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N B A A 2 0 07 ON THE RECORD— Jeff Roberts, Group President for Innovation and Civil Training and Services, CAE CAE Simuflite to Cover Bizjet Field CAE Simuflite said here yesterday that it’s boosting training programs “to address 90% of all business aviation aircraft and cover all major OEMs.” “Effectively we’ll address 100% of the active fleet,” CAE group president for innovation and civil training and services Jeff Roberts told Show News. CAE will do so, he says, by installing new simulators or upgrading existing ones at various training centers around the world—or by building entirely new facilities if that’s what customers want. The company already has 25 centers, and two thirds of them, Roberts points out, are outside North America. CAE Simuflite is thus already poised to take advantage of the increasing globalization of the business aviation marketplace. CAE has bases as far afield as Dubai in the Middle East, Zhuhai in China, Gondia and Igrua in India. In Europe, CAE has training centers in Amsterdam, Rome, Madrid and Moscow, all of which could host business jet sims. CAE also trains in Morristown, N.J. The curriculum expansion will address products from the “big six business aviation OEMs,” Roberts says, naming Bombardier, Cessna, Dassault Falcon, Embraer, Gulfstream and Hawker Beechcraft. New programs may be expected to enter service within the next two years. are the customers, the regula“We are offering more choices tory agencies and the insurance to our customers and bringing companies. We’ve done a good our training services closer to bit of the ground work, and more corporate operators than now we’ll soon expand this to ever before,” Roberts says. CAE include more customer input as will release new details of its relawell as the additional staketionships with at least two of the holders as we design, develop airframers here today. and put the structure and proCAE’s new Gulfstream 550 gram to bed.” full-flight simulator, located at “I think you’ll see us migrate Emirates-CAE Flight Training to a more and more continual in Dubai, has been certified Jeff Roberts heads CAE SimuFlite. training paradigm where it Ready for Training. Closer to won’t just mean training once or twice a year, you’ll home, its Sikorsky S-76B simulator at CAE SimuFlite’s North East Training Center in Dallas has see it on a more continual basis because of the available technology.” received FAA Level D qualification. Competition between CAE and FlightSafety CAE is expanding its European business aviaInternational? tion training activity, too. “We’ve already tripled “The market is robust enough for ample opporour capacity [business aviation/commercial] at our tunity for both players,” Roberts says. “If you ask newest center, Burgess Hill, UK, in the last twoand-a-half years,” says CAE group president ‘do we want to be market leaders?’ The answer is for innovation and civil training and services absolutely yes.” Is it all about size? Jeff Roberts. Burgess Hill started with just four “No,” Roberts says. That’s just one metric to bays, went to eight and is now going to 12. “There define leadership, but another could be customer is additional space here and it will grow bigger than we’ve already announced.” Does that mean satisfaction, it could be best in class service, or best distributive network of training centers. Our more building is required? “Yes,” Roberts says. “Business at Burgess Hill is split roughly 50/50 goal is to be very responsive to the market, to probetween business and commercial aviation right vide a value proposition that customers find now, but going forward, I’m not sure if it will stay compelling, and to win a proportionate share of like that. It might become more business aviation- that business.” CAE has been in the market for 60 years. “What orientated, and right now we are assessing our future plans for additional business aviation train- is true and indisputable is that we are in every seging centers in Europe. We’re deep in that ment; we’re in general aviation, business aviation, assessment and analysis and I don’t think we’ll get regional, commercial and military aviation. We also have the broadest array of training, whether it all done and complete by NBAA.” Roberts said that Falcon 7X training at Burgess it be training centers, building equipment, mainHill was getting busier as aircraft go into service, taining equipment, or delivering training. We’re and that there is a good bit of advance training not part of another organization, which gives us going on beforehand. “Its not only 7X training, clarity and focus, and we continue to listen and we’ve also been busy on our Falcon 900 and learn from our customers,” said Roberts. Falcon 2000 simulators.” —Mike Vines & Rich Piellisch This past June CAE became Bombardier’s authorized training provider for the Global ExpressXRS, Global 5000 and Challenger 300. A month earlier, CAE signed a global joint training venture with Embraer for pilots and ground crew on the Phenom 100 and Phenom 300 VLJs. “We’re already long and broad on creation and Who says humor is dead at the top? Jeff development with this training,” Roberts says. Roberts, CAE’s group president innovations Although initially opening at CAE’s facility in and civil training services, knocked me off Dallas, training for these aircraft will follow at my chair with his opening remark. “I’m soon Burgess Hill in early 2009—and, Roberts is makputting 500 simulators into a European city.” ing clear here this week, elsewhere perhaps as well. Then added quickly, “Sorry, I’m only joking!” “We want Phenom training to be a ‘best in-class program’ and measured by the stakeholders who The CAE SimuFlite Portfolio of Products CAE’s product portfolio for the new training programs includes full-flight simulators, as well as the CAE Simfinity line consisting of two-and three-dimensional training devices. Simfinity “offers the same truefidelity Level D simulation technology used in full-flight simulators end-to-end along the entire training continuum,” the company says, “from CAE courseware and tools like procedure trainers and brief/debrief flight simulator stations used in instructor-led sessions to those designed for on-line computer-based training.” The Simfinity “makes the learning experience real and absolutely seamless,” CAE says, “improving training efficiency and effectiveness while reducing risk and cost.” In August, CAE finalized its acquisition of Flightscape, an in-flight data analysis and flight sciences company. Jocularity in High Circles 40 September 26, 2007 www.aviationweek.com/shownews

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