Simulator Sales up18 Mar 2019 10:58
Lets hope we can get in on all the existing units aswel.
Only five years ago, 50 full flight simulators (FFSs) represented the historic total annual output for all producers. The simulator industry is now approaching a combined 100 new FFSs a year.
Market-dominating CAE (Chalet A30), which reported 35 FFSs sold in its Fiscal Year 2013, has delivered 50 trainers in each of the past two cycles after its all-time high of 53 in 2016. What’s different now is there are two strong competitors in L3 Commercial Aviation (Chalet A15) and Textron Aviation-owned TRU Simulation + Training (Chalet L2), each pushing the 20-FFSs-per-year mark. L3 incorporates remnants of Thales Training and Simulation, as well as Singer-Link’s former commercial division. TRU is an amalgam of Opinicus Corporation and Mechtronix, formed in 2014.
Of the approximately 1,600 simulators in service worldwide, more than 700 were produced by Montréal-headquartered CAE, including more than 250 FFSs in the company’s 50-plus training centers. The company recently announced three new devices to be deployed in Spain: a Boeing 787 and an Airbus A350 for the Madrid center and a Boeing 737NG in Barcelona. It also unveiled a joint venture with Avianca in Colombia (three new simulators) and an Airbus A320 for Haneda Airport as part of a training agreement with Jetstar Japan