Global Aviator April 2018 / Vol. 10 / No. 4 9
for Graphical Flight-Deck Simulators
and other training and service areas.
Comprehensive training
programmes in Columbus are
available for aircraft manufactured by
Bombardier, Embraer, Dassault, and
Textron to commercial, government
and military organisations. The
company provides training each year
to pilots, technicians and other aviation
professionals from the United States,
Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, France,
Japan, the Netherlands, Norway, South
Africa and the United Kingdom.
Training at FlightSafety
International is not just about time
spent on simulators. They provide
training for pilots of fixed and
rotary-wing aircraft, maintenance
technicians, flight attendants and
dispatchers, online, on location and
at convenient Learning Centers.
Training programmes
FlightSafety supplies mission-critical
training programmes and equipment
to military, law enforcement and
government flight crews. The company
also partners with more than 40 national
governments who entrust pilots
trained by FSI with the safety of their
diplomats and heads of state. A recent
addition to the training programmes
are the more than 100 courses approved
for education benefits by the US
department of Veterans Affairs at 11
Learning Centers across the country.
FlightSafety is the exclusive
maintenance training provider
for Honeywell and they also
provide training programmes for
Pratt & Whitney Canada engines
including turboprop, turbofan
and turboshaft and APUs.
Maintenance training on aircraft
manufactured by Leonardo, Bell
Helicopter, Beechcraft, Bombardier,
Cessna, Dassault Falcon, Embraer,
Gulfstream, Hawker, HondaJet,
Piaggio and Sikorsky, forms part of
the services offered by FlightSafety.
In addition, FlightSafety is
expanding its Sikorsky S-70A Black
Hawk training in West Palm Beach
which are designed to provide a path
for FAA type certification and recurrent
training in the Black Hawk. Provided
by highly qualified instructors and
evaluators, the courses feature a Level-D
qualified simulator and are designed
specifically for restricted category,
public use, and government operators.
The available courses include a
two-week VFR initial and one-week
prior experience course leading to an
S-70 type rating with VFR limitation on
an FAA certificate. A simulator for the
Sikorsky S-76B training in Lafayette,
Louisiana, recently entered service. The
full flight simulator was previously
located at the Dallas Learning Center.
FlightSafety announced at the end
of February that training has begun
using the new Airbus Helicopters
EC130T2 full flight simulator located at
its Learning Center in Denver, Colorado.
The Center is equipped with Level D
qualified simulators for the Bell 407GXP,
Airbus Helicopters AS350 B3 and EC135.
FlightSafety’s comprehensive
helicopter training programmes
include reviewing and practising
routine, abnormal and emergency
procedures, practiced in a simulator
under a wide variety of weather
and environmental conditions and
repeated without delays from air
traffic, weather conditions or air
traffic control. The FS1000 simulator
built for the Airbus Helicopter’s
EC130T2 include FlightSafety’s VITAL
1100 visual system and CrewView
collimated glass mirror display. •Corporate emergency training.Above: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT)Above: Sikorsky S-76D simulator.Above: Gulfstream G550 simulator.Above: FS1000 simulator interior.Caption to come