CTC Aviation providing Boeing simulator services to Norwegian

Aug. 6, 2015 - PRLog -- Airline pilot training and resourcing company CTC Aviation has announced a new five-year simulator usage agreement with one of Europe’s leading low-cost airlines, Norwegian. The new contract will support the airline’s expanding training requirements up to 2020.

CTC Aviation is providing Norwegian with the use of their newest simulator - a Boeing 737-800W full-flight, modular simulator based at CTC Aviation’s Crew Training Centre – London Gatwick. Manufactured by L-3 Link UK, the brand new simulator achieved Level-D certification with the UKCAA in July 2015.

Training will begin later this month, serving Norwegian’s UK and Spanish based crews.

Captain Stig Larsen - Head of Training, Norwegian commented, “We are indeed pleased to announce the development of our relationship with CTC Aviation. We are very satisfied with the bespoke solution offered at their new London Gatwick facility which is ideally situated to initially serve Norwegian’s UK and southern European - based crews. In connection with the Dreamliner Long Haul fleet, Norwegian has some 3 years of experience with the L-3 Full Flight Simulators, hence, convinced that L-3 is capable of delivering high quality, reliable training devices meeting regulatory and company requirements.”

CTC Aviation also provides bespoke wet training, type rating endorsement, multi-crew training, Jet Orientation Courses (JOC), Operator Conversion Courses (OCC) and command, Type Rating Instructor (TRI), Type Rating Examiner Standardisation (TRES) and human factors initial and instructor programmes, as well as recurrent/refresher training.

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