Helisim broke ground on a new 23,000-square foot helicopter pilot and maintenance crew training center in Grand Prairie, Texas. The new center, at the Airbus Helicopters Inc. campus, represents a major international expansion of Helisim. The company will oversee operations at the new simulation center, and the first stage...

As the large helicopter-driven offshore oil and gas market treads water, rotorcraft training companies are focusing more on smaller aircraft favored by medical, rescue and law enforcement operators. Rick Adams offers a look through the chin windows.

  The inaugural Simulation and Training for Resilience and Safety Symposium 2019 (STRS) will take place 26-27 March 2019 at No. 4 Hamilton Place, London, U.K. Through the sharing of information and ideas, this brand new event aims to encourage innovation and build partnerships in training and simulation across safety-critical...

  Several aviation education organizations in China selected Frasca International to provide flight training devices for their programs this year. New orders for 2018 include a Level 5 Archer Flight Training Device (FTD) for Chengdu Fanmei Aviation Industry Co, in Chengdu, Sichuan; a Cessna 172 Level 5 FTD for Hebei...

Reiser Simulation and Training’s Airbus H145 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) is now operational at the Norwegian Competence Centre Helicopter (NCCH) in Stavanger, Norway, which provides training for Norwegian Air Ambulance Helicopter Emergency Medical Services (HEMS) pilots and crew members. The training device received CS-FSTD(H) EASA FFS Level D certification last...

Reiser Simulation and Training (RST) received EASA Level D Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) qualification for the H145 it installed at Norwegian Competence Centre Helicopter (NCCH) in Stavanger, Norway last month. RST developed the FFS that includes a full NVIS-compatible replicated H145 helicopter cockpit and simulated Helionix® Step 2 avionics suite. The...

Rockwell Collins is providing Coptersafety, a supplier of commercial rotary wing training, with three turnkey integrated Level D helicopter, dome-based complete visual systems including multiple EP-8100® image generators; 4K ultra-high resolution; liquid-crystal-over silicon (LCoS) laser-illuminated projectors; a 240 degree by 80 degree motion-compatible dome display; night-vision goggle capability; and additional...

Group Editor Marty Kauchak asked four community subject matter experts to reflect on the continued evolution of flight training devices and respond to the question: Is the technology in non-motion devices sufficiently advanced to permit compelling price/performance ratios?