11-May-2021 Source: Airbus Helicopters
The Helisim Simulation Center, located inside the Airbus Helicopters Inc. facility in Grand Prairie, Texas, has inaugurated a new Thales Reality H full-motion flight simulator, the first of its kind in the region.
Helisim LLC, a subsidiary of Helisim SAS, has already invested $22 million for the new simulation center. The H145 simulator will offer the possibility for pilots to perform their initial and recurrent H145 training in the Americas, with customers already booked to begin training later this month.
“The H145 is already recognized as the most versatile light twin helicopter around the world, used in market segments such as emergency medical services, law enforcement, military, oil & gas and private aviation,” said Romain Trapp, president of Airbus Helicopters, Inc. and head of the North America region. “With this brand new state of the art H145 Level-D full flight simulator, our North American customers can experience the highes
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Airbus Helicopters president Romain Trapp
A senior Airbus Helicopters executive last week expressed skepticism that eVTOL passenger aircraft would be put into commercial service anytime soon. Romain Trapp, president of Airbus Helicopters Inc. the rotorcraft maker’s North American arm told attendees at a Helicopter Association International (HAI) webinar that “we as an industry we have to learn and hopefully we are going to find at some point, a game-changing technology which I don’t see today, by the way.”
Trapp said that it could be “decades” before eVTOL aircraft were integrated into an advanced air mobility (AAM) environment. “What we all want to see as an industry is some game-changing technology that will bring us one step further, he explained. The technology is not there, yet. And the regulatory environment has not even been defined, and for good reasons. Because at the end of the day, we still have a long way to go to be able to do so. What we all want is to