Matt Thurber, editor-in-chief at AIN Media Group, has been flying since 1975 and writing about aviation since 1978 and now has the best job in the world, running editorial operations for Aviation International News, Business Jet Traveler, and FutureFlight.aero. In addition to working as an A&amp;P mechanic on everything from Piper Cubs to turboprops, Matt taught flying at his father’s flight school in Plymouth, Mass., in the early 1980s, flew for an aircraft owner/pilot, and for two summer seasons hunted swordfish near the George’s Banks off the East Coast from a Piper Super Cub. An ATP certificated fixed-wing pilot and CFII and commercial helicopter pilot, Matt is type-rated in the Citation 500 and Gulfstream V/550. Based in the Pacific Northwest, Matt and his team cover the entire aviation scene including business aircraft, helicopters, avionics, safety, manufacturing, charter, fractionals, technology, air transport, advanced air mobility, defense, and other subjects of interest to AIN, BJT, and FutureFlight readers.

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Bombardier’s training network will employ five additional business jet simulators in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East by early next year, according to Bombardier Aerospace vice president of customer services James Hoblyn. This includes the first full-flight simulator for the Learjet 40/40XR and Learjet 45/45XR that was qualified last month at CAE’s Burgess Hill Training Centre in the UK. Another CAE location in Europe will add a Challenger 300 simulator in the third quarter of this year, Hoblyn added. Both the Learjet 40/45 and Challenger 300 simulators will offer the first training programs for these jets in Europe. 
Also last month, the Emirates-CAE training facility in Dubai began offering training in a Global Express simulator.
Early next year, a Challenger 604 simulator, which is now located at Bombardier’s Montreal training facility, will be moved to CAE’s facility in Amsterdam. And in North America, a Challenger 605 full-flight simulator will enter service at Bombardier’s Dallas facility in the fourth quarter of this year and a Global Vision avionics simulator goes live in Montreal in the first quarter of 2011.

Bombardier Boosts Training Infrastructure

Bombardier’s training network will employ five additional business jet simulators in the U.S., Europe and the Middle East by early next year, according to 

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