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Orlando's SimCom Gets Bigger and Better for
Business Aviation
Miami-based SimCom, the business and general aviation division
of the Pan Am International Flight Academy, has added a host of
new simulation capabilities for its corporate and private customers.
Alongside its airliner simulators (ranging from the Boeing 747
to the Jetstream 31), the company already offers training programs
for the Hawker 700/800/800XP family, the Learjet 20/30 family,
the Citation I, II and V, Raytheon's King Air, Baron and Duke,
Cessna twins, the Mitsubishi Mu-2, the Pilatus PC-12, Socata TBM700,
the Piper Aerostar and Malibu/Mirage/Meridian series, Piper twins
and even the Air Tractor.
Last year SimCom opened its new state-of-the-art training center
at Orlando International Airport-a 67,000-square-foot building
that currently houses three Level C full-motion simulators. Now
SimCom, together with SimCom Simulation Technologies, is introducing
a range of new and enhanced services to boost its training range.
These include:
- The first of two new
Mu-2M Marquise/Solitaire Level 5 simulators, on schedule for installation
in December of this year;
- A new King Air 350 full-motion
simulator, with a Collins three-screen EFIS cockpit and associated
FMS, with GPS navigation;
- A new full-motion B58 Baron
simulator, with Bendix-King avionics suite and KLN-90B GPS;
- A Level C certified Hawker 800A simulator, with full
six-axis motion control and a Honeywell EFIS cockpit;
- A second PC-12 simulator,
built for the very latest PC-12 Series 10 aircraft, to be installed
at SimCom's Scottsdale, Ariz., facility; and
- The prospect of further
expansion of SimCom's 15-acre site in Orlando.
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