Frasca International has launched a new, lower-priced helicopter training device (HTD). The HTD is designed for helicopter air ambulance providers, airborne law enforcement, introductory turbine transition training, and ab initio flight schools. Frasca developed the HTD in response to customer demand for a helicopter training device that had a lower price point but still delivers the features required to meet their training objectives.

The device comes standard with one aircraft configuration kit (Bell 206, Bell 407, Robinson R44, or Airbus Helicopters AS350), Garmin G500H or analog instrument panel, Garmin GTN 650, collective grip based on aircraft configuration kit (governed or ungoverned piston, modulated, or Fadec), annunciator panel and circuit breakers required in RFM procedures, Frasca’s Helicopter Mission Training Database, single-channel visual system, Frasca’s Simplicity touch-screen instructor station. It will also be advanced aviation training device (AATD) qualified.

Additional aircraft kits and optional features include Garmin GTN750, simulated HeliSAS, three-channel visual display system, customer databases, and a trailer to make the system mobile and contained. Frasca designed the HTD for IIMC—inadvertant instrument meteorological condition—encounters as well as operational and procedural training. Launch customer EMS provider Air Evac Lifeteam took delivery of seven Bell 206 HTDs earlier this month. Six of the devices are housed in the optional trailers. Frasca will display the HTD next month at Heli-Expo.