Kingfisher Airlines buys 3 flights sims for $24mn

Kingfisher Airlines buys 3 flights sims for $24mn

Our Web Bureau / Mumbai/Farnborough July 19, 2006

Kingfisher Airlines today signed a contract valued at $24 million with Thales UK for the supply of three new full flight simulators (FFS).

According to an official release issued today, Thales will provide 2 A320 FFS and 1 ATR FFS. The contract also includes provision of a Thales A320 maintenance/flight training device (MFTD) and a turnkey maintenance support package.

All the equipment to be supplied will be from the Thales Formation family, a product range that covers all civil aviation crew training from desktop to FFS. Formation provides customers with a suite of products based on the same PC/Windows NT real time architecture allowing for effective training syllabi across multiple devices.

Vijay Mallya, Chairman & CEO, Kingfisher Airlines, said: