Sun, Feb 19, 2012
Full-Motion Sim Is Only One For The Type In World
Metro Aviation has signed an agreement with American Eurocopter
to use the AS350 Flight Simulator as part of the operator’s
pilot training program. American Eurocopter says it owns the only
AS350 Level B full motion flight simulator in the world.
“We are strong advocates of simulator training for EMS
pilots,” said Mike Stanberry, President of Metro Aviation.
“In fact, we have been using simulator training for all our
pilots for the last three years. The availability of the AS350
simulator will allow us to put our AStar pilots into the actual
model they fly and practice emergency procedures that you
couldn’t perform in a real airframe.”
The arrangement with American Eurocopter is a dry lease
agreement with Metro Aviation providing its own instructor pilots.
The operator has a long-standing relationship with American
Eurocopter, whose helicopters represent the core of their
fleet.
“We continue to add new Eurocopter helicopters to our
fleet and have accumulated training credits, which we are utilizing
with this program,” continued Stanberry. “The fact that
this was a full motion simulator was very important to us. We are
also going to take advantage of the additional capabilities this
simulator offers such as training for inadvertent instrument
(meteorological) conditions (IIMC).”
American Eurocopter has developed a new IIMC course which is not
model-specific. Metro Aviation pilots will go through IIMC
training, practice system failures, and perform emergency
procedures as part of their time in the simulator. Preparations for
the program are underway, with the first instructors arriving in
Grand Prairie this week. At first, theAS350 simulator will be used
for recurrent training, but Stanberry expects it will be used for
some initial pilot training as well.
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