HAL-CAE pact to set up academy

Bangalore: Hindustan Aeronautics Limited and CAE, a Canadian firm, today signed an agreement here to set up a joint venture company that will open a helicopter simulator training centre in the city, the first of its kind in India devoted specifically to serve civil and military helicopter customers in the region
Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF), the new unit, would be owned equally by HAL and CAE and it is expected to begin operation in late 2008, providing both civil and military helicopter pilot and maintenance training services.
As part of the joint venture, CAE would design and manufacture one full-mission simulator featuring CAE’s revolutionary roll-on and roll-off cockpit design, which enables cockpits representing various helicopter types to be used in the simulator.
26/09/07 The Statesman