Further enhancing training for Sikorsky S-76D pilots is a new FlightSafety International (FSI) graphical flight deck simulator, a stationary cockpit trainer that provides interactive representations of the aircraft’s cockpit on touch screens.

The new training device “significantly enhances the full-spectrum learning experience,” according to Dana Fiatarone, Sikorsky v-p of commercial systems and services. “It enables pilots to familiarize themselves with the cockpit, aircraft systems and avionics suite prior to flying the full-flight simulator and allows pilots to fully focus on in-depth flight training in the Level-D-qualified simulator.”

The same software that drives the FSI graphical flight deck simulator supports a PC-based, dual-screen desktop simulator that can be used in classroom training for both instructor-led and individually self-paced instruction.

The graphical flightdeck simulator is the key component of Matrix, the integrated learning system used throughout FSI training facilities and other organizations around the world.