Canadian-owned aircraft simulator and training operator CAE has unveiled the latest addition to its line of flight simulators. The company’s new 5000-series simulators are designed to support single-aisle jetliners such as the Airbus A320 and the Boeing 737, business jets and the VLJ market. The new series was created entirely from the ground up and was influenced heavily by recommendations from a customer input board consisting of pilots, instructors, simulator operators and technicians, according to CAE’s group president for simulation products and military training and services, Marc Parent.
“We went about using it like a ‘Skunk-works’ approach,” Parent said, referring to Lockheed’s legendary high-technology incubator. “We basically took some of the best and brightest out of CAE, and we literally segregated them in another building.” Once isolated, the 5000-series creators were told they didn’t have to use any of the tools, processes or prior history of CAE to design the new simulators. Their only mandate was to use the “input that we have on the high-level customer requirement.”
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