A small Swiss company has achieved a surprising breakthrough in commercial aviation flight simulation – the world’s first regulatory-qualified mixed-reality (MR) flight simulator. Brunner Elektronik AG, with 30 employees in the Zurich suburb of Hittnau, revealed on 4 June that its NOVASIM MR DA42 FNPT II (Flight and Navigation Procedures Trainer) has been authorised for training credits by the Swiss Federal Office of Civil Aviation (FOCA), based on European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) standards.
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Tariff Vortex for EU Business Aviation
By Rick Adams, FRAeS
The European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) took its first solo flight this week, staging the annual European Business Aviation Conference and Exhibition (EBACE) at Palexpo in Geneva, Switzerland without its longtime partner, the US-based National Business Aviation Association (NBAA).
The split was amicable, Doug Carr told me, as evidenced by his appearance as a speaker in one of the more than 30 presentations across three ‘stages’ embedded around the exhibit floor across 2 ½ days. Carr is NBAA SVP for Safety, Security, Sustainability and International Operations.
“Taking over the show was… challenging,” admitted Holger Krahmer to a media gathering on the eve of the event. Krahmer is Secretary General of the not-for-profit EBAA. He promised “a completely new look and feel, a lot of new ideas, a new concept.”