BAA Training, one of the largest aviation
training centres in Northern Europe, has announced the acquisition of three new
full flight simulators from CAE.
Under the agreement, BAA Training is procuring
two Airbus A320 CAE 7000XR Series full-flight simulators (FFSs) and one Boeing
737NG CAE 7000XR Series FFS. The full-flight simulators will be equipped with
the latest innovative CAE Tropos 6000XR visual system, offering unprecedented
realism.
The first Airbus A320 simulator will be
deployed in Vilnius, Lithuania in July 2018, the Boeing B737 NG will start
operating in October 2018. Yet another Airbus A320 full-flight simulator will be
housed in a new training centre facility of BAA Training in Asia, which is due
to start its operations by the end of 2018.
“To cater to the demand for aviation training
of local regional market and CIS countries, we are further expanding our
capacities at the headquarters.
"By the acquisition of new training equipment we
are making strategic moves to offer our clients from Lithuania and the
neighbouring countries a favourable training location and the infrastructure of
the highest standards,” comments Egle
Vaitkeviciute, CEO of BAA Training.
According to Ms. Vaitkeviciute, the
acquisition of the simulators comes at a time of a significant growth of
regional airlines, thus the Academy will be able to put the comprehensive
training provided to their pilots with the latest technology on fast track.
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In order to respond to the growing needs of
type rating training caused by an increasing number of Ab Initio school students
at BAA Training, the Academy is planning to acquire more full-flight simulators
by 2022 to position the aviation training services delivered by the company for
long-term success on the market.
Due to this acquisition, BAA Training will
operate four full-flight simulators in Lithuania and one in Asia making over 90
full-flight simulators available for BAA Training clients through the partner
network in total.
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