Gen-next heli simo facility awaits DGCA nod, Team HATSOFF ready to enroll first batch

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Tarmak007 -- An Indian Aerospace & Defence Blog With A Difference By Anantha Krishnan M.: Gen-next heli simo facility awaits DGCA nod, Team HATSOFF ready to enroll first batch

Sitting in Bangalore and landing at Mumbai airport! Firing a missile at your enemy posts, till you blank it to ground zero. How about a force-landing atop a helipad above a 20-storey building? It’s all possible now with HATSOFF – a gen-next helicopter simulator facility in Bangalore, waiting in the wings to go live. And, if you are a chopper pilot, you can’t be asking for more.
This $66.2-million-technology-masterpiece is a 50:50 JV between Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and simulation technology leader CAE, Canada. HATSOFF stands for Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying. HATSOFF has the unique distinction of being the third in the world utilizing the ‘rolled-on-rolled-off’ (RO-RO) technology perfected by CAE. (Various cockpits are rolled in and rolled out on to the mother ship). HATSOFF houses RO-RO Type, full-motion Level-D simulator, certified to the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) standards, with a common motion platform and interchangeable cockpit modules for Bell 412EP, Dauphin 365N3 and ALH civil and military variants. The Bell 412 full-mission simulator is awaiting the crucial Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA) certification.

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Tarmak007 -- An Indian Aerospace & Defence Blog With A Difference By Anantha Krishnan M.: Breaking now! Finally, HATSOFF gets DGCA nod; shop now open for pilot training

Breaking now! Finally, HATSOFF gets DGCA nod; shop now open for pilot training

 

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Tarmak007 -- An Indian Aerospace & Defence Blog With A Difference By Anantha Krishnan M.: Pallam reviews HAL's chopper projects; will ring the BEL today

Union minister of state for defence Pallam Raju was in Bangalore on Thursday to review some crucial ongoing defence projects. "He was shown various stages of progress in Dhruv-WSI, Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), Light Utility Helicopter (LUH), Chetak, Chetal and Cheetah, with updates in the Hawk project. The minister enquired about the serviceability and operational requirements of these platforms," an official source said.
Pallam visited the Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) facility, which was given the Directorate General Civil Aviation (DGCA) approval on Wednesday.
Pallam is expected to visit some key facilities at Bharat Electronics Limited (BEL) on Friday, where the BEL Chairman Ashwani Kumar Datt and his team will make a presentation of some key projects.

 

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Good development will help to reduce costs and better training for heli pilots.