Frasca Aids Embry-Riddle Training Revolution

Frasca International scored its biggest single order this year­16 flight training devices for Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, worth $9.8 million. Most of the new FTDs will simulate Cessna 172s and Piper Seminoles, and support Embry-Riddle's integrated flight training curriculum. Designed with the help of NASA an the FAA, the new curriculum should make training faster, less expensive and more effective.

A record year for Frasca also included an order for a Cessna Caravan full flight simulator for the University of Alaska. The simulator, with a complete display system, will be accompanied by a Frasca 142D FTD. The U.S. Air Force Academy also placed a large order this year, for eight instrument flight trainers. Air Logistics of New Iberia, LA, has ordered FTDs representing the Bell 407 and Bell 206.