Kerry Lynch stepped into the role of editor of the&nbsp;Aviation International News&nbsp;monthly magazine in May 2022 after serving with&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;for eight years. She joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in December 2014 as a senior editor covering Washington and business aviation news. She has also served on Convention News teams, including as editor of&nbsp;HAI Convention News. Lynch previously spent 25 years with Aviation Week. During her time there, she reported for and later steered&nbsp;The Weekly of Business Aviation, oversaw business aviation content on the&nbsp;Aviation Week Intelligence Network, served on the&nbsp;Show News&nbsp;staff, and held roles as the Washington columnist for&nbsp;Business &amp; Commercial Aviation&nbsp;and&nbsp;Overhaul &amp; Maintenance&nbsp;monthly magazines. In 2021 she was honored with the National Business Aviation Association Platinum Wing Award for lifetime achievement in journalism and was the 2004 recipient of the National Air Transportation Association’s Aviation Journalism Excellence Award. She also has been a recipient of an Aerospace Media Award for business aviation (2022) and NBAA Gold Wing Award (2003, 2024). Lynch graduated from The Ohio State University with a bachelor of arts in journalism.

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Kerry Lynch

Frasca International is expanding its global reach with the recent placement of a business jet flight trainer in Paris and a separate contract for a helicopter simulator headed to Japan. Frasca recently delivered a Cessna Citation Mustang flight training device to DV Training at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. The company also received an order from Toyota subsidiary Aero Asahi for a level-5 flight trainer for the Airbus H125 AStar (AS350B3) single-engine helicopter.


Business aviation charter Oyonnair established the Paris center to train its own Mustang pilots, along with other EASA-licensed pilots flying elsewhere in Europe, Africa and the Middle East. A recent regulatory change to flight simulator training requirements spurred Oyonnair to enter the simulator training market. The change permits pilots to receive type-rating training on complex high-performance (single-pilot) aircraft using a new family of flight training devices in lieu of a full-flight simulator.


DV Training’s new Citation Mustang simulator was designed to be dual qualified as a flight-training device (FTD 2) and a flight and navigation procedures trainer (FNPT II) for multi-crew coordination training, meeting the recent French DGCA certification requirements for an acceptable means of compliance for type-rating instruction.


“We previously had to train our pilots on our own aircraft because there were no Mustang simulators available in Europe,” said Nathalie Chaillou, DV Training’s simulator project manager and an Oyonnair Mustang line pilot.


The trainer is the third Frasca Mustang simulator. Other Mustang devices are in use at the U.S. FAA’s Mike Monroney Aeronautical Center in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and at the Department of Aviation and Aerospace Science at Metropolitan State University in Denver.


Meanwhile, Aero Asashi expects to take delivery of its new trainer in October with Japan Civil Aviation Bureau approval to follow after that. To be installed at the company’s training center in Tokyo, the simulator will be used for H125 pilot training, along with operational training for offshore, emergency medical service, search and rescue and electric power line patrol missions. Aero Asahi operates 80 single- and twin-engine helicopters from the Tokyo Heliport (RJTI) and bases throughout Japan.


The H125 simulator will feature a custom visual database for RJTI, as well as Frasca’s helicopter mission training database. It will be equipped with a Frasca TruVision Global visual system with a large spherical 220-deg horizontal and 58-degree vertical field of view.

Frasca Placing Business Aircraft FTDs in Paris, Japan

Frasca delivered a Cesna Citation Mustang trainer to DV Training in Paris and will hand over an Airbus H125 trainer in October to Aero Asahi in Japan.

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