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which strengthens the instructors’ ability to
deliver standardized training and also equips
them to objectively assess pilot competen-
cies using live data during training sessions.
The launch customer for the system, which
leverages big data analytics to provide data
that can be used to enhance the pilot training
program, is AirAsia. In November, the com-
pany announced the launch of CAE Rise for
the defence market.

Nick Leontidis, CAE’s Group President, Civil
Aviation Training Solutions, is of the opinion
that CAE Rise will strengthen instructors’
ability to train more consistently to each air-
line’s culture and reality.
A320, one that has the capability to replicate both the CEO
“It also augments the instructors’ and NEO versions of the aircraft, to HAITE Aviation Safety and
capability to identify pilot profi- Training Pte. Ltd. The simulator, which will feature FlightSafety’s
ciency gaps and evolve our airline advanced CrewView glass mirror display, is scheduled to enter
partners’ training programs to the service at the Aviation Safety and Training Center in Singapore
most advanced aviation safety stan- in January 2019. Earlier this year, the company built a simulator
dards, including AQP/AQTP and for the King Air 200 aircraft equipped with a Garmin G1000 NXi
Evidence-Based-Training (EBT) Integrated Flight Deck at its Wichita East Learning Center. The
methodologies,” Nick Leontidis CAE’s simulator includes features wireless cockpit connectivity, wire-
Group President, Civil Aviation less database updates using Garmin Flight Stream, enhanced
Training Solutions. situational awareness with SurfaceWatch, visual approaches,
and map overlay on the HIS.
In April this year, CAE announced the launch
of the CAE 600XR Series FTD, featuring a
representative flight deck surround with
crew seats and fully tactile cockpit with
exact panel positioning. In October, the
company announced that it had expanded
its business aviation training footprint at
its CAE Dallas training center by adding a
Bombardier Challenger 604 FFS that it had
built. Earlier, the CAE-Cebu Pacific joint ven-
ture, Philippine Academy for Aviation Training
(PAAT), announced the acquisition of the
CAE7000XR Series FFS, equipped with the
CAE Tropos 6000XR visual system, a new
Airbus A320NEO full-flight simulator. The
simulator is expected to be deployed at the
CAE Clark – PAAT training center near Manila
in the first half of 2019. Another product that the company announced this year was
its first simulator for the Embraer 190-E2 aircraft, which will be
Stiff Competition in use at the Learning Center at the Paris-Le Bourget airport in
lightSafety International, which has France. The company has also built an FFS for the Gulfstream
been fighting for market supremacy G500 aircraft and is also working on a second one, which can
with CAE for decades, has been busy be used for both the Gulfstream G500 and Gulfstream G600.
Fas well. In August this year, the com- 2017 was a similarly good year, with the company selling a
pany announced that it would supply the Boeing 757-200F FFS to SF Airlines, an Embraer E170 to S7
FlightSafety FS1000 simulator for the Airbus Airlines of Russia, and a second the Embraer E190 aircraft FFS

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