HELISIM selected by American Eurocopter
American Eurocpter selects HELISIM as satellite training facility, University of Michigan Health System is first customer to complete training
American Eurocopter announced that HELISIM
has been selected as a satellite flight training facility for the American
Eurocopter training centre.
“HELISIM provides state-of-the-art
simulators, top-notch training and world-class service, which complements our
existing capabilities by providing training programs for our customers who
perform missions that require larger helicopters,” said Marc Paganini,
president and chief executive of American Eurocopter. “We selected HELISIM as
our satellite training facility to ensure that our customers can benefit from
the same high level of training and service that they receive at our American Eurocopter
Training Center
in Grand Prairie.”
Co-located with the Eurocopter facility at Marseille Airport
in Marignane, France, HELISIM provides flight
simulator training for all of Eurocopter’s medium/large twin-engine
helicopters, including the AS365 N2, EC155, AS322 L1/L2, EC225 and NH90.
The first US
customer to complete American Eurocopter training in the EC155 Full Flight
Level D simulator at HELISIM is the University
of Michigan’s Survival
Flight program. To date, six pilots from Survival Flight have completed
training.
“HELISIM is very proud to support University
of Michigan in its
challenging operations. As a satellite of American Eurocopter, we have worked
together to answer Survival Flight’s training needs under FAA regulations,”
said Alain Salendre, president and chief executive of HELISIM Eurocopter
Training Services. “The satisfaction expressed by Survival Flight and its
pilots is our greatest reward, and we will continue to work with AEC and the
FAA to expand our training and support capabilities to meet the future
requirements of customers.”
“Working with HELISIM and the training we
received from American Eurocopter has been great,” said Denise Landis, Survival
Flight critical care manager. “The responses we have received from the pilots
who attended the training have been overwhelmingly wonderful.”
Jeff Dowdal, rotor wing site manager for
Survival Flight, attended the training and said the whole process was
outstanding. “The training was excellent, the facilities were great and the
service we received from HELISIM before and during our training was
remarkable,” he explained.
