Emirates CAE Flight Training
Emirates-CAE Flight Training provides aviation-related courses for commercial carriers in the Middle East, Europe, Africa and Asia, primarily aimed at flight deck crew and airline maintenance personnel.
The joint venture between Emirates Group and CAE Inc of Canada – a world leader in the field of aircraft simulators - is located in the Emirates Aviation College campus, near Dubai International airport.
ECFT, as the joint venture is known, is the first facility of its kind in the Middle East to be qualified to both Joint Aviation Authorities (JAA) and Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards.
The 14-bay centre houses 10 full-flight simulators: two Airbus A320/ACJs, an Airbus A330/340, a Boeing 777, two Boeing 737 NG/BBJs, a Gulfstream IV and a Gulfstream V/550, a Hawker 800/800XP and a Bell 412 helicopter simulator.
The state-of-the-art simulators have breakthrough visual realism, cockpit replication, high-fidelity avionics simulation and flight and ground-handling characteristics indistinguishable from an operational aircraft.
ECFT offers a range of simulated aircraft types and type-rated courses, covering business jets, as well as narrow and wide-body commercial jets.
The facility has made significant in-roads into India’s booming airline sector and trains many of its new private carriers, including Spice Jet, Air India Express, Indigo, Kingfisher, Air Deccan, Air Sahara and Jet Airways. Qatar Airways, Etihad and Oman Air also feature among its 150-strong client list.