Rotorsim marks heli-operator training milestone
The CAE and AgustaWestland joint venture, Rotorsim, is set to add an AW169 full-flight simulator to its training centre in Italy as it marks 100,000 hours of helicopter operator simulator training.
Rotorsim was initially established in 2003 to provide synthetic training solutions for the AW109 Power and AW139 helicopter operators with CAE-built Roll On/Roll Off (RORO) Level D full flight simulators. Since then it has expanded to include AW109 LUH, AW109N, AW189 and NH90 training.
The organisation’s training centre in Italy is located within the Finmeccanica - AgustaWestland ‘A. Marchetti’ Training Academy in Sesto Calende. Rotorsim also offers training on a CAE-built AW139 simulator located at CAE’s North East Training Centre near New York City.
The new CAE 3000 Series AW169 simulator will to be ready-for-training at the Rotorsim training centre in summer 2015.
Daniele Romiti, CEO, AgustaWestland, said: ‘This significant milestone for Rotorsim highlights our commitment to delivering high quality training services to our customers to enable them to enhance safety and mission effectiveness. We will continue our strategy to expand our training services in which Rotorsim is a key element.’
Rotorsim's flight simulation capability, with 98% availability, currently includes five CAE Level D full flight simulators in Sesto Calende with the most recent additions being the second AW139 and first AW189 simulators. The cockpits for AW109 Power, AW109 LUH, AW109N and first AW139 can also be transferred into an additional fixed-based Flight Training Device (FTD) docking station. The original AW139 FFS had recently been upgraded to include visual and scenario enhancements and the NH90 military FFS supports the training of pilots from four nations. In the US, the AW139 FFS had also been upgraded to deliver Phase 7 software capability as well as enhancements to the visual and scenarios and additional capacity is provided by an AW/Frasca FTD at FAA Level 6.
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