Airbus has signed an agreement with CAE Simulator Training on the opening day of five-day, third International India Aviation-2012 in Hyderabad today, to set up a second Indian pilot and maintenance crew training centre. The centre will be located in Noida near New Delhi.
CAE Simulator Training is a joint venture between InterGlobe and Canada’s flight simulator company CAE. The centre will be fully operational by 2013, and will have a capacity to train up to 5,000 crews annually, making it one of the biggest training facilities of its type in the region. Noida is Airbus’ second Indian pilot training facility in addition to the Airbus Training India centre (ATI) which was opened in Bangalore in 2007. The new facility will be spread over a 3.5 acre site and initially house up to six full-flight simulators with a capability to expand to eight simulator bays.
The focus of the new Delhi training centre will on providing ‘wet’ and ‘dry’ type-rating, recurrent, conversion and jet indoctrination training for commercial aircraft pilots. Programs will also be offered for maintenance technicians Airbus Executive vice President (sales) and President Airbus India President Dr Kiran Rao, said India was one of the fastest-growing aviation markets in the world and in the long term requires more aircraft and additional pilots and maintenance crews to fly them. UNI