FlightSafety gets approval for Metro Eurocopter sim
Emphasizing Metro Aviation’s “zeal for safety,” the Shreveport, La.-based company announced at Heli-Expo’09 yesterday that FlightSafety International recei

Emphasizing Metro Aviation’s “zeal for safety,” the Shreveport, La.-based company announced at Heli-Expo’09 yesterday that FlightSafety International received FAA approval on Friday for an EC 135/145 level-7 flight simulator that Metro Aviation and FSI jointly developed. The new simulator is expected to go into service this September at FSI’s facility in Lafayette, La.

Under an agreement with Superior Air Ambulance in Chicago (owner of the helicopter), Metro Aviation pilots Matthew Michealson, operational check pilot, and Paul Morrow, chief pilot, flew 120 hours over seven months in Superior’s new green EC 135 to obtain data on the entire flight envelope for the simulator. FSI engineers installed and monitored flight-data collection instrumentation in the aircraft, which did not yet have a cabin interior, as required by FAA requirements.

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