CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa, 8 Sept. 2010. Rockwell won a four-year contract for the U.S. Navy's Hawkeye Integrated Training System - Maintenance (HITS-M) program and will serve as the prime contractor in designing and developing the first integrated maintenance training systems on the E-2D platform.

SEATTLE, 27 Aug. 2010. Boeing (NYSE: BA) Training & Flight Services has started 787 Dreamliner flight certification training following the provisional approval from the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) for Boeing's Seattle-based 787 flight training devices. As part of flight training, pilots train on a 787 flat panel training device and a 787 full-flight simulator -- both manufactured by Thales.

SEATTLE, 16 Aug. 2010. The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) granted Boeing (NYSE: BA) Training & Flight Services provisional approval for its 787 Dreamliner pilot training courses. With the 787 pilot training courses, pilots can transition to the new airplane in five to 20 days, depending on pilot experience. Boeing 777 pilots can qualify to fly the 787 in as little as five days, given the high level of commonality between the two airplane types.

SAO JOSE DOS CAMPOS, Brazil, 14 Aug. 2010. Embraer CAE Training Services (ECTS) first Phenom 300 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) has been qualified by the Brazilian Civil Aviation Agency (Agencia Nacional de Aviacao Civil -- ANAC), the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). The state-of-the art flight training tool located at CAE's SimuFlite Training Center in Dallas is already being used for Phenom 300 pilot qualification.

FALLS CHURCH, Va., 9 Aug. 2010. CSC (NYSE: CSC) won a $28 million modification to its Flight School XXI contract for an increase in simulator-based flight and related aviation training support to the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence at Ft. Rucker, Ala.

SINGAPORE, 5 Aug. 2010. Eurocopter introduced the first full flight simulator (FFS) for the Dauphin AS365 N3 in South East Asia. The simulator is being developed and built in partnership with Thales and will be operational in Eurocopter South East Asia's (ESEA) new training facility in Singapore by mid 2012.

ARLINGTON, Texas, 3 Aug. 2010. L-3 Link Simulation & Training announced won a $39.2 million in production contracts from Boeing to build 12 F-22 Full Mission Trainers (FMTs). Boeing developed and implemented the overall F-22 Training System, which includes L-3's high-fidelity F-22 FMTs that enable pilots to practice operating the aircraft. F-22 FMTs are used to reinforce air-to-air and air-to-ground warfighting skills, including undertaking simulated missions against advanced integrated radar networks and dense surface-to-air missile environments.

TOKYO, Japan, 27 July 2010. Boeing (NYSE: BA) Training & Flight Services completed an update of the visual systems on All Nippon Airways' (ANA) three 767-300 full-flight simulators in Tokyo. The upgrade enhances the realism and quality of the training and ensures conformity with the latest regulatory requirements.

FARNBOROUGH, England, 17 July 2010. European flight simulator designers are creating cost-effective full-motion flight simulators for helicopter pilots by using a heavy-duty industrial robot to provide motion to the simulator's cockpit. Simulation and training experts from helicopter services and training company Heli Aviation GmbH in Wallerstein, Germany; the Max Planck Institute for Biological Cybernetics in Tübingen Germany; and industrial robot specialist KUKA in Augsburg, Germany, are designing a helicopter flight simulator called the Heli Trainer that uses a KUKA robot to move the simulator's cockpit as it emulates the motion of flight.

MONTREAL, Quebec, 15 July 2010. Presagis announced Lyra IG, a pre-integrated PC image generation (IG) solution that combines visualization software from Presagis with the latest in PC graphics technology and hardware.

BANGALORE, India, 10 July 2010. The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) -- a joint venture owned equally by Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE -- announced that its Bell 412 full-mission simulator has been certified to Level D, the highest qualification for flight simulators, by India's Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA) and the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA).

MONTREAL, 8 July 2010. CAE announced that it won new training solutions contracts with Bombardier, ATR, and Vietnam Airlines. The contracts include the sale of four full-flight simulator (FFS) orders which bring the total FFS sales that CAE has announced during fiscal year 2011 to six.

BRETIGNY-SUR-ORGE, France, 12 June 2010. Eurocontrol launched a two-week real-time simulation to test the viability of improvements proposed by the French DSNA to the air traffic system serving Paris-Charles De Gaulle, Paris-Orly, and Paris-Le Bourget airports.

CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa 5 June 2010. Rockwell Collins achieved Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Part 60 Level D qualification for its Edge Boeing 737 NG Full Flight Simulator (FFS). The simulator, delivered in April, is located at Pan Am International Flight Academy's North American training center in Miami.

ORLANDO, Fla., 29 April 2010. Rockwell Collins delivered an advanced Edge 737 NG Full Flight Simulator (FFS) to the Pan Am International Flight Academy's North American training center in Miami, marking the U.S debut of the new system. The announcement was made at the World Aviation Training Symposium (WATS).

NAVAL AIR SYSTEMS COMMAND, PATUXENT RIVER, Md., 28 April 2010. NAVAIR's Naval Aviation Training Systems program office (PMA-205) delivered an updated F-16A/B Fighting Falcon simulator to the Naval Strike and Air Warfare Center (NSAWC), Naval Air Station Fallon, Nev.