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ADAC orders FFS B Simulators

6th April 2007

cueSim Ltd, of Bedford, UK and Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club. are pleased to announce:-

Allgemeiner Deutscher Automobil-Club (ADAC), have placed contracts with cueSim Ltd for 2 Full Flight Helicopter Simulators, for internal and 3rd party, training and checking of pilots for the EC135 and EC145.

The FFS B simulator for the EC135 will be equipped with analogue instruments, and electronic CPDS. The FFS B will be reconfigurable between EC135 T2 and P2, and facilitate future reconfiguration to the EC135 P2i and T2i variants.

The FFS B simulator for the EC145 will be fully EFIS and will be reconfigurable to EC135 P2i and T2i, and facilitate future reconfiguration to EFIS variants of the EC135 P2 and T2.

The simulators, to be qualified to JAR-STD 1H / JAR-FSTD H Level B will be based at a purpose designed facility at Bonn-Hangelar (EDKB) airfield, very close to the Cologne-Bonn International Airport (CGN).  

ADAC's FFS B contracts for EC135 and EC145 pilot training follows a rapid growth of interest in cueSim simulators, which address operator requirements for highly capable synthetic training, checking and testing devices, whose acquisition and operating costs match civil helicopter industry economics.

On completion, ADACs FFS B simulators will be the worlds first, level B helicopter simulators, qualified under JAR and will feature cueSims world leading flight modelling software, complemented by cueSims high fidelity motion, force feel control loading, vibration cueing and state of the art visual systems.  

The visual database is of particular importance with this level of simulator and will provide significant training benefits. Very high resolution databases will cater for both HEMS operators, and to 3rd party customers whose operations are not HEMS oriented. They will incorporate local German training and operational mission areas, such as confined areas and obstacle hazards, and facilitate low level training tasks and visual navigation. Both simulators will also allow NVG training.

cueSim, is a subsidiary of QinetiQ, one of the world's leading defence technology and security companies.

cueSim's Managaing Director, Robert Coppard, said, "This marks the beginning of a long partnership with one the most prestigious organisations in Germany, and one with a very high profile aviation role.  It is a significant win for cueSim in the face of some formidable competition, and reflects the faith that ADAC have placed in the quality and expertise of our team.  We look forward with great anticipation to seeing our simulators in the new ADAC HEMS Academy, at Bonn-Hangelar".

In 1968 ADAC launched a pilot scheme to prove the benefit of air rescue for accident victims. In 1972 it founded its subsidiary ADAC-Luftrettung GmbH that has since developed the German air rescue system. The company owns 42 helicopters on 33 rescue bases of the types EC 135 and EC 145/BK 117. ADAC Luftrettung employs 125 pilots and is the biggest air rescue company in Germany.