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New agreements boost FlightSafety’s business

FlightSafety International (FSI) comes to this year’s NBAA convention highlighting a string of accomplishments, including a new partnership with Embraer, a

October 13, 2010

FlightSafety International (FSI) comes to this year’s NBAA convention highlighting a string of accomplishments, including a new partnership with Embraer, a training agreement with Pratt & Whitney Canada (P&WC), its expansion of helicopter training programs and news of an enhanced product that allows trainees to “fly” virtual airplane missions during classroom training.

FlightSafety’s partnership with Embraer is the result of a competition held by the OEM a year ago, according to executive vice president Eric Hinson. “They wanted to consolidate all training they were doing themselves,” he said. With the exception of the Phenom 100/300 program, which is run by CAE SimuFlite, FlightSafety will provide factory authorized training for Embraer airliners and business aircraft, including the new fly-by-wire Legacy 450 and 500 and future models. “We’re excited to be part of it,” Hinson said. As part of the contract, the organization is to build dedicated Legacy 600/650 simulators instead of adapting the ERJ 145 simulators to the training task.

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