Frasca Sims for ERAU

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University will buy $9.8 million worth of Frasca International flight simulation equipment for use at its campuses in Daytona Beach, Fla., and Prescott, Ariz.

Embry-Riddle's purchase of the Frasca devices will allow it to streamline its flight training, lower costs for its flight students, and extend the use and lifetime of its training planes. Flight students at Embry-Riddle (here at Booth 6214) now receive 90% of their training in the air. The new Level 6 Frasca training devices will allow the university to cut this to 60%.

The deal calls for the university to buy 16 flight training devices. One FTD will simulate the Canadair Regional Jet and will be used in advanced flight education in Daytona Beach. The other devices will simulate the Cessna 172 and Piper PA-44 Seminole aircraft used in daily flight training activities at both campuses.

They will play an even more important role in plans to offer in 2002 an integrated flight training curriculum with a less expensive, faster, and higher-quality approach than traditional training.

Frasca is here at Booth 8054.