CAE Will Deliver Sims For Aircraft Ranging From A380 To Phenom
100
Four Level
D full-flight simulators (FFS) have been ordered by customers in
Southeast Asia, the Middle East, Eastern Europe and Australia,
according to a news release Tuesday from CAE. The four FFSs
include: an Airbus A380 to Thai Airways International, an Airbus
A330 to Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA), an Airbus A320 to Russian
aviation equipment company NITA (New Information Technologies in
Aviation) on behalf of the Ministry of Transport of Russia, and an
Embraer Phenom 100 to CAE Global Academy Perth, a joint venture
flight school with China Southern Airlines located in Australia.
CAE also signed contracts with various customers for updates of
CAE-built simulators.
The contracts are worth about $68.5 million at list prices, and
bring the total number of FFS sales that CAE has announced to date
during fiscal year 2012 to 15.
"The Thai Airways, Gulf Aviation Academy and NITA Russia
contracts reflect CAE's continued expansion into emerging markets
worldwide. The new Phenom simulator in Perth demonstrates our
commitment and growing capability to meet the demand for
well-qualified ab initio pilots through the CAE Global Academy
network," said Jeff Roberts, CAE's Group President, Civil
Simulation Products, Training and Services. "We are also encouraged
by the increasing number of customers who are leveraging CAE's
extensive technical expertise to update their simulators with
enhanced training capabilities."
This is CAE's first FFS sale to Thai Airways International, the
national carrier of the Kingdom of Thailand. The CAE 7000 Series
A380 FFS will be delivered in 2013 to Thai's flight simulator
facility at the airline's headquarters in Bangkok.
GAA, on the other hand, has ordered its fourth CAE simulator.
The new CAE 7000 Series A330 FFS will incorporate a CAE
Tropos(TM)-6000 visual system, and will be delivered in mid-2012 to
GAA in the Kingdom of Bahrain.
In russia, CAE has been contracted by NITA to deliver a CAE 5000
Series Airbus A320 FFS with CAE Tropos-6000 visual system to the
Federal Air Transport Agency, part of the Ministry of Transport of
Russia, for cadet training at the Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation
School (UHCAS). The simulator will be delivered to Ulyanovsk in
mid-2012.
The Embraer Phenom 100 CAE 5000 Series FFS will be the first
Phenom simulator delivered to an ab initio flight school. The
former China Southern West Australian Flying College (CSWAFC) is
capable of training nearly 300 cadet pilots annually and is part of
the CAE Global Academy network of 11 flight schools which have the
capacity to train up to 1,800 new pilots each year.