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Jet Airways to save $10 m on pilot training
Jet Airways has gone the cost effective way to train its pilots through two new in-house flight simulators. According to the CEO of Jet Airways, Mr Wolfgang Prock-Schauer, the company would be saving $10 million annually on pilot training, which the company was incurring by sending them abroad.
Explaining the functioning of the simulators to newspersons, Captain Manoj Bhambhani, Chief Pilot - Training & Standards of Jet Airways, said, "The cockpits in these simulators are exact replica of the airplanes that they simulate. Pilots get accustomed to real flying experience through accurate and life-like representation of visual environment the aircraft appears to be flying in, including turbulence in the air, clouds, thunderstorms, emergency situations and so on, along with landing approaches of airports around the world."
According to Jet, pilots need 20 to 24 hours of flying experience on the simulator before they can fly aircraft. The company claims its simulators are level D certified zero flight time devices which allows its pilots from simulator training directly to line training, thereby eliminating the need for flying training on an actual airplane which was the earlier practice.
The simulators have been supplied by the Canada-based CAE Inc, one of the major providers of simulation and training solutions for commercial airlines in the world.
