payloads. “Currently, Moog has the ability to customize a system to address higher payloads. Higher payloads are not a standard product at this time,” Bartel emphasized. Worldwide, Moog has delivered motion systems for approximately 400 FFSs. At the 2011 I/ITSEC, E2M Technologies’ new eM6-ROT-1000 system caught the attention of the CAT editorial team. The device is touted to provide an extremely low profile by using a unique combination of rotary electric motor, gearbox and patent pending curved push-pull rod.

Ton Stam, E2M’s spokesperson for the system, noted that its 6-DOF configuration and 1,000 kg. (2,204 lbs.) payload capacity was designed with a low profile (settled height of 385mm. (1.3 ft.)) to eliminate the need for access ramps or

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confluence of not-so-subtle developments is sweeping the motion systems sector, making motion bases an ever important part of a full flight simulator’s (FFS) system.

Indeed, Joe Marott, the director of Southwest Airlines’ Flight Training Center, reaffirmed the importance of motion in FFS-based training. The industry veteran said that while the community’s pilots continue to rely on motion systems in their training programs to simulate the acceleration, deceleration, turbulence, and onset of certain “G” forces, they also need motion systems to add to the realism of upset scenarios and “startle” factor events – emergent community training areas of interest.

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translate to these [FFS] applications,” Stam noted and added, “Some applications, like fixed screen helicopter simulators can use this system or the 2-ton system currently under development."

Another version of this system, due this May, will be suitable for high frequency applications up to 50 Hz. “This system is aimed at shaker applications, for example in helicopter cockpit simulators,” Stam said.

For its part Thales is taking an active part in the Objective Motion Cueing Testing working group sponsored by Royal Aeronautical Society, and is also continuing to develop its EM2K motion system for even heavier payloads, beyond 15,000kg. The EM2K was designed as part of the latest RealitySeven FFS and is also offered as a retrofit. Some 50 EM2K systems are operational, according to Thales.

Bosch-Rexroth is looking at the 2012 I/ITSEC to introduce its EMotion-14000 to replace its end-of-life EMotion-12500 system. The latter system is currently only applied in fixed wing and rotary wing simulators for government and research use, and is one of three company products for this sector, the other two being the EMotion-4000 and -8000.

New Training Scenarios The Colgan Air 3407 and Air France 447 loss-of-control in flight crashes are among a number of high profile, commercial jet accidents worldwide in the last decade that have prompted a community review of pilot recovery skill development and sustainment training. Initial suggestions by regulatory agencies and other groups on how to bolster pilot training shortfalls in recovery skills include the continued use of Level D FFSs to deliver effective and appropriate training throughout the pilot’s working life.

To that end, several companies described their efforts to bolster motion software algorithms to support more rigorous training for upset and recovery events.

Thales has developed, with the assistance of regulators and customers, improved motion software algorithms, which maximize the capabilities of its EM2K motion system for such maneuvers. Sanjay Kaeley, the company’s product authority group manager, explained these improvements, which have been well received by its customers, mean that his company is able to offer upset recovery maneuvers with active motion where startle and vibration cues are generated as part of training scenarios. “Thales is

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also participating in the International Committee for Aviation Training in Extended Envelopes (ICATEE) working group sponsored by the Royal Aeronautical Society and will be incorporating its final recommendations,” he added.

Opinicus also participates in the ICATEE’s deliberations and remains focused on the emerging interest in upset prevention and recovery training. “Opinicus was also involved in the recent FAA Stall Stick Pusher working group,” Jim Takats, the company’s managing director, added. With respect to motion cueing, there are obviously some limitations as to the G-cueing capability of a typical 6-DOF synergistic motion system. Nonetheless, “Opinicus has developed (and continues to improve) its REALCue™ advanced Motion Cueing System (aMCS) which includes various advancements in the cueing algorithms to optimize the cueing,” Takats explained and continued, “This includes methods to not only optimize the motion in the normal training flight envelope, but methodologies for enhancing the motion cues for specific training tasks. We have been doing this very successfully in military simulators for stall training, inflight refueling, load drops, ground taxi, rejected takeoff training and other scenarios.”

Sabena Flight Academy – Development (SFA-D) reports progress to bolster the fidelity of the full flight simulator (FFS) training scenario through its lateral maneuvering motion (Lm²) algorithm. Lm² remains an innovative and patented motion drive algorithm which can be implemented as a software update on a new or existing FFS. The algorithm changes the behavior of the training device’s lateral channel to provide near-to-real reality asymmetrical maneuvering simulation.

“Lm²’s approach is to simulate the consequences of yaw and roll which are lateral accelerations. These are the accelerations (specific forces) you perceive on the flight deck while maneuvering,” Guy Talemans, SFA-D’s director, explained.

Asked to distinguish Lm² from the motion experience imparted in other FFSs, Talemans responded that the motion cues of the SFA-D algorithm are 1-to-1 in-phase with the visual cues. “What you see is what you feel. As a result, the pilots’ behavior in the simulator now matches his behavior in the real aircraft.” An additional benefit is less nausea by the training audience due to a mismatch between visual and motion cues.

Talemans continued, “As spurious cues in the lateral channel are reduced to a minimum, for the first time natural piloting techniques are really trainable in a FFS. Precision maneuvers such as visual sidestep, touch and gos or crosswind crabdecrab maneuvers are for the first time perfectly trainable in an Lm² equipped FFS. Crosswind handling is spectacularly

Above ODYSSEY 9 Business Jet simulator utilizing the Bosch Rexroth eMotion hardware.

Image credit: Opinicus.

For prospective customers considering the refurbishment option, the average cost of a complete refurbishment and upgrades, including positioning and pressure transducers, is about $(US)150,000 to 225,000, according to Kokalis. A statement of work for the maintenance action will typically include six actuators, as well as the mounting clevises. "For that you get actuators with all new moving parts - pistons, cylinder tubes, and other components, brought

close to reality. Lm² also enhances to a great extend all ground maneuvering by improving tiller feedback.”

Lm² is also expected to help learning audiences better respond to emerging community areas of interest – upset recovery or other "startle-like" events, by enhancing the realism of recovery maneuvers within the flight envelope.

Captain Filip Van Biervliet, SFA-D’s co-founder and an aerospace engineer, said the algorithm will also be a very valuable tool in upset recognition and prevention “which are as important as recovery.” He added, “We believe the efforts of academics and the industry should focus on more accurate simulation within the existing envelope rather than trying to extend the FFS’s envelope for stall, post stall and recovery.”

SFA-D reports a number of activities to increase the community’s use of Lm². Last July, Cathay Pacific Airways and SFA-D announced the signing of the first Lm² license agreement for the entire Cathay Pacific Airways / Hong Kong Dragon Airlines FFS fleet at Cathay Pacific’s Training Centre in Hong Kong.

With respect to product expansion in 2012, SFA-D is in discussions with two major aircraft manufacturers. Van Biervliet said his company is also in the process of implementing demonstration installations for non-disclosed major US and EU carriers. “Several demo and/or purchased licenses are planned to be installed in the following months.”

While SFA-D said it does not have any military implementations, there are two unspecified demands in deliberations.

to current technology - basically a new actuator," he emphasized.

Rather than repair or refurbish parts, the FFS operator may elect to replace the existing system with electric actuators.

Replacing an existing hydraulic motion system includes the complete reengineering of the simulator to correctly get the new mounting in place, and accurately emplacing the simulator. "Then the cost could be a million dollars or more," Kokalis explained.

Opinicus’s Takats added one trend of interest – his company’s customers find it is not cost effective to replace an existing hydraulic system with an electric system. “They instead opt to refurbish the hydraulics systems, and replace the legacy motion cabinet with a more modern PC-based motion cueing system. This is due largely to two factors: maintenance concerns due to obsolescence issues with electrical motion cabinet components; and the desire for our REALCue™ motion cabinets which include methods for running and plotting diagnostic, motion QTG (qualification test guide) tests, latency tests as well as ease of tuning and alignment.”

From the perspective of another OEM (Thales), its existing legacy motion systems can be upgraded to

Whilst Lm² already improves gusts and turbulence motion cuing, other enhancements are expected in 2012. SFA-D will add better buffeting simulation (upset recognition), high speed ground handling simulation (runway excursions), better turbulence models (bad weather operations), and correlating runway data between the visual system and the motion system (for ice patches, potholes and other hazards).

Customer feedback on the effectiveness of Lm² was furnished in one case from Captain John O’Halloran, a Cathay Pacific test pilot, who noted “the product provides improved initial onset cues of the lateral forces experienced by a pilot during almost all manoeuvers.” He continued, “During both normal and non-normal maneuvers, the resulting cues provided the pilot with more realistic and unambiguous illusion that the aircraft was maneuvering in accordance with the control inputs. The false washout cues which can be so prevalent and distracting during simulator flying are also noticeably reduced.”

Captain Russell Davie, the general manager of operations at Cathay Pacific, added, “We feel that the addition of the Lm² programming to our flight simulators enhances the realism of the simulation, particularly for maneuvers requiring precise manual flying, and helps to more closely recreate the sensations experienced on the actual aircraft. With that added accuracy, the value of the training time is increased and leads to improved transfer of skills. The result is a better-trained flight crew, which enhances the safety of our entire operation.” •

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One of the most important decisions in the life cycle of a full flight simulator is whether to refurbish components or buy new subsystem replacements.

Ann Arbor, Michigan-based Servo Kinetics Inc. has established itself as a major industry player in this sector for civil and military aviation trainers seeking to refurbish their motion systems. For more than 32 years, SKI has overhauled FFS actuators for hydraulic-based systems worldwide.

John Kokalis, the company’s manager for simulator support services, noted that from the perspective of a hydraulic motion system, the decision point to refurbish or replace the system generally arises when a FFS has more than 8 to 10 years of service. "The likelihood is moderate to high that key critical parts will have to be replaced, depending on type, cleanliness and condition of the oil, the duty cycle, and other issues. The parts requiring replacement may include the major moving parts; cylinder tube, piston, rod, and others."

When the customer selects the refurbishment option, SKI performs the maintenance in-house, using precision machine drawings which have been provided by OEMs.

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the company’s EM2K, and indeed, some retrofits have already taken place utilizing some of the customer’s existing parts to keep costs down.

“Facility interface change is minimal and there are no changes to boarding height or motion envelope. Space is freed up with the decommissioning of hydraulic plant rooms and services,” Kaeley said. “Thales is also looking at other simulator motion retrofit opportunities on a case-by-case basis. All the necessary skills are available in-house to advise customers on interfacing issues.”

Thales is expecting to see growth in the motion retrofit market, driven in part by the need for energy efficient systems to counter rising energy costs. “There is in excess of 80 percent energy saving using EM2K compared to the legacy hydraulic motion systems. If an operator is carrying out a simulator update to extend its life then a motion upgrade should always be a consideration,” Kaeley pointed out.

Energy cost savings are also on the mind of other system manufacturers. Jack van Hoek, sales manager for motion simulation technology at Bosch Rexroth, highlighted one attribute of his company’s EMotion-8000 and the EMotion-14000 system under development. The device is the “lowest energy consuming motion system for a given payload in the marketplace today by means of passive and maintenance-free static load compensation; fully compensating for the payload in neutral position,” he pointed out and added, “Under normal simulated flight conditions up to 50 percent of the required energy to move the simulator will be delivered by this unique feature.”

Seat Shaker Option Motion in a training device is an all-encompassing concept.

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described above which typically impart motion in strokes up to 62 inches along multiple axes.

One opportunity for the civil and military aviation training communities to gain efficiencies through the use of a common motion system, resides in Wittenstein Aerospace and Simulation’s VIBE Seat Shaker system. The product is primarily designed for mission trainers and has been developed to provide an accurate feeling of rotor vibrations to the pilot. The intent of the training device is to ensure that the learning audience is optimizing its sensory training experience by including another element that is very noticeable when flying a helicopter.

Scott Metcalfe, the company’s business unit manager, told CAT that the level of vibration felt by the pilot can be accurately replicated using the seat shaker system by feeding the aircraft model information to it via the included software through Ethernet.

Performance Beyond advancements in motion system hardware and life cycle management practices, is progress reported by Sunjoo K. Advani, Ph.D., the president of International Development of Technology b.v., to develop a yardstick by which the complete motion environment of a flight simulator can be objectively plotted and compared. Advani, who has collaborated on this project with Ruud Hosman, Ph.D., a pilot and motion expert, since 2006, summarized the significance of their efforts. “This means that, for the first time, the industry and the regulators would have a solid method of comparing how a simulator motion system performs in comparison to the airplane.”

Advani and Hosman’s Objective Motion Cueing Test (OMCT) methodology is to plot and compare the complete motion environment for all six degrees-of-freedom that both an airplane and its simulator counterpart undergo. This includes the three translational, three rotational degrees-of-freedom, and the four main cross-coupling effects between rotations and translations. When transforming from the airplane to the simulator, the outputs of the airplane math model and data package are transformed by the Motion Drive Algorithm (MDA), the motion platform hardware, and the computation processes (which introduce delays).

The cues that correspond correctly to the airplane should be given a high priority, while those which are a result of simulation “compromises” or hardware limitations, also become apparent.

In this way, both the desirable and the false motion cues can be quantified.

Hence, the OMCT permits the simulator manufacturer, the simulator user - and the regulator - to understand, compare and improve flight simulator motion cueing. ICAO has incorporated the OMCT into Amendment 3 of its 9625 Manual of Criteria for the Qualification and Testing of Flight Simulation Training Devices.

The final assessment of the OMCT is under way, with the participation of all the major simulator manufacturers, motion suppliers, the FAA, ICAO and researchers. The effort is organized through the Royal Aeronautical Society Flight Simulation Group, with Jim Takats as the Motion Task Team leader. “Finally, the industry will have the ability to identify the cues that matter to pilots, make meaningful improvements to simulators, and hopefully understand and accept why good motion is so important to pilot training.” Advani added.

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Mobile Learning

The Paperless Flightdeck The long-sought paperless cockpit may finally become a reality as mobile devices such as the iPad and Android tablets stimulate airlines to rapidly move towards electronic documentation.

Chuck Weirauch looks at how airlines are investing in the future.

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merican Airlines has recently become the world's first airline to gain FAA approval for the Apple iPad to be employed in the cockpit as an electronic flight bag (EFB) for all phases of flight. Flight training providers and several flight schools are offering ground school courses on the tablet computer, and an increasing number of companies are now providing more comprehensive aviation operations and training applications.

So it's easy to understand why both the National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) and the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) have declared 2011 as "The year of the iPad." And since some airlines consider the early adoption of this off-theshelf product as the first step towards completely paperless cockpits and allelectronic documents for flight operations and beyond, tablet technology seems to be well on the way to becoming a major operations and training player for the aviation industry in the future.

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According to Captain David Clark, who led the American Airlines effort to adopt the iPad as an EFB, the airline had been looking for two years for a technology that would be effective, but could not make a business case for what was then-current on the market. Once the iPad came out in early 2010, they knew they had the answer to this problem. Other than the obvious advantage, replacing the 45-to50-pound flight bag of aircraft manuals and airline operations documents pilots have to carry in the cockpit, being able to update all of those now-electronic documents quickly "with the push of a button" on the iPad is a major advantage over the traditional manual-page revisions every two weeks that improves safety and efficiency, Clark pointed out.

Currently just these documents and Jeppesen terminal charts are resident in the iPad that is strapped down in the American Airlines Boeing 777 cockpits with aviation-grade Velcro, but American is also looking at ways to include weather charts, flight plans, NOTAMS

United-Continental provided their pilots with iPads downloaded with Jeppesen's Mobile Flite Deck navigational application.

Image credit: United-Continental.

"and all the things we now have on paper" to be resident on the portable electronic device, Clark said. Of course, just as the airline needed to gain FAA approval for the iPad for flight operations, they will have to gain such FAA approval for each application. However, Clark expects that such approval would be much easier to obtain now since the breakthrough iPad approval the airline was granted from the regulatory agency.

American is also working to obtain FAA approval for the use of the iPad aboard its Boeing 737 fleet, since currently approval has only been granted for its 777 aircraft. Clark expects that the airline will gain such approval for all of its aircraft by the end of the year. However, American currently also does not have approval to use the iPad WiFi function to

Above Alaska Airlines was the first airline to get approval from the FAA to use the iPad.

"We wanted to take care of information management for the pilot, since once a month we revise our operational manuals," Freeman explained. "This is an information management crisis we are trying to solve as aviation operations become more complex. Going to electronic documents gives you a really powerful medium for change management.

The iPad is really beneficial for that. We also wanted to standardize our platform for information management, as well as training."

Such standardization is the key to a successful distributed training program as well as information management. One standard is HTML 5 for wireless connectivity and content delivery, which works fine on the iPad and other devices, Freeman said. Pilots now have access to the airline's online recurrent training courses with the iPad. Although aircraft manuals and flight documents are embedded in the device's memory for reference and review, for now the airline is keeping embedded training apps at a minimum.

This includes such things as flash cards and an ETOPS training app, since the iPad is primarily an operational device, he pointed out. "Our goal is to make the iPad into an information resource center for the pilot," Freeman said. "We are exploring apps that will allow us to build

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connect with the ground. Clark considers this to be the next challenge for the aviation industry. Once such wireless connection approval is granted, pilots would have online access to real-time aviation weather, flight plan updates and other essential data.

Use of the iPad in the cockpit by American pilots is voluntary, with the pilots providing their own iPads. However Clark reported that the pilots' response to the program "has been well above expectations, with pilots banging on my door" to get things moving forward.

"The bottom line is that the possibilities are endless, including for training, and just up to our imagination and innovation to employ the countless potential applications of tablet technology," Clark said.

Alaska Airlines is another airline leading the industry effort to gain the FAA approval of iPads and other tablet devices as cockpit EFBs. An informal coalition of airline pilots and managers, referring to themselves as the "Berlin Group" has formed to advocate such approval by the world's aviation regulatory bodies, and many airlines are in the process of working to gain those approvals.

So far, representatives of the Air Line Pilots Association have supported this effort. Boeing has suggested that pilots carry iPads. United-Continental purchased more than 10,000 iPads downloaded with Jeppesen's Mobile Flite Deck navigational application and provided them to pilots. Delta Air Lines is conducting a small-scale test of iPads in the cockpit this year; and 1Time Airlines worked with the South African Civil Aviation Authority to become what it claims is only the third airline in the world after American and Alaska Airlines to gain approval of the use of the devices as EFBs in the cockpit.

According to Alaska Airlines Captain Jim Freeman, who coordinates the airline's iPad initiative, his airline had also been looking for a paper flight bag alternative for years before the device entered the market. He described the effort as a "very interesting story in resistance to change and paradigm-shifting" in a Microsoft Windows-biased environment, along with the struggle to obtain FAA approvals, and encouraged interested airline parties to get top management support right from the beginning. Alaska Airlines began its first rollout of cockpit EFBs in December 2010.

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our entire paperwork pack electronically and just deliver it that way when we are done.”

Business Aviation When its customer Gulfstream began its initiative to provide electronic documentation for its new aircraft, FlightSafety International launched its own effort in this direction to support that customer.

Both parties then created an application for the iPad that would allow their customers to view both aircraft operations and training materials in pdf-file format on the device. According to Jon Pollack, FSI's Director of Courseware Support, all of the training documents that traditionally were provided in paper for FSI students can now be accessed via the iPad through the company's online Pre-Study Portal.

"The iPad app is one feature of the larger transition into electronic publications. Over time, we will move the majority of our documents into electronic publishing.” Pollack said. “Once you move into electronic documentation there is a tremendous differentiation and distribution that you can do with your product line. We're not there yet."

According to Ariel Landau, FSI's eLearning Operations Manager, the real intent of the iPad app was to provide a medium that was better than paper for their customers.

“New aircraft flight bag documentation now weighs in excess of 70 pounds and sometimes goes out of date within a month,” Landau pointed out. “You can quickly make these current with the iPad app, while enhancing the training experience. So you can provide a onestop shop to all the documentation and materials you would use for training. This technology allows us to provide updates to make sure that while you are training with us you get the latest and greatest on the iPad.”

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Currently most tablet computer applications are geared for business and general aviation pilots and operators, and both groups were among the earliest tablet technology adopters within the aviation community before commercial airlines. Now hundreds of such apps can be found on the Apple iTunes web site alone. Since CAT magazine covered this topic a year ago, the number of such

Above The use of tablet computers is taking off at Kansas State University Salina.

Image credit: Kansas State University.

apps and the number of their providers for both operations and training seems to have quadrupled. For example, AviatorApps.com lists more than 300 apps for the iPad, iPhone and iPod Touch.

Most recently, Sporty's Pilot Shop has added its Garmin 1000 app, which the company considers to be a complete avionics training course. Included are Garmin’s complete Cockpit Reference Guide, two G1000 Training Course Outlines (student & instructor), and a Garmin G1000 Computer Trainer download.

Several more flight schools have incorporated the use of such mobile devices into their curricula, mostly for initial and recurrent ground school training.

The Pilot Training College is one of the most recent, providing the iPad-based Padpilot learning system for its ATPL courses. PTC has all of its private, instrument, multiengine and commercial students purchase iPads on which to store a library of FAA documents and unique training courseware, including those provided by MS Aviation, according to that firm's marketing manager Mike Shiflett.

MS Aviation provides training apps for all pilot training categories for the iPad, as well as the iPhone and iPod. "A lot of the flight schools are employing tablet technology as early as

possible into their curricula, because the airlines are beginning to adopt the iPad and are getting it approved for all phases of flight," Shiflett said. "In a few short years, airlines will have transitioned to tablets, and students will see this as a necessary expense for training."

"This gives the students a distinct advantage over having books and paper because of the upgrade capability and other benefits," Shiflett continued. "Students know that this is the platform they will be using anyway, and that later is going to be a part of their job. The students can say to future aviation employers that they have been using an electronic flight bag device all through their training."

This spring, Kansas State University at Salina's Department of Aviation Technology will be providing its students with an e-kit bundle of pdf files for private and instrument ground school training downloaded to an iPad. Included in this bundle will be training apps developed and marketed by Aviation Supplies and Academics (ASA).

"This is a great way to increase safety and situational awareness and to introduce our students to technology they are more than likely to come into contact with as they move on to their careers," said Kansas State aeronautics professor and Assistant Chief Flight Instructor Tom Karcz. "This is just the next step for airlines and other industries as they move towards paperless operations." cat

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Company Profile

Beyond Training Facilities FlightSafety International has expanded its core competencies in the design, manufacture and support of training devices in the corporate aviation, military and commercial air transport markets. Marty Kauchak, Group Editor, provides insights on these and other developments within the FlightSafety portfolio.

While the firm annually trains 75,000 aviation professionals at its network of 43 training centers around the world, the preponderance of the company’s footprint is in North America and nearby regions. One part of the firm’s plan includes an expanded growth of commercial aviation and other sectors, in different regions, in particular in Asia.

FlightSafety will soon offer training

Above The new training system design and manufacturing facility in Broken Arrow, OK. Image credit: FlightSafety International.

with Azul Brazilian Airlines. The airline has acquired two Embraer 190 simulators from FlightSafety to date.

Expanding and Evolving FlightSafety is also enhancing the fidelity of its training devices to meet the demand of industry stakeholders for more rigorous pilot training. In addition to enabling the aircrews of increasingly automated new aircraft models to have more manual flight control time through critical periods of a mission, the company is seeking to support the same personnel as they train to scenarios beyond the current paradigm, by adding elements of unpredictability – such as upset recovery events.

As part of one strategy, the firm’s product portfolio continues to evolve beyond its flagship product – the full

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for the Gulfstream G450 and G550 aircraft in Hong Kong. The company’s new interchangeable full flight simulator is scheduled to enter service in 2012.

Rick Armstrong, FlightSafety’s vice president, Simulation, said that the company’s longer-term plan is to build a dedicated FlightSafety Learning Center in Asia. The Learning Center is expected to accommodate up to 10 full flight simulators and serve upwards of 3,000 pilots, technicians, flight attendants and dispatchers per year. This is a logical strategy, given the increase of corporate jets being delivered outside the US. Aside from this new activity in Hong Kong, “FlightSafety will continue to explore opportunities to provide training services and to sell flight simulators in key international markets,” Armstrong emphasized.

Another part of FlightSafety’s evolving business model includes an expanded partnership with the air transport community on the design, manufacture and support of training devices, along the lines of its growing partnership

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he FlightSafety brand is well known within segments of the military and civil aviation sectors. Beyond the personal contact that aspiring and seasoned aviators have with the company in its well-established network of civilian training centers and military support facilities, many of those individuals and their colleagues are unaware of FlightSafety’s expanding competencies beyond the walls of those learning centers. A confluence of events will allow FlightSafety to be more prominent throughout the two communities well into the future.

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flight simulator (FFS). The firm’s approximate 625 FFSs produced since 1978, includes a fleet of over 400 certified devices in service in its training centers, with the other devices located around the world in other civil aviation and military training sites. In addition to full flight simulators, FlightSafety has more than 100 other training devices in their global learning centers.

“Recently FlightSafety has increased its efforts to sell simulators into the commercial airline market. For decades, FlightSafety has been providing full flight simulators to the airlines and training organizations,” said Armstrong. FlightSafety has recently sold an Airbus A320 simulator into China that is expected to be delivered in the coming weeks and they also have another A320 in Broken Arrow that is expected to remain in house and be utilized as an educational device. A Boeing 737NG FFS is nearing completion and will soon be available.

The company also has several regional aircraft simulators underway and is preparing to develop and produce simulators for several new aircraft models including the Airbus A350 XWB. Damon Cram, the company’s director for Commercial Marketing, said that in an effort to meet the needs of the airlines today, his company is always creating innovative ways to increase efficiency and reduce costs for the airline market. “We’re talking about Level D full flight simulators, graphical flight deck simulators (GFS) and desk-top simulation.” FlightSafety’s Matrix training suite of products include desktop simulators used in classrooms, graphical flight deck simulators for instructor-led and self-paced learning, and the SimVu simulator flight de-briefing system. The Matrix training suite uses the same level-D data in each of its subsystems to insert FFS levels of fidelity throughout the learning continuum.

The company’s effort to increase the levels of fidelity in its training devices is most evident in motion and visual display subsystems. One of FlightSafety’s activities in the area of motion systems is to “reduce the subjectivity of motion and bring it into objectivity,” Armstrong said.

Using this strategy, real data drives the motion, allowing the motion to match the aircraft’s movements. “The way it is done today, you go through all of your work, and the engineers develop their

algorithms and then the pilot in the simulator subjectively adjusts it to what he thinks. We need to tune it to data.”

FlightSafety’s focus in the visual domain takes it beyond achieving a seamless rendering in its displays, and diversifying its systems beyond the ubiquitous 40-degree (vertical) by 180-degee (horizontal) field of view (FOV). In one case, FlightSafety is taking advantage of advancements in rigid mirror technology to increase the vertical attribute of a display up to 75 degrees. On the company’s horizon is a plan for a 310-degree (horizontal) system for a non-motion simulator. Similarly in early 2012, the firm will also deliver a visual display with a 225 degree horizontal FOV, as part of a rigid mirror system in an S-76D FFS with motion base.

The company’s S-76D FFS is but one response to the increase in training opportunities in that sector. Indeed, Armstrong noted, “We see a lot of opportunities in the helicopter market. FlightSafety has recently built a Eurocopter EC135 full flight simulator and is currently manufacturing simulators for the AgustaWestland AW139 and Sikorsky S-70i.”

Image Generator The popular and familiar VITAL X, COTS, PC-based image generator continues to evolve. The IG remains a standard component in FFSs used in the company’s training venues and by its

Above The company continues to develop the next generation of visual systems.

Image credit: FlightSafety International.

outside customers in the commercial airlines and military sectors. FlightSafety’s Cram noted that a major attribute of the IG is it renders physics-based weather effects across continuous, global satellite imagery “There is essentially no break in the visuals. You can fly from here to China in the simulator and you don’t have any gaps or breaks. That is certainly one area where the technology is excelling.”

Taking full advantage of the COTS graphics and other advanced technologies, FlightSafety’s VITAL X image generator is continually advancing. Recent deliveries have included real-time shadowing of terrain and moving objects, reflections and high definition textures.

VITAL’s HD textures allow resolutions to 1/8 of an inch. Newly developed unique 3-D modeling techniques give a VITAL X database the look and ‘feel’ of the real world. An example is the firm’s New York City area scenes which show an incredible display of realism. The New York environment includes every building and bridge in Manhattan and most of the surrounding boroughs and nearby Jersey shore. Several hundred thousand trees are modeled for additional cueing. The dynamic waterways

are animated with inland wave and ripple effects. The imagery will be used to support helicopter operator training, EMS training as well as regional and airline operations.

Armstrong summarized FlightSafety’s efforts on VITAL X during the last 18 months. In addition to integrating and refining sensors and NVGs and other applications, he pointed out other enhancements have benefited the fidelity in the rotorcraft segment.

Armstrong noted the demands of “helicopters that fly lower to the surface and aircraft, when they get close to the ground really, want to have an increased fidelity to match up the motion in the simulator.”

FlightSafety’s efforts in visual displays are supported by its entities in St. Louis (FlightSafety Visual Systems) and Austin (FlightSafety Displays). The resources of the former Glass Mountain Optics, acquired by FlightSafety in 2009, are used at the latter site.

The company’s second generation Display Management System is also bolstering the efficiency of its FFSs. The diagnostic system supports automated calibration and other processes in visual displays that heretofore have been resource intensive in terms of time, money and other attributes. “We’re always looking for ways we can improve reliability of the simulator and as a result, reduce cost. DMS is something we’re implementing on a FlightSafety-wide basis so our technicians won’t have to spend time re-calibrating the visual sys-

tem. We think we can bring this to the commercial air transport market where everything, as you know, is measured on throughput,” Cram said. Yet another internal FlightSafety R&D effort is designed to increase the fidelity of its icing models.

Game-Changing Facility FlightSafety’s new 375,000-sq. ft. training system design and manufacturing facility in Broken Arrow, is reshaping the competitive environment in this Simulation & Training sector. Most significant, the new building allows the company to improve production and gain other efficiencies across a training device’s life cycle.

“In our previous facility we were in four different buildings. Our people can now quickly and efficiently address whatever the issue is – we’re under one roof,” reflected Armstrong.

The new building’s layout complements the firm’s increased attention throughout the past few years to Lean manufacturing and other process improvements. “This allows us to put our simulators and our whole process in flow,” Armstrong explained. He further noted that while part of the facility houses simulator construction and assembly activities, other sections support engineering, IT and other professionals who make up its 700(+)-member workforce.

The facility also allowed FlightSafety to bring in-house some activities, such as the construction of honeycomb panels

for a simulator, which had been previously outsourced. These initiatives have permitted the company to strengthen its vertical integration process and save money and other resources.

The company is gaining early returns on investment from the new facility. As a result of improved production processes, the company has noted a decrease in discrepancies at the certification process of recently delivered training devices.

“These have been reduced by a significant factor” Armstrong said.

The building’s 19 product integration bays for FFSs and other large devices, and other capabilities will also allow the firm to remain in lock-step with the introduction of new fixed and rotary aircraft in the civil and military sectors. “We’re expecting to develop five new platforms this year. I believe we are the fastest in the world at developing a new platform.”

The facility’s current capacity will allow FlightSafety to be responsive to orders for new training devices that should arise from the projected deliveries of new airplanes from Airbus, Boeing and other OEMs. As recent as November 14, 2011, Boeing forecasted that airlines in the Middle East will need an estimated 2,520 airplanes by 2030. The forecast came as the region's carriers continue to surpass global air traffic and capacity growth rates.

With FlightSafety’s expanded capabilities one training device can be shipped from the new Broken Arrow facility approximately every eight days. cat

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Seen&Heard A compendium of current news from the civil aviation training industry, compiled and edited by the CAT editorial team. For the latest breaking news and in-depth reports go to www.halldale.com.

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Philippine Investment – Alpha Aviation Group Philippines (AAG Ph) is to expand its operations in the Philippines.

The company, which currently operates and maintains an Airbus A320 simulator at its four-bay simulator facility, is banking on the projected growth of the local commercial aviation industry.

The sector is currently driven by stiff competition among an expanding field of budget airlines, and an equally bullish regional market.

The simulator will provide AAG Ph the capability to deliver 6,000 hours of training annually, roughly enough to prepare 300 new pilots for certification.

Anchor Customer – flydubai will be the anchor customer for the new Emirates-CAE Flight Training Centre (ECFT), that is set to open in the third quarter of 2012 in Dubai’s world-class commercial park, “Dubai Silicon Oasis” for Boeing 737NG training.

Emirates-CAE Flight Training will provide comprehensive initial type-rating and recurrent training solutions for flydubai line pilots and cadets, including ‘wet’ training with ECFT instructors and ‘dry’ training in which flydubai instructors use ECFT simulators and other training tools. flydubai has announced plans to recruit more than 400 pilots over the next four years to meet the needs of its growing fleet and serve its rapidly expanding route network.

The new facility in Dubai Silicon Oasis will focus on airline pilot and aviation maintenance technician training for the types of aircraft popular among air carriers in the region. The facility will

Above PTC’s new B737 simulator during installation at Cambridge Airport, UK. Image Credit: Cambridge Airport.

initially house four full flight simulator bays with plans to expand to as many as 10 bays.

Sim Installation – Cambridge Airport in the UK has further consolidated its position as a dedicated east of England aviation hub as new tenant, Pilot Training College (PTC) has confirmed CAA approval on its Boeing 737 simulator.

Approval of the remaining professional pilot training courses is expected shortly.

The Boeing 737 NGW simulator is certified to FNTPII-MCC level and represents a substantial investment for Pilot Training College in the United Kingdom. PTC will also base a fleet of Piper Seminole aircraft at the airport that will enable training up to Multiengine Instrument Rating standard and

it expects to receive delivery of a FNPTII procedural trainer which it will use to train to MEIR standard.

The B737 simulator will be used to train to Multi-Crew Co-operation and Jet Orientation standard which is necessary in helping students transition to larger multi-crew turboprop and jet aircraft. PTC expects to train up to 300 pilots per year, a significant proportion of which will be streamed through the Cambridge Training Centre.

Panda Flight Academy – ANA Group has established panda Flight Academy to train licensed and employed pilots for changing the license of aircraft and for promotion, necessary for future expansion.

The Academy will have both B737NG and A320 simulators and is expected to be operational by May 2012.

The academy will be built upon ANA’s established experience as a provider of high-quality training with the cooperation of Pan Am International Flight Academy.

Airport in Barcelona, Spain. The training center’s goal is to train new pilots for world airlines. It plans to start operations with an Airbus A320 simulator and will grow progressively with new simulators, incorporating the models demanded by airlines.

The facilities will be equipped with state-of-the-art simulators developed by Indra that are qualified Level D by the State Agency for Air Security (AESA).

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produced using Russian off-the-shelf components.

Mexico Training Centre – CAE’s new business jet and civil helicopter training centre in Mexico, the first in the country, is open and ready for pilot training. New full flight simulators (FFS) for the Bombardier Learjet 40/45 aircraft and the Bell 412 helicopter were recently qualified to Level D-equivalent standards by Mexico’s Direccion General de Aeronautica Civil (DGAC).

The new training centre is located at Aeropuerto Internacional de Toluca, Lic. Adolfo Lopez Mateos, in Toluca, Mexico, which is easily accessible from Mexico City.

Sim Delivery – Flybe, Europe’s largest regional airline, has taken delivery of its second full flight simulator that enables its Training Academy in Exeter to offer a full range of pilot training, including recurrent and type training, for both the Bombardier Q400 and the Embraer 170/190 family of aircraft.

The new Level D E-Jet device, built by FlightSafety International, is convertible between both the Embraer 170 and 190 series and will be available to airlines for both wet and dry lease from March 2012. It is equipped with FlightSafety’s VITAL X visual system and electric motion and control loading technology.

New Training Centre in Spain – Indra is to start up an International Aeronautics Training Centre near El Prat

Kalitta Air is recruiting for the position of Flight Training Manager, responsible for training and managing staff of flight instructors, for its fleet of 747 aircraft.

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Above S7 Training has officially opened its training simulator complex.

Image Credit: Transas.

Qualifications: 747 Type Rating; Total Time 10,000+ in an FAR 121 Operation; Minimum 2000 in Type; Experience APD or TCE.

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The panda Flight Academy will be located at Higashi-kojiya, Ota-ku, Tokyo, and will be equipped with two simulator bays and 11 classrooms.

Philippine Training Centre – Cebu Pacific Air and CAE have signed a joint-venture agreement to establish an aviation training center for airlines in the Asia Pacific region. The joint venture will also be responsible for type-rating training of CEB pilots.

The aviation academy is scheduled to start operations in the third quarter of 2012 in Clark Freeport Zone, northwest of the national capital of Manila. The joint venture will initially cater to Airbus A319/320/321 series type-rating training requirements and will provide ‘wet’ instructor-led type-rating training for Cebu Air’s current and new-hire pilots.

Initial, recurrent, conversion and jet indoctrination training will be available to other Airbus operators.

The center will initially be equipped with two A320 FFSs with capability to expand by two additional simulators and is expected to provide training for other aviation personnel in the future, such as cabin crew, dispatch, ground handling personnel and cadets.

Simulator Complex – S7 Training Center has opened its new training simulator complex. The facility is intended to train flight and cabin crews to operate and fly An-148 aircraft.

The simulator complex consists of an An-148 full flight simulator, a flight and navigation procedure trainer and a cabin crew emergency trainer.

The full flight simulator was designed, developed and manufactured

by Transas. It proved to be the first Russian simulator at Level D and is

Support Agreement – CAE has signed a long-term support agreement contract with US Airways to assist the airline with simulator planning and engineering for six Airbus A320 and A330 full flight simulators in Charlotte, North Carolina and Phoenix, Arizona in the United States.

CAE’s new efficiency-oriented solution allows airline simulator training centres’ to improve schedule predictability in planning multi-year updates and reduce life-cycle training costs by lowering execution risks. The LTSA can include spares, repairs, updates, upgrades, technical training and other engineering support.

US Airways recently purchased a new A320 FFS from CAE for its Charlotte training facility. The simulator is currently undergoing FAA certification and is expected to be in service early next year.

FSTD Approval – Mechtronix Systems’ ATR 72-600 flight simulation training devices (FSTDs) at the ATR Training Centre in Toulouse, France, have received formal approval by the French Directorate General for Civil Aviation (DGAC) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). This is the first device to be qualified for this aircraft type anywhere in the world.

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The ATR-600 FFT X™ from Mechtronix is the result of a partnership between Mechtronix, ATR and Thales Avionics. A conversion kit to the 42-600 will soon further complement the device and it features a new generation 3-DOF actuated seat-based motion cueing system, high-end sound simulation system and FFS IOS tower.

The device can be upgraded to a FFS Level D according to customers’ needs and requirements, as it is equipped with a three-channel 200x40 degree collimated visual system as well as an EP1000CT image generator.

Ready for Training – CAE has received regulatory approval for its Boeing 737-800 full flight simulator (FFS) recently relocated to Prague. The device was qualified to JAA/EASA Level D JAR-STD 1A standards by the Civil Aviation Authority Czech Republic.

Sim Sales – CAE has sold four Level D full flight simulators (FFS) worth a total of more than C$50 million at list prices. ATR has purchased its second CAE FFS for its new -600 program. The world’s first FFS to replicate the ATR 42-600 and ATR 72-600 cockpits is currently being deployed at ATR’s training centre headquarters in Toulouse, France. The second FFS will be ready for training by the end of 2012.

A Q400 FFS is CAE’s first simulator sale to Ethiopian Airlines. The CAE 5000 Series FFS will incorporate a CAE Tropos-6000 visual system and be qualified to Level D standards. The device will be delivered by the end of 2012 to the Ethiopian Aviation Academy in Addis Abeba, Ethiopia.

An A320 and Boeing 737 FFS for Shanghai Eastern Flight Training Centre (SEFTC) are CAE 7000 Series Level D simulators with CAE Tropos-6000 visual systems. The devices will be delivered to SEFTC at its facilities at Shanghai Pudong Waigaoqiao Free Trade Zone in China in the first half of 2013.

King Air 350 Sim Approval – CAE has received US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Level D regulatory approval for its Hawker Beechcraft King Air 350 Pro Line 21 full flight simulator (FFS) recently installed at CAE SimuFlite at Dallas/Fort Worth International Airport in Texas.

The CAE 5000 Series FFS features the latest generation CAE Tro-

Above Approaching Hong Kong in the new King Air 350 FFS at CAE SimuFlite, Dallas/Fort Worth.

Image Credit: CAE.

pos™-6000 image generators, more than 200 CAE True™ airport databases, and a liquid crystal on silicon (LCos) visual display.

FFS Certification – The Asian ATR Training Centre’s (AATC) Thales Reality 7 A320-200 full flight simulator has received its French DGAC and Thai DCA Level D certifications and has commenced operations in its training centre at Suvarnabhumi Airport, in Bangkok, Thailand.

The FFS is equipped with an RSI XT4 200° FOV visual system, and represents the latest Airbus standard 1.7 with both IAE and CFM engines simulated.

The device also has simulated smoke, remote tablet IOS and an enhanced debrief system.

Sim Contracts in Asia – CAE has sold five Level D full flight simulators (FFS) to customers in Asia. The contracts are worth more than C$65 million. A CAE 7000 Series Airbus A320 and Boeing 737-800 FFS will be delivered to the Air China training centre in Beijing. Shandong Airlines will be taking delivery of a CAE 7000 Series Boeing 737 FFS at the Shandong Airlines training centre in Qingdao, China.

An A320 FFS has been sold to the new Cebu Pacific-CAE joint venture aviation training centre in the Philippines, and a CAE 5000 Series A320 FFS for Alpha Aviation Group will be delivered

to its training academy at Clark Freeport Zone in the Philippines.

Sound System Certification – ASTi has completed a full sound system update to meet FAA FAR Part 60 regulations on a Boeing Next-Generation 737 full flight. The simulator attained Level D and Ready for Training (RFT) certification in just eight weeks.

During recommissioning of the previously-idle simulator, engineers discovered its 90s-era sound system failed to meet current FAA Sound Qualification Test Guide (QTG) criteria. ASTi worked with the on-site engineering team to replace the substandard equipment with ASTi’s Telestra 4 development software and integrated Level D toolset. The contractor’s engineering team in Miami, Florida replaced all of the simulator’s original speakers with high-performance speakers to ASTi’s specification.

Alsim Simulator Sales – The International Aero Training Center (ITAC), a part of CFPNC Group, in Ben Slimane, Morocco, in partnership with Airline Companies of North Africa and the Middle East has chosen the Alsim AL200MCC to offer their students the ability to get training on an FNPT II MCC simulator.

Mount Royal University in Alberta, Canada, is integrating Alsim’s ALX into their aviation program. MRU’s choice for this generic simulator means ALX will have simulation training available for all kinds of aircraft training.

DA42 FSTD Qualification – Mechtronix Systems Inc. has announced the recent qualification of Safe Flight Academy’s (SFA) Ascent® Flight Trainer™ by the Tunisian DGAC.

The device is configured as a Diamond DA42 and is installed in SFA’s flight training facility based in Tunis, Tunisia. It is used to provide highly professional Instrument Rating (IR) training to their increasing number of ab-initio students.

Mechtronix’ Ascent® Flight Trainer™ is a training device closely representing the DA42 environment embedded in a larger cockpit allowing for a better simulation experience of various in-flight situations; it is also fitted with a combination of the Raster x/T image generator and FFS-like Instructor Operator Station software. The device features a 180 degree visual system that will provide its users with exceptional fidelity.

Cabin Crew Training Chinese Contract – Continuing their success in China, EDM have signed another contract with the Xian Feibao Airport Equipment Company to supply aircraft training equipment to a number of Chinese Airlines.

The contract includes the provision of EDM’s B737 evacuation training equipment to Xiamen Airlines and Hainan Airlines.

EDM have developed intelligent operating systems to replicate the aircraft cabin and provide Xiamen, Hainan and Sichuan Airlines with CEET motion flight control and flight scenario software, Instructor Operating Station (IOS) software and lesson planning, together with a cabin audio sound system and scene visual systems for doors and windows.

The auto-programmed lessons are referenced against the aircraft and regulatory authority standards, and allow instructors to create their own lesson plans. The development of these products future-proofs the equipment and allows the greatest scope for flexible training.

ing of more than 7,000 hours of full flight simulator capacity for the next three years.

FSC will provide customized training programs and capacity on B737-NG and B767 full flight simulators to fulfil ArkeFly’s training requirement, while the airline continues to expand its fleet of B737-NG and B767 aircraft in the Netherlands.

To ensure sufficient capacity for ArkeFly, FSC has installed a fourth B737-800 full flight simulator at its training center at Amsterdam-Schiphol Airport.

FTEJerez Graduates – FTEJerez has announced that course 100 has successfully graduated. The training provider’s 100th course represents an exceptional milestone of approximately 1,200 new pilots joining the ranks of commercial aviation, after having trained in the skies over Andalusia with Flight Training Europe.

In addition, course 100 had the first Qatar national, Nasser Al Darwish, to complete a JAA Air Transport License (ATPL).

JAA Approvals – Airline Career Academy (ACA) with training centers at Kissimmee Airport and Merritt Island, Florida, has been granted JAA training approvals for PPL, CPL and ATPL Theoretical Knowledge.

Formerly part of the Cabair Group and known as Orlando Flight Training, ACA has for many years successfully delivered a comprehensive range of both FAA and JAA courses.

Adam Brumbaugh, ACA’s director of Marketing commented: “We have always been a very busy flight school with 534 skills test taken in the last year alone. In the new year we will be launching our new fully structured Pro Pilot ATPL program with integrated flight and ground training conducted here in Florida and completed in Spain.”

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Boeing & IFTC Partnership – IFTC and Boeing have created a partnership to expand the capabilities available to airline customers in Istanbul. It combines the existing IFTC operations with the training expertise of Boeing Flight Services, resulting in a full range of training solutions that will address the growing demand for commercial airline pilots in the region.

“Boeing is always committed to providing our customers with quality training closer to their operating bases,” said Roei Ganzarski, chief customer officer, Boeing Flight Services.

Marty Van Veluw, CEO of IFTC commented, “Our shared vision of working closely with customers to provide training solutions at convenient locations will soon be realized in Antalya where IFTC is opening a new center in close cooperation with SunExpress in June 2012.”

Dassault Falcon Training – CAE is providing the world’s first pilot training course for the Dassault Falcon 900EX EASy II cockpit. CAE’s Falcon 900EX full flight simulator (FFS) at the North East Training Center in Morristown, New Jersey is the world’s first FFS equipped with the next-generation EASy II cockpit with Honeywell Primus Epic avionics suite. The CAE training course has received regulatory approval by the FAA and JAA/EASA. Training Partner – ArkeFly, the airline of TUI Netherlands, has selected Flight Simulation Company (FSC) as its exclusive partner for B737-NG and B767 training including the provision-

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Flightline Program Approval – Flightline Training Services has been granted Transport Canada approval for its Global Express and Dornier 328 Jet training programs. According to Flightline chief executive officer, Phyl Durdey, this marks the beginning Flightline’s entrance into the business jet market and, with the addition of these new aircraft, Flightline is now the largest privately owned training organization in Canada.

Increasing Market Share – EgyptAir Training Centre is increasing its market share in the MENA region through an expansion in training services to Qatar Airways and Al Afrikiya Airline.

Al Afrikiya A330 pilot training was re-launched in November 2011 after a stoppage due to the political situation in Libya. Meanwhile, Qatar Airways pilot training on the A330/A340 simulator is increasing in volume.

Training for Bahraini Pilots – The Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) in association with Tamkeen has awarded Pilot Training College (PTC) a contract which will conduct a pilot training course for Bahrainis. PTC will train up to one hundred and twenty new commercial pilots for GAA. Commenting on the new training agreement, Tim Shattock, CEO of Gulf Aviation Academy, said, “GAA are very pleased to partner PTC on this key Ab-Initio Pilot Training Programme.

Ensuring that we continue to train professional airline pilots for the future is a strategic priority for the airline industry in the MENA region in particular, which is GAA’s core market.”

JATS Cadet Program – JATS has announced that it has reached an agreement with Bahrain Air to continue conducting its fleet cadet training program at JATS’ QAIA facilities.

Under this program, JATS will provide A320 type ratings for Bahrain Air’s 2nd officers. Bahrain Air began its pilot training program at JATS at the end of 2007, and has since continued all its Airbus A320 training requirements for pilots, which includes A320 simulator recurrent training, command upgrade courses for A320, type rating CCQ courses utilizing JATS ground school instructors.

First Pilot Takes Off After Graduation Ceremony – The first airline pilot student for nearly twenty years has

graduated from Air Service Training’s flying school.

Based in Scone Aerodrome, AST, a wholly owned subsidiary of Perth College UHI, resumed commercial training a year ago, in partnership with ACS Flying School. The course lasts 60 weeks and includes basic flying training, airline pilot ground school followed by advanced flying training including blind flying on instruments alone.

Flight Training Provider – Aer Lingus has announced its decision to appoint FTEJerez as the official flight training provider for 20 cadet pilots.

Captain Davina Pratt, Director of Flight Operations at Aer Lingus, said, “This is an exciting an fantastic opportunity for these 20 young cadet pilots as they embark on their training with FTEJerez and look forward to becoming pilots and future Captains with Aer Lingus. Aer Lingus and FTEJerez have benefitted from a very positive and professional working relationship in the past, with many previous cadet classes now flying our modern Airbus medium and long haul aircraft today throughout our entire route network.”

The first eight cadets will join the next February course.

Maintenance Training EASA Approval – FlightSafety International’s Dassault Falcon 7X Theory Maintenance Initial Course has been approved by the European Aviation Safety Agency. The course is available at FlightSafety’s Learning Centers in

Above Johnathan McKeown, the first AST-trained airline pilot student for nearly twenty years.

Image Credit: AST.

Dallas, Texas and at the Paris-Le Bourget airport in France.

The 20 day course is designed to meet the training requirements of technicians with limited experience maintaining the Falcon 7X aircraft.

Areas covered include component location, function, normal system operation, routine servicing, minor troubleshooting and repair of aircraft systems.

Course materials are displayed on high resolution projection systems. This includes an innovative single screen presentation of full flight deck simulation at each technician’s learning station.

Simulator training is conducted outside normal class hours, to demonstrate normal systems operation, and reinforce classroom training on systems controls and indications.

Maintenance Students Graduate – Aviation Australia has celebrated the graduation of 147 aircraft maintenance engineering students in a ceremony held at Aviation Australia’s Brisbane facilities.

The majority of graduates completed their Institutional Certificate IV in Aeroskills across three trades - Mechanical, Avionics and Structures. As well as the Queensland-based Aeroskills students, the graduates included students from Malaysia, China, India, South Korea and Brazil who had successfully completed

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their Diploma of Aircraft Maintenance Engineering.

Already, there are more than 70 aircraft maintenance positions on offer across industry from organisations such as Qantas, Jetstar, Alliance Airlines, Etihad Airways, Boeing Defence Australia, BAE Systems, Australian Aerospace, Asia Pacific Aerospace, Skywest and Heliflite looking at this year’s graduates for possible recruits.

Falcon Maintenance Training – A Falcon maintenance training program that blends CAE simulation-based instruction with practical aircraft experience at Dassault’s factory is completing its second year in Bordeaux, France.

The EASA-approved four- to fiveweek B1/B2 training program began in January 2010 and has trained more than 200 Falcon 7X, Falcon 900EX EASy and Falcon 2000EX EASy technicians from around the world for Falcon operators, the Dassault front-line Customer Service Team and maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facilities.

The program features instructors with more than 25 years average experience, CAE Simfinity™ simulation-based multi-screen classrooms, 360-degree virtual tours of the cockpit, aircraft cabin and service bays, and a CAE Simfinity Integrated Procedures Trainer. Students also visit the Dassault factory to visualize aircraft during early production stages and close to final certification, Dassault Aviation offers a two-week follow-on EASAapproved practical training course leading to a type-rating maintenance certification.

A320 Maintenance Training – Swiss AviationTraining (SAT) has obtained EASA Part 147 approval from the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation to provide maintenance training for the Airbus A320 aircraft family.

SAT will conduct its new A320 technical training on a virtual maintenance trainer (VMT). As well as utilizing the innovative VMT technology, SAT’s new maintenance training will offer added value to the customer in terms of course duration and enhanced student monitoring and assessment.

Aviation Accident Prevention – The number of aircraft accidents resulting from human error has increased from 60% – from 20% to 80% – in the past 50 years, according to data collected by the

Above Maintenance technician training for Dassault Falcon aircraft systems in Bordeaux, France.

Image Credit: CAE.

International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO). Up to 15% of these accidents are attributed to mechanical or engineering faults.

With airlines updating their fleets and adding new aircraft, the already heavy workload for aviation technical personnel keeps increasing, as does the need highly qualified technical personnel. Deputy Head of FL Technics Training Dainius Sakalauskas says “Highly

Commercial Aircraft Sales December 2 2011 - January 26 2012 Aircraft type

Number Operator/Buyer

A320 14 Volaris

A320 18 Avianca Taca A320neo 30 Volaris A320neo 8 Transaero Airlines A320neo 33 Avianca Taca A320 100 Norwegian A33-2000F 2 Etihad

100 Norwegian B737Max B737-800NG 22 Norwegian B777-F 2 Etihad B787-9 25 KLM B787-9 10 Etihad B787-9 4 ALC

CS100 10 (5 opt.) PrivatAir

4 Precision Air Services ATR 42-600 ATR72-600 1 Precision Air Services ATR 72 4 (2 opt.) GECAS ATR72-600 5 Skywest Australia

qualified specialists are essential for maintaining safe and reliable aviation services. A single faulty part, a missing component or an unperformed necessary check may lead to an irreversible outcome. Not only do technical maintenance errors affect aviation safety but they may also bring considerable financial losses to airlines.”

According to Sakalauskas, investments in new technologies and specialized labor force development would play a big role in minimizing errors arising from human factor and ensuring a decreasing number of accidents resulting from faults made by technical personnel.

Training Available to Individuals – Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) has made a wide selection of training offerings available to individual participants and has posted more than 250 courses and seminars on its website.

The portfolio of open courses and seminars is targeted to small and medium-sized companies that have difficulties arranging their own in-house courses for a small numbers of employees as well as individuals looking to improve their knowledge and qualifications.

The courses offered range from basic technical training and aircraft type training to courses from the area of aviation industry solutions.

Helicopter Training Malaysia Training Academy – AgustaWestland will be opening a new

Q400 Courseware – Sky Regional is to use Avsoft’s Dash8-Q400 pilot training course and customized General Subject Matter courseware in conjunction with its Learning Management System (LMS).

Sky Regional will also use Avsoft’s new Block Hour licensing program.

B787 CBT Delivery - CPaT has completed delivery and customer acceptance for the new B787 initial program to a major US airline. The Level 3 interactive training program consists of 92 individually paced, interactive computerbased training modules available for PC, Mac, and iPad. The B787 Initial program covers all aircraft systems including new features such as the Head-Up-Display (HUD),

Flight Deck Display Management, Vertical Situation Display (VSD), Electronic Flight Bag (EFB) and the emulated CDU. WBT for iPad Generation – Starting from the first quarter of 2012, infoWERK will offer some of its training products on iPad and Android. The company is developing a clear and clean solution to offer e-learning contents together with documentation and test features for customers.

According to Hansjörg Lotter, infoWERK CEO, the move will transform the web-based training into a more innovative, flexible and portable delivery platform. At the same time it offers a perfect form of interactivity to complement the students’ growing knowledge and will provide a higher learning experience, all from one single device.

Courseware Supply – Wild Geese Aviation (WGA) is now using Avsoft as its sole provider for pilot training courseware. WGA provides training for first time pilots as well as veterans going through initial or recurrent type rating training.

Avsoft will supply WGA with training courses for all aircrafts in their fleet including the A320, B737-700, B737-800, B737-700 with -800 differences, B737300/500, B737-400, B737-300/500 with

-400 differences, and ATR42-500.

Embraer 145 Pilot Training – Avsoft has upgraded its Embraer 145 pilot training course with new graphics, updated narration (read through by professional broadcasting artists), and eye-catching animations.

Shows & Events Latin America Aviation Safety Symposium – Baines Simmons-Americas (BSA) hosted its first Latin Americas Safety Symposium in November in Lima, Peru. Hosted at the Peruvian Corporation of Commercial Airports and Aviation Inc. (CORPAC) facilities, the one-day event facilitated dialogue on the topic of integrating Fatigue Risk Management Systems (FRMS) into Safety Management Systems (SMS).

The event was attended by more than 60 regulators and operators representing 17 organizations from four countries in the South American region. Substantive discussions were held on the need to harmonize aviation regulations with civil laws to facilitate open event reporting, the challenges to safety from the region’s rapid growth in aviation and the risks of high elevation operations.

As a result of the Symposium, BSA has been invited by the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) South American region to participate in upcoming meetings and working groups to help formulate FRMS policy and means of compliance with impending rules.

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Above L to R: BSA South American representative Raul Castillo; Chris Hallman, BSA Director; and Freddy Nunez, Peruvian DCAG SMS Manager.

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AgustaWestland Training Academy (AWTA) in Malaysia in January 2012.

The company also plans to make an AW139 full flight simulator (FFS) will be available in Malaysia in 2013, the first to be located in Asia.

The AWTA Malaysia will offer a range of courses for the AW109 Power, GrandNew and AW139 helicopters initially and expects to expand this to cover new types such as the AW169 and AW189 in the future. In 2012 over 20 courses will be available including type rating ground courses, general familiarization type training courses and airframe maintenance type training courses.

The Training Academy will be located at Kuala Lumpur’s Subang Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport.

FSTD Certification – Era Training Center’s first AW139 flight simulation training device (FSTD) has been FAA certified as a Level 6 FSTD. This certification will allow helicopter operators to conduct AW139 training in ETC’s device under CFR Part 61 or train in the FSTD with their own instructors.

Together with the addition of the FSTD, ETC has expanded its Lake Charles, Louisiana facility by over 30%, with two new simulator bays, briefing/ debriefing rooms and additional office and classroom space.

AgustaWestland, as prime contractor, partnered with Frasca International, Inc. to support the development and production of the FSTDs. Frasca built the two FSTDs currently offered for training programs by ETC.

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English Language Training New ETA Test Centre – Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) and Emery-Roberts (ER) have launched a new English Test for Aviation (ETA) test centre at OAA’s training facility at Hong Kong International Airport.

Developed in 2010, ETA provides for both direct and semi-direct testing of English speaking and listening skills and is designed to comply fully with all ICAO guidance on language testing within aviation.

The new ETA centre, managed by OAA with the support of ER, will deliver ETA services to aviation customers across Asia Pacific. A team of five examiners - three English language experts and two aviation subject matter experts have successfully completed the intensive examiner training session which culminated in a site visit by representatives of the Hong Kong Civil Aviation Department (HKCAD).

Now fully approved by HKCAD, ETA testing services for corporate and individual customers commence this January both at the OAA training centre and at the customers’ preferred location.

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FlightSafety International – Dr. Nidal Sammur has been promoted to Director of Engineering for the company’s simulation facility in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma. He replaces Ron Jantzen who retired from the company in December 2011.

Sammur joined FlightSafety in 1992 at the Broken Arrow facility and has held a number of positions of increasing responsibility in Engineering since then, most recently serving as Staff Scientist.

Danny Robayo has been promoted to assistant manager of FSI’s Learning Center in Teterboro, New Jersey. Danny joined FlightSafety at the Teterboro Learning Center in 1991 and has held a number of positions including pilot and maintenance training instructor for the Dassault Falcon 10, Falcon 50 and Falcon 50EX aircraft, and Program Manager for the Falcon 50 and 50EX training program. Danny most recently served as the Center’s Director of Training.

KLM Engineering & Maintenance – Antonius (“Ton”) Dortmans has been appointed Executive Vice President of

KLM Engineering & Maintenance, succeeding Peter de Swert. Mr. Dortmans priorities for the coming months will be, “to maintain the customer appreciation at the level our customers are expecting of AFI KLM E&M and also to continue our good track record on operational performance. Additionally we need to continue to grow our capabilities, develop new repairs and assure our worldwide presence.”

Baines Simmons - Stephen Myall has been contracted to augment Baines Simmons consulting arm as well as to further enhance the team that the company provides to resource the highly successful Isle of Man Aircraft Register.

Steve brings a wealth of experience to the company, most recently working as an airworthiness surveyor with the UK Civil Aviation Authority. His 40 years in the aviation industry also includes working in acquisitions, maintenance, regulation and continuing airworthiness management. cat

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