Caverton selects Thales to supply Reality H FFS
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Caverton Helicopters aims to deliver AW139 simulator training to pilots. This move is a key step forward in Caverton’s strategic move into flight simulation training services. They have chosen to rely on Thales’s AW139-configured Reality H Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) to accomplish this.
The simulator will be installed at Caverton’s new trainingcentre, designed to meet the increased demand for helicopter pilot trainingand, in particular, to eliminate the challenges experienced by many pilotsaiming to obtain initial and recurrent training. The training centre’s ultimateaim is to improve the overall safety of helicopter flights in the Nigerian andregional aviation sector. The centre is being set up on the same site asCaverton’s new purpose-built Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility atMurtala Muhammed International Airport in Ikeja, Lagos State, Nigeria.
The Thales Reality H FFS is an advanced commercial helicopter simulator, and will be used to provide realistic scenario-based flight and mission training to AW139 helicopter operators in the region as well as Caverton’s own pilots and crews. The simulator will support a large range of training needs, including type rating, recurrent training and proficiency checks for both Visual Flight Rules (VFR) and Instrument Flight Rules (IFR), including offshore missions and VIP operations to unprepared landing sites. It will be qualified to meet EASA Level D standard, the highest level of qualification for a simulator.
The simulator being delivered to Caverton will enable pilotsthat fly AW139 twin-engine helicopters – one of the most popular helicopterplatforms in Nigeria and the region – to be fully immersed in a realisticvirtual environment representing Nigerian operational areas, and learn tohandle a multitude of system failures and overcome very complex malfunctionsshould they arise in the real world. Pilots can thus train safely in high-riskmission scenarios in a range of weather conditions.
