The world’s
leading turboprop manufacturer ATR has officially
inaugurated its new Training Center in Miami,
Florida, US.
The new facility
is equipped with a brand new Full Flight Simulator (FFS)
for ATR -600 series aircraft, provided by CAE. The
new ATR Training Center, located at the Airbus
training premises, is especially oriented to current
and future ATR operators on the American continent.
In Latin America
and the Caribbean, the fleet of ATR aircraft has
doubled within the last decade, and the number of
ATR -600s is expected to exceed 100 aircraft within
the next three years. The opening of this new
training facility at one of the key hubs in America
falls in line with ATR’s customer support strategy
aiming to provide pilot training solutions close to
its customers.
The new Miami
facility brings to five the number of ATR training
centers, after Toulouse, Paris, Singapore and
Johannesburg. ATR currently delivers over 100,000
training hours and trains over 3,500 pilots each
year on its different programs.
Miami will apply
the same standards and provide the same leading-edge
training courses as Toulouse, including
Performance-Based Navigation (PBN) for ATR -600s.
The Training Center in Miami holds both EASA and FAA
Part 142 Certifications.
Christian
Scherer,
ATR’s Chief Executive Officer, declared: “Due to the
global expansion of air transport, airlines are
expected to need 600,000 new pilots within the next
20 years. As the world reference in the regional
market, we have to provide and anticipate solutions
for regional carriers. The Training Center in Miami
is a natural step in our aim of being as close as
possible to our operators in the region, and a
strategic move to re-enter the US market.”
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