Our SIM engineering team is responsible for maintaining 28 Flight Simulators based in Bergamo, Dublin, East Midlands and Stansted.
Our SIMS operate for over 20 hours per day. Our highly skilled SIM Engineering team carry out preventative maintenance and urgent repair of our SIMs. Quick action to resolve issues that affect the training of aircrew using the simulators and training equipment is a priority. This to ensure minimum disruption to our pilot training schedule.
The SIM Engineering team must also ensure the SIMs continue to replicate the aircraft type and maintain the highest regulatory certification to provide the best training to our aircrew.
Each year approx. 7000 pilots use our SIMs for initial and recurrent training.
East Midlands
- 3 FFS’s
- 2 FTD’s
Bergamo
- 2 FFS’s
- 1 FTD
Stansted
- 7 FFS’s
- 3 FTD’s
Dublin
- 1 FTD
Please click on our interactive map on left side to discover which base has which SIM’s:
At present we have 19 Full Flight SIMs and 9 Fixed Based SIMs.
Our Full Flight SIMs are:
- 3 x CAE SIM 21’s
- 2 x CAE 5000 series
- 6 x CAE 7000XR series
- 8 x CAE 7000XR MAX series
Our Fixed Based SIM are:
- 9 x MPS FTD2 / FNPT2
The B737-8200 MAX simulators will be equipped with CAE Tropos 6200XR visual systems, UPRT capability and next generation instructor office.
In 2023/24 we installed our 7th and 8th B737-8200 (MAX) Full Flight SIM from CAE with No.9 arriving in 2024. The growth plan does not stop there – we have announced plans to open two new training centres in Madrid and Krakow which will operate an additional 8 Full Flight and 2 fixed base Boeing 737-8200 MAX simulators and will have the capacity to train up to 500 pilots and cabin crew on any given day.
Junior SIM Engineer Programme
Our Junior SIM Engineer Programme provides you with the best opportunity to begin your career as a Simulator Engineer. This is an exciting opportunity to join our team and start a job where no two days are the same!
During this 4-year programme we will train you in all the skills required to be a SIM engineer. You will work closely with our senior SIM engineers and participate in specially designed courses for each new SIM delivered. If you have studied a mechanical, engineering, or mechatronic degree we want to hear from you.
This is an exciting time to join our SIM Engineering team and start a job where no two days are the same!
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