News Review: Adacel wins Airservices Australia contract | ADM Mar 07

1 March 2007

Adacel has been awarded a $5.25 million contract by Airservices Australia to provide and support control tower simulators for training Australia's next generation of air traffic controllers.

Simulators will be placed at the Airservices College at Tullamarine and provide training of tower controllers through the use of the full immersion simulator and the mini simulators.

Under the contract, Adacel will provide a MaxSim tower simulator with a 360 degree field of view and three MiniMax 240 degree systems.

The contract also includes warranty and support for four years.

Adacel's simulation systems will permit the development of higher skill levels at an earlier stage in controller training through concentrated coverage of required capabilities in a non-operational environment, reducing the time required in operational centres.

Airservices Australia will also use the capabilities of a Control Tower Simulator to analyse and evaluate operational/procedures modelling, airfield modelling, tower configuration modelling, aerodrome emergencies, and incident investigations.