CAE sells simulators into Asia Pacific

Training technology specialist CAE has signed contracts valued at approximately C$55 million at list prices to design and manufacture four full-flight simulators (FFSs) and related training devices, and to provide simulator updates and relocations.

Included in that total, CAE has sold a CAE 7000 Series ATR 72-500 FFS to Mount Cook Airlines in New Zealand.

The simulator, which will be delivered to Auckland in the first half of 2010, will incorporate a full six-degree-of-freedom CAE True(TM) electric motion system and a CAE Tropos-6000 visual system with LCoS projectors.

The Mount Cook Airlines FFS is expected to be qualified to applicable Level D flight simulation training device standards by the Civil Aviation Authority of New Zealand and other national aviation authorities.

CAE has also sold a CAE 7000 Series Boeing 737-800 Level D FFS and a CAE Simfinity Boeing 737-800 Integrated Procedures Trainer (IPT) to Malaysian Airlines System.

This will be CAE's first B737-800 FFS and IPT for Malaysia Airlines; and they will be delivered to the Malaysia Airlines training centre in Kuala Lumpur ready-for-training toward the end of 2010.

And, also in this region, CAE has sold a CAE 5000 Series Citation CJ1+ FFS to Korean Air.

The new FFS will be delivered to Korean Air's pilot training centre on Jeju Island in the second half of 2010.

The simulator will feature CAE's next-generation visual solution, including CAE Tropos-6000(TM) image generator and liquid crystal on silicon (LCoS) projectors.

Korean Air uses Cessna Citation CJ1+ aircraft for advanced pilot training and will use the new simulator to further enhance its pilot training program.