Thales has announced level D qualification of the first EC135 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) by the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). The Thales Reality H EC135 helicopter simulator — already qualified by EASA in Europe and CASA in Australia — is housed in the Aviation Safety facilities, Haite Group’s flight training centre in Tianjin.

With the addition of the Thales EC135 FFS, the Haite Training center in Tianjin will be instrumental in meeting the increasing demand for helicopter pilot training in China, offering training packages for Emergency Medical Services and commercial operators for both training new pilots and gearing up existing pilots in complex and demanding missions.

The Reality H EC135 FFS features an extended visual display of 240°x80° field of view, combined with high-resolution geospecific imagery from the ThalesView image generator and the Hexaline low-maintenance all-electric motion system.

Haite Group is a Chinese aviation technology service provider headquartered in Chengdu. In August last year, the group announced plans to expand its facility in Singapore, its first training centre outside China.