CAE and InterGlobe to Open New Delhi Aviation Training Centre this Spring

A joint venture of CAE and InterGlobe Enterprises will open a new pilot and maintenance technician training centre near New Delhi's National Capital Region. The facility will eventually have capacity to train up to 5,000 pilots and technicians annually for airlines in India and the neighbouring region.

Rahul Bhatia, InterGlobe Group Managing Director, said, "We are delighted to collaborate with CAE to bring to the National Capital Region a world-class training facility. This training centre will be pivotal to meeting the needs of the civil aviation community in India and offer access to globally benchmarked training technology and solutions to aviation personnel here."

CAE's Jeff Roberts, CAE Group President, Civil Simulation Products, Training and Services, said, "The New Delhi training centre is a testimony to our continued long-term commitment to serve the growing needs of the aviation industry in India. This will be the fifth CAE aviation training facility in the country, and our entire focus at these training centres is enhancing the safety and operational efficiency of our customers."

The training centre will be located at 1.5-hectare area in Greater Noida Industrial Area, about 40 kilometres from New Delhi.

The focus of the New Delhi training centre will be to provide "wet" and "dry" type-rating, recurrent, conversion and jet indoctrination training for commercial aircraft pilots. Programmes will also be offered for maintenance technicians. The new training centre will become part of the Airbus-CAE flight crew training services cooperation agreement.

The New Delhi training centre will initially house four full-flight simulators and will be capable of expansion to eight simulator bays. Advanced training technology will be used such as CAE Simfinity multimedia classrooms, computer-based training and brief/debrief facilities. CAE also operates a training centre for airline pilots in Bengaluru.