Spokane Turbine Center of Spokane, Washington has purchased a Fidelity full motion flight simulator for the Quest Kodiak. This simulator will be fully type specific for the Kodiak, including a 3-screen Garmin G1000 avionics display, both Garmin integrated GFC-700 and STec 55x autopilot controls, and 3-axis dynamic control loading in pitch, roll and yaw axes. Quest Aircraft Company (www.questaircraft.com ) is working closely with Fidelity Flight Simulation to provide all cockpit parts and subassemblies for a high standard of cockpit specificity.

“We are particularly thankful to be working with Spokane Turbine Center on the Quest Kodiak simulator,” says Graham Hodgetts, President of Fidelity Flight Simulation. “I have been working as a missionary in Uganda for the last 8 years and understand first-hand how important the Kodiak will be in that part of the world.”

Spokane Turbine Center (www.spokaneturbinecenter.com), located at Felts Field Airport in Spokane, Washington, is a 501(c) (3) organization providing high quality, cost effective turbine training to the mission aviation community. Prerequisite and customized flight and maintenance training programs are offered for the Kodiak, as well as for the Garmin G1000 and the Pratt & Whitney PT6A engine. For more information contact Jeff Turcotte, Executive Director, at Jeff@spokaneturbinecenter.com , or at 509-714-6391.

Fidelity Flight Simulation, Inc., headquartered in Pittsburgh, PA, offers a wide range of flight simulators and training devices for defense, commercial, business, and general aviation for both fixed wing aircraft and rotorcraft. More information is available on Fidelity Flight Simulation at www.fidelityflight.com, or by contacting the company at mlimbach@fidelityflight.com or 412.321.3280.

Flight Simulators among top 5 technologies affecting the aviation industry over the last 50 years

July 2008 - In the July issue of Business & Commercial Aviation, “Five for 50” identifies Flight Simulators as one of the 5 leading technologies affecting the aviation industry over the last 50 years…

  Airplanes are lousy classrooms. The onslaught of sensory stimuli in flight can overwhelm the student’s concentration. Beyond that, some maneuvers are too dangerous or time consuming and flight training consumes fuel and causes aircraft to wear or break.
  To help minimize that, training organizations since the Wright era have employed a wide variety of devices to help pilots see, feel and do while still on the ground; these aids reached a new level in World War II when Edwin Link’s bellows-driven “blue box” was used to train U.S. Army pilots to fly on instruments.
  Flight simulation advanced significantly with the arrival of the analog computer and the jet airplane. When the new high-performance aircraft began experiencing loses due to new phenomena including Mach tuck and overspeed, insurers and operators agreed that pilot training had to be conducted in type specific simulators. The inflight training alternative was simply inadequate and too costly. Simulation improved further with the introduction of ultra-high-capacity microchip processors, allowing large-screen, detailed color visuals.
  Accident rates improved dramatically with full flight simulator training. Few technologies have had so positive an impact on an industry’s well-being.

Quoted with permission from “Five for 50”, Mal Gormley, William Garvey and Staff. Business & Commercial Aviation, McGraw-Hill Companies, July 2008, page 53. http://www.aviatonweek.com/bca
 

Fidelity TAA/Avidyne Simulation Device for
F.I.T. Aviation

June 30, 2008 - F.I.T. Aviation, LLC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Florida Institute of Technology, has purchased a TAA/Avidyne Simulation Device from Fidelity Flight Simulation. The F.I.T. Aviation unit will include a dual control, two seat cockpit, a multi-channel visual display, and will be reconfigurable between the advanced Avidyne Entegra avionics and standard flight instrumentation. Integration will be provided with a Garmin 430 GPS unit and replica STec 55x autopilot.
 

ProFlight Purchases MOTUS® Citation CJ3
Level 6 FTD

April 30, 2008 - ProFlight Proficiency Flight Training of Carlsbad, California has purchased a MOTUS® Type-Specific Citation CJ3 simulation device from Fidelity Flight Simulation. This unit will include a stimulated ProLine 21 integrated avionics suite including a 3-screen display, the APP-85 AFCS, the FMS-3000 Flight Management System, and electronic charting capabilities on the adaptive flight displays. The ProFlight Citation CJ3 will be approved by the FAA at Flight Training Device Level 6, although the unit will incorporate a six axis motion base, a cross-cockpit visual display, and other features typically found only on Level D full flight simulators. Fidelity will be purchasing aerodynamic data, technical data and all cockpit components directly from Cessna Aircraft Company.

Here's a complete press release

And here's an article by Halldale Media Group
 

New Garmin G1000
Mobile Training Stations
in Japan, U.K.

January 8, 2008 - New Fidelity Garmin G1000 Mobile Training Stations have been purchased by Japan Aerospace in Tokyo, Japan and JHP Aviation, Ltd. in West Midlands, United Kingdom.
 

Syracuse University Purchases MOTUS® 622i Flight Simulator

December, 29, 2007 - Syracuse University has purchased a full motion MOTUS 622i flight simulation device. The Syracuse unit includes a Garmin 430 GPS unit and Fidelity’s expanded LCD Mosaic Wall external visual system with 32” LCD displays. This simulation device also includes sidestick controls in addition to standard control yokes for use in aerodynamic modeling and research applications.
 

Royal New Zealand Air Force P-3 Orion simulator
completes acceptance test

This new P-3K simulator, developed for the RNZAF by Fidelity, will be installed at Whenuapai Air Base in Auckland next year. The simulator will provide pilots and flight engineers with a high level of simulation for emergency operating procedures; ranging from crosswind landings to auto-coupled precision approaches and ditching drills – all with six-degree freedom of movement and dynamic control loading, providing a similar ‘feel’ to the real aircraft. Until now, RNZAF pilots have been forced either to go to Australia to use an Australian Air Force simulator in Adelaide, or spend air time in the NZAF's own Orions at a cost of $8000 per hour.

Download: New Zealand Herald (Auckland) (120 KB)

Download: September 2007 issue of AFN85 (4.1 MB)
 

Guardian Flight
Purchases MOTUS King Air B200 Simulator

August 6, 2007 - Guardian Flight Inc., a Fairbanks-based air ambulance service providing critical care transport across Alaska, into Canada and into the lower 48, has purchased a MOTUS type-specific King Air B200 simulation device from Fidelity Flight Simulation. The Guardian Flight B200 simulator will provide pre-qualification, initial, and recurrent training for Guardian Flight’s growing King Air crew base.

Here's a complete press release.
 

New G1000 Trainer available to public

Fidelity Garmin G1000 Trainer (patent pending)

July 5, 2007 - Fidelity introduces the Garmin G1000 Mobile Training Station™, a total simulation and training device for Garmin’s powerful avionics suite. The Garmin G1000 Mobile Training Station is a complete flight simulation system for the Garmin G1000, using the actual Garmin Line Replaceable Unit (LRU) displays, yet comes in a small desktop configuration that easily collapses into a convenient carrying case.

Here's a downloadable color brochure in pdf format.
 

The Fidelity P-3 Orion simulator features Fidelity’s six degree-of-freedom all-electric motion base, an enhanced LCD Mosaic Wall external visual display, and full type-specific replication of the P-3 Orion aircraft. Avionics systems include the Universal 890R EFIS displays and dual UNS 1-F Flight Management Systems.

Click on any of the following P-3 sim photos to see a larger version:

24 April 2007 - Turbine Training Center of Manhattan, Kansas has purchased a King Air C90 MOTUS® full motion simulation device from Fidelity Flight Simulation. The C90 simulation device is reconfigurable to a King Air B200 and will extend Turbine Training Center's capability to provide professional transition and recurrent flight instruction in turboprop aircraft. The King Air C90 unit is the 3rd simulation device purchased by Turbine Training Center from Fidelity Flight Simulation.

Here's a complete press release.

Cessna Awards Fidelity Contract for Simulation Devices and Portable G1000 Trainers

18 December 2006 - Cessna Aircraft Company has awarded Fidelity a contract to provide flight simulation devices and Garmin G1000 Kiosk trainers at its Independence, Kansas single engine training facility. The agreement includes a total of nine training devices, from type-specific simulation devices for the Cessna Skylane 182 to patent-pending portable training stations for the Garmin G1000 avionics system.

Here's a complete Press Release
 

September 5, 2006 - Fidelity Flight Simulation has received an order from Texas Southern University for a full motion MOTUS 622i simulation device. The unit features Fidelity's new integrated instrument console design, offering greater reconfigurability and improved reliability for the TSU Airway Science Program, Department of Transportation Studies. The unit includes a Garmin 430 GPS unit and Fidelity's Embraer 170 turbine flight model.

Guess who's the leader in this technology?

August 2006 - The August 2006 issue of AOPA Pilot lists Affordable Motion Simulators among the Top 40 Technologies Influencing General Aviation. "Full-motion simulators tilt and rock, spin and pitch, and have come down in price so much that it is possible to attach the word affordable to them with a straight face."
 

MOTUS Bell 222 Simulator Installed in Denmark

Fidelity Flight Simulation has completed commissioning of the MOTUS Bell 222 simulator at Air Alpha in Odense, Denmark. The Bell 222 features a fully type-specific cockpit and an enhanced LCD Mosaic Wall external visual display.

The clarity, resolution, and brightness of the external display in combination with the Fidelity 6 axis motion base makes the MOTUS an ideal helicopter training environment.
 

Southern Jet Center Deploys Citation II

Southern Jet Center in Sanford, FL has deployed its type-specific Citation II simulator, equipped with a Universal Flight Management System and dual Garmin GPS units.

West Virginia University demonstrates New MOTUS 622i Simulator

View this video to see how WVU is using its MOTUS flight simulation device.
 

Oklahoma State University Purchases MOTUS 622i

December 5, 2005 - Fidelity Flight Simulation has received an order from Oklahoma State University for a full motion MOTUS 622i simulation device.

The unit includes Fidelity’s reconfigurable cockpit design, along with a Canadair RJ primary instrument display to allow initial glass cockpit training for the OSU School of Aviation Sciences. A Garmin 430 GPS unit is also included.
 

Fidelity's Eurocopter EC135 Simulation Device Approved at Flight Training Device Level 3

October 17, 2005 -
Fidelity Flight Simulation has been awarded FAA Flight Training Device Level 3 approval for its full-motion Eurocopter EC135 simulation device built for STAT MedEvac of West Mifflin, PA. The Fidelity EC135 is the first full-motion helicopter flight training device ever approved by the FAA, and the first approved FTD ever for a Eurocopter aircraft. Fidelity will now deploy the EC135 FTD for training STAT MedEvac's 70 pilots over 16 locations throughout the northeastern U.S.

Here's a complete press release.
 

Jet Management Purchases Cessna Citation II Simulation Device

July 25, 2005 - Jet Management, Inc. from the Orlando/Sanford International Airport has purchased a Cessna Citation II simulation device from Fidelity Flight Simulation. The unit will include Fidelity's six axis motion base, dynamic control loading, twin Garmin GPS units and a Universal Flight Management System. The device will be type specific for the Citation model 550, but will offer training reconfigurability through a wide class of twin turbine aircraft.

Here's a complete press release.
 

June 28, 2005 - West Virginia University has purchased a MOTUS 622i simulation device from Fidelity Flight Simulation. The Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Department will use the unit to perform research in designing advanced flight control laws. The full motion MOTUS simulation device will include alternate joystick control in addition to standard yoke flight controls.
 

May 5, 2005 - simTrain LLC has announced the placement of three full-motion Cirrus flight simulation devices at Cirrus authorized training centers around the country. The Cirrus simulation devices, manufactured by Fidelity Flight Simulation of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, are located at Lift Flight Training in Atlanta, Georgia, Certified Flyers in Morristown, New Jersey, and The Flight Academy, in Las Vegas, Nevada.

"The Cirrus flight simulation devices in Atlanta and Morristown are already in place, with FAA certification scheduled for May," said Mark Limbach, V.P., Marketing for Fidelity Flight Simulation. "The unit to be placed in Las Vegas will first be on exhibit at the Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association (COPA) annual fly-in in Duluth, Minn., on June 3-5, and then will be shipped to Las Vegas."

Here's a complete press release.

March 11, 2005 - Defense giant L-3 Communications Integrated Systems of Greenville, Texas has awarded a contract to Fidelity for a full-motion P-3 Orion flight training device for the Royal New Zealand Air Force (RNZAF). The training device will feature Fidelity's MOTUS simulation technology, including its 6 degree-of-freedom motion base, LCD Mosaic Wall™ external visual display, and dynamic control loading. The cockpit will be type specific for the P-3 aircraft used by the RNZAF.

Here's a complete press release.