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Press release

AFI KLM E&M and Airbus form partnership for virtual engine run-up maintenance training

Paris, Amstelveen, Le Bourget, June 18, 2019

Airbus & AFI KLM E&M have agreed a technical and commercial partnership to co-develop and manage a virtual engine run-up A320 maintenance PC-based training solution.

The solution will offer a flexible alternative solution to training sessions performed on simulators, facilitating course scheduling and localisation, be it in training centres, in outstations or at the customer's base.

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With the new solution, technicians and mechanics requiring to be trained and qualified to perform engine-run-up tests, will be able to visualize an A320 cockpit in an immersive 3D environment and carry out the simulated Run up test operations. The software allows the monitoring of three stations from one PCs : one for the instructor to control the progress of the training performed by the trainees plus one for each trainee (captain & officer) all equipped with 3D goggles.

AFI KLM E&M and Airbus will start using it in their own maintenance training centres before end of 2019, followed by partners' networks.

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