Training is often the glanced-over or even forgotten part of US direct commercial sale and foreign military sale contracts. Such omissions fail to highlight top-notch training products and services OEMs and their S&T industry partners bring to operators and maintainers.
Jim Viola, President and CEO, HAI, presented his ‘State of the Industry’ to kickoff HAI HEL-EXPO 2023 in Atlanta, Georgia. Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides highlights of the association leader’s remarks.
Indra has been awarded 19.2 million euros
for the development and supply of a new Full Mission Simulator for an advanced helicopter of the Armed Forces, the NH90, for the Spanish Air and Space Force.
After more than 60 years in business, Enstrom Helicopter Corporation, located in Menominee, Michigan, is filing for Chapter 7 bankruptcy due to severe financial difficulties.
To strengthen Canadian Coast Guard pilot training, the Honourable Bernadette Jordan, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard, and Mario Pelletier, Commissioner, Canadian Coast Guard, welcomed the delivery and acceptance of a CAE-built helicopter simulator.
Inzpire’s helicopter Mission Training Device was installed at the European Defence Agency’s Helicopter Training Centre at Sintra Airbase in Portugal and was officially inaugurated during a joint visit by Portuguese Defence Minister João Gomes Cravinho and others.