CAE will bring on line two Embraer Phenom 300E full flight simulators that will enter service in 2024 at London-Burgess Hill and Las Vegas’ Harry Reid international airports. The installations will target the growing demand for pilot training in the light jet in Europe and the U.S.
“We are working with CAE to be where our customers need us to be, providing them with our latest technological updates and best-in-class support. Embraer and CAE are long-term partners to provide exceptional services to the market,” said Carlos Naufel, president and CEO of Embraer services and support.
Said Alexandre Prevost, CAE’s division president, business aviation and helicopter training: “The two new simulators will double our Phenom 300 training capacity in Las Vegas and London and allow ECTS to train more pilots at a critical time. Over the next 10 years, CAE forecasts a need for 32,000 business aviation pilots, and we are working with our partners at Embraer to ensure Phenom 300 customers have the highly qualified pilots they need to keep them flying.”
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In a NBAA-BACE preview briefing with FLYING earlier in October, Embraer vice president of customer support Marsha Woelber put the addition into the context of the overall service program, which includes five owned service centers and more than 60 authorized service centers around the world, in addition to its training partners. “In the past few years, our fleet has grown a lot,” Woelber said. “There have been a lot of secondary market transactions…and overall a lot of attrition in our flight departments that has created a significant increase in demand for pilot slots.”
“Earlier this year, we opened a Phenom simulator facility in Las Vegas, that was in April,” said Woelber, who noted that the sim installed this spring was the seventh one on line in the partnership, and the coming installations in February (London) and in Q3 2024 in Las Vegas represent the eighth and ninth units, respectively.
