SIMULATION * TRAINING

NEWS IN BRIEF
CONTINENTAL UPGRADE
Continental Airlines has
ordered two MaxVue Plus
visual systems from CAE
Electronics to upgrade its
flight simulators. It already
has MaxVue Plus-equipped
Boeing 737-700 and 777-200
simulators on order.
ALLIANCE AGREEMENT
KLM Flight Crew Training
Centre and Northwest Aero-
space Training (NATCO)
have signed an alliance agree-
ment under which NATCO
will market training on both
organisations' simulators.
Norway's Braathens is expec-
ted to join the network and
talks are under way with other
Northwest/KLM partners.
FROM SEATTLE TO MIAMI
FlightSafety Boeing Training
International is moving a
Boeing 767-300ER simula-
tor to its Miami, Florida, cen-
tre, from Seattle. Its first
training contract in the new
location is with LanChile.
FedEx p r e p a r e s f o r
Lo a d m a s t e r t r a i n i n g
F
EDEX HAS SELECTED Pan
Am International Flight Aca-
demy to provide training for the
Ayres LM200 Loadmaster. The
Academy will build a training cen-
tre at FedEx's Memphis, Ten-
nessee, hub to house a Level D
full-flight simulator for the turbo-
prop-powered feeder freighter.
FedEx has 50 Loadmasters on
order and 50 more on option. The
twin-turbine, single-propeller air-
craft is scheduled to enter service
widi die express parcels carrier by
the end of 1 9 9 9 .
Leesburg, Virginia-based Intelx
will produce die Loadmaster simu-
lator, incorporating an aerody-
namic data package to be produced
by Kohlman Systems Research.
Pan Am International Flight
Academy is an independent train-
ing company based in Miami,
Florida, where it operates a fleet of
15 simulators as well as an air traffic
control training facility.
USAF s t r e a m l i n e s t r a i n i n g b i d s
GRAHAM WARWICK/WASHINGTON DC
T
HE US AIR FORCE is
preparing to make the first
award under a contracting vehicle
designed to streamline die acquisi-
tion of training systems.
The air force has qualified five
companies to bid for contracts
worth up to a total of $486 million
to be let over the next five years.
Boeing, Lockheed Martin and
Raydieon Systems have been pre-
qualified to bid, as have two small
simulation companies, Camber
and Intelx. Award of die first con-
tracts under die Training Systems
Acquisition programme has been
held up, however, by a protest from
a losing bidder.
The aim of the programme is to
shorten delivery timescales for
production, upgrading and sup-
port of flight simulation systems,
in part by paring down die num-
ber of contractors qualified to bid.
The so-called "indefinite-deliv-
ery/ indefinite-quantity" contract
vehicle covers a substantial por-
tion of the USAF's planned expen-
diture on training devices, visual
systems, courseware, student
training and logistic support to
June 2006.
Industry believes that the pro-
gramme could be expanded even-
tually to include operation of the
air force's aircrew training systems,
contractor-run "schoolhouses"
which train crews for specific air-
craft types, typically transports and
tankers. If this occurs, then the
total value of the Training Systems
Acquisition programme will be
increased significantly.
W i c a t a d d s B o e in g t o t r a i n i n g d e v i c e p o r t f o l i o
W
ICAT SYSTEMS has seen
sales of its flight training
devices increase as airlines move to
reduce the amount of expensive
full-flight simulator time used for
transition and recurrent training.
Recent sales of flight manage-
ment and guidance system trainers
(FMGST) for Airbus types include
six to Northwest Aerospace
Training (NATCO, A320), two to
Sabena Airlines (A320 and
A330/A340), and one each to Aer
Lingus and Mexicana (both A320).
NATCO will be the first to take
FMGSTs with dual-sided capabili-
ty, says Wicat. Previous versions
allowed only one side to be active,
with the other operating as a slave.
The dual-sided FMGST has active
and independent displays and con-
trols for captain and co-pilot.
Wicat has introduced a similar
range of flight management system
trainers for Boeing types, including
former McDonnell Douglas prod-
ucts. The first of the new devices,
for the Boeing 747-400, has been
installed at Philippine Airlines.
Meanwhile, the Lindon, Utah-
based company is providing simu-
lated cockpit components to CAE
Electronics for five flight training
devices sold to Delta Air Lines,
for the Boeing 737-200,737-700
and 757-200.
Lo c k h e e d Ma r t i n t o t e s t m is s il e w a r n i n g s y s t e m s in l a b o r a t o r y
L
OCKHEED MARTIN is to
modify the US Air Force's
Electronic Warfare Evaluation
Simulator (AFEWES) to allow
laboratory testing of missile warn-
ing systems. The AFEWES is a
"hardware-in-the-loop" simulator
which is used to evaluate the effec-
tiveness of aircraft self-protection
systems and techniques.
The modified simulator will be
used for dynamic testing of the
Lockheed Martin/Boeing F-22's
ultraviolet missile launch detector
and the USAF/Navy infrared
Common Missile Warning System
- both under development by
Lockheed Martin Sanders.
The sensors will be mounted at
the centre of a I2m-diameter
dome, on a three-axis flight table
that simulates the aircraft. High-
fidelity images of missiles in flight
will be projected on to the dome, to
be detected and analysed by the
sensors. The simulation is expected
to be on line by August 1 9 9 9 .
The AFEWES is located at
Lockheed Martin's Fort Worth,
Texas, plant and operated by the
company for the air force. The labo-
ratory houses real surface-to-air mis-
sile seekers, which are fed real aircraft
tracking data from a weapons range.
The system simulates the missile fly-
out and evaluates whether the coun-
termeasures employed would have
been effective.
The laboratory will be used also
to support integration of the elec-
tronic warfare suite for South
Korea's F-1 6s.
PZL s e t t o c o m p l e t e s i m u l a t o r u p g r a d e
POLAND'S ETC-PZL AEROSPACE Industries expects to com-
plete the modernisation of its full-flight simulator for the PZL-
Mielec 1-22 Iryda military trainer by mid-September. At the same
time, the 1-22 is being upgraded to the revamped M-96 standard
for the Iryda. The simulator has been located at the Polish Military
Institute of Aviation Medicine since completion in 1989. It uses
the front fuselage and cockpit of the prototype 1-22. Upgrades
include a new Silicon Graphics image generator, 150 x 30 visual
system, navigation instruments and motion platform feedback
control system.
28 FLIGHT INTERNATIONAL 19 - 25 August 1998