Mon, Dec 05, 2011
Five-Year Support Program Helps Airline Maintain Highest Levels
Of Flight Crew Training
A a five-year Long-Term Support Agreement (LTSA) has been signed
by CAE and US Airways through which CAE will assist the airline
with simulator planning and engineering for six Airbus A320 and
A330 full-flight simulators located in the United States in
Charlotte, North Carolina and Phoenix, Arizona.
CAE's new efficiency-oriented solution enables airline simulator
training centers 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. The CAE
LTSA features price protection that covers all included updates and
services for the duration of the agreement.
"This innovative program will enable more effective use of
customer and CAE engineering management expertise, minimize
training schedule impacts from necessary simulator updates, and
save significant related costs," said Jeff Roberts, CAE's Group
President, Civil Simulation Products, Training and Services. "The
LTSA program can establish a long-term horizon for managing
simulator support, including a predictive planning environment and
roadmap. It leverages the technology advantage of CAE's
systems-level design and manufacturing experience as well as supply
chain efficiencies from working with hundreds of airline customers
and our own global network of more than 160 simulators."
"Our flight simulators are the backbone of our safety-oriented
training program, and we employ them at high-utilization rates. We
routinely update them over their life cycle to reflect aircraft
equipage changes and regulatory-driven modifications to maintain
the highest levels of flight crew training," said Capt. Bob
Skinner, Managing Director, US Airways Flight Training &
Standards. "The Long-Term Support Agreement combines our knowledge
base with CAE's data for simulator fleets worldwide to establish an
optimal, integrated life-cycle plan for our equipment that will
help us control our costs, maximize our training schedule and
improve safety by providing our crews with the most realistic
training scenarios possible."
US Airways recently purchased a new A320 full-flight simulator
from CAE for its Charlotte training facility. The simulator is
currently undergoing FAA certification and is expected to be in
service early next year. The move comes as the airline replaces its
fleet of Boeing B737-300 and -400 series aircraft with new Airbus
A320 family equipment by the end of 2014.
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