HAL-CAE India Helicopter Training Centre
Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) and CAE have established a joint venture company that plans to open a helicopter training centre in Bangalore. The joint venture company, called the Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF), is owned equally by CAE and HAL. The training centre is currently scheduled to begin operations in 2010 by providing both civil and military helicopter pilot and maintenance training services. CAE is designing and manufacturing one full-mission simulator featuring CAE's revolutionary roll-on/roll-off cockpit design, which enables cockpits representing various helicopter types to be used in the simulator. CAE and HAL are planning to provide HATSOFF with cockpits for two variants of the HAL-built DHRUV helicopter as well as cockpits for the Bell 412 and Eurocopter Dauphin helicopters.
