CAE is building on its partnerships with Embraer and Cebu Pacific with the deployment of full-flight simulators (FFS) in Madrid and the Philippines.
The global training provider is placing an FFS for E2 customers at the Madrid training center near the Adolfo Suárez Madrid-Barajas Airport. The Embraer CAE Training Services (ECTS) joint venture will operate the simulators to support the growing E2 fleets in Europe, the Middle East, and Africa.
This is the second E2 simulator in the ECTS network, with the first at the CAE Singapore training center. In addition, ECTS has stationed nine Embraer Phenom business jet FFSs at CAE business aviation training facilities in Dallas, Las Vegas, Burgess Hill, São Paulo, and Vienna.
“With this new simulator in Madrid, CAE is expanding its partnership with Embraer and reinforcing its commitment to support E2 customers in EMEA,” said Michel Azar-Hmouda, CAE division president for commercial aviation. “The advanced training offered in Madrid, featuring CAE’s competency-based training assessment courseware and CAE Simfinity virtual simulator, will enhance classroom training.”
Meanwhile, the CAE Philippines joint venture with Cebu Pacific is deploying an Airbus A330neo FFS in the Clark facility. That simulator will be ready for training by the end of 2026, joining an A320 and ATR 72-600 simulator already online at the Philippines facility.
Cebu Pacific operates 11 A330neos and is awaiting additional deliveries shortly. “Being the largest operator of the A330neo in Asia, this new simulator will provide additional training capacity and heighten the safe operation of this state-of-the-art aircraft,” said Cebu Pacific COO Javier Massot. “This expansion will help meet the growing demand for pilot training as Cebu Pacific continues to grow its network and widebody fleet.”
CAE and Cebu Pacific established their joint training center in 2011.