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FEATURE PILOT TRAINING
Scorching Growth
Asia Pacific will lead the demand for simulator training
By Atul Chandra
AS ORDERS CONTINUE TO FLOW IN facilities are expensive to set-up and
for a new generation of single-aisle maintain, they allow for a quick ramp-up
short haul and twin-aisle long haul in training depending on organisational
jetliners, the demand to meet the training needs. Simulator training facilities will
requirements for these new generation also have to cater for levels of cockpit
airplanes will create unprecedented commonality across aircraft types never
demand for training of pilots, technicians seen before; Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner, 737
and maintenance personnel. The demand MAX, and the 777X and Airbus A320neo,
is massive, Boeing’s 2015 Pilot and A350 XWB and A380. Pilots today require
Technical Outlook forecasts that between only a single type rating to fly the A318,
now and 2034, the aviation industry will A319, 320 and A321. The transition
need to supply more than one million new training from A320 Family aircraft to the
CAE has achieved Level D
qualification for the world’s first aviation personnel—558,000 commercial A380 takes a mere 15 working days. The
A350 XWB Full Flight Simulator airline pilots and 609,000 maintenance new generation of all-digital commercial
(FFS). CAE’s A350 XWB FFS will technicians. Asia Pacific alone will account jetliners are more suited than ever
feature the state-of-the-art for 226,000 pilots and 238,000 technicians, before to be fully exploited by simulator
in flight simulator technology
to cater for the revolutionary more than the combined demand for training. Older generation simulators
advances on Airbus’ latest twin- the same personnel from Europe and are also being replaced as they age and
aisle jetliner North America. While Simulator training the aviation industry starts to retire the
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