Sporty’s and Frasca Partner on Sim Training

Bethany Whitfield

Tuesday, February 07, 2012 at 11:24 PM ET

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Key Takeaways:

Sporty's and Frasca Sim have partnered to offer student pilots an enhanced, more cost-effective flight training experience.
Sporty's Academy is integrating a new Frasca Mentor flight simulator, which mimics a G1000-equipped Cessna 172 and includes global visual waypoints and synthetic ATC.
The collaboration aims to make flight training "easier and faster" by developing new training materials for Frasca sims, initially focusing on challenging areas like standard maneuvers and cross-country flying.

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Sporty’s and Frasca Sim are teaming up to offer student pilots an enhanced, more cost effective experience, both companies recently announced.

With the move, Sporty’s Academy is adding a Frasca Mentor flight simulator to its repertoire of training tools. The sim, designed to mimic the G1000-equipped Cessna 172 cockpit, comes equipped with access to over 20,000 runways and other visual waypoints throughout the world, as well as terrain awareness and synthetic ATC. Additionally, the Frasca Mentor provides satellite visuals of the 150-mile area surrounding Clermont County/Sporty’s Airport (KI69).