CAE Expects Helo Training to Take Off
CAE sees a good future in the helicopter training market, which it expects to grow at a rate of approximately 8 percent a year. To meet some of this growing demand, it has deployed a pair of new Sikorsky S-76C++ simulators, one to Zhuhai, China and one to São Paulo, Brazil.
CAE sees a good future in the helicopter training market, which it expects to grow at a rate of approximately 8 percent a year. To meet some of this growing demand, it has deployed a pair of new Sikorsky S-76C++ simulators, one to Zhuhai, China and one to São Paulo, Brazil.

Two years after its purchase of CHC Helicopter’s pilot training operation, flight and maintenance training provider CAE said that the model of partnerships between operators and training companies is gaining momentum in the industry. “We’re seeing more interest in a CHC-type level of partnership,” said Rob Lewis, CAE’s recently named v-p and general manager for business aviation, helicopter and maintenance training. “We are in the middle of training outsourcing discussions with three of the large helicopter operators around the world right now.”

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