IFR Training on the Embraer 110 - Bandeirante Simulator

Training in twin-engine, turboprop simulator with motion becomes the IFR experience much more realistic and efficient.

The EPA Civil Aviation Training Center offers its customers a new program for pilots who desire to conquer the qualification of instrument flight according to aeronautical legislation RBHA 61. Such regulation points out that the pilots must fulfill a minimum of flight hours in homologated Simulator, as well as experience of flight on aircraft for training by instruments under cowling, or either, flying in visual flight conditions under rules of IFR flight.

The program developed by EPA follows all the demanded requirements by ANAC (National Civil Aviation Agency), and with this program the pilot has many advantages. All the missions are accomplished on the aircraft Embraer 110 – Bandeirante flight simulator that, besides counting on the same real aircraft operating system, also uses a motion composed system of two axles, each one with three degrees of freedom.

The experience of flying on the equipment, provides to the pilots with a great opportunity to acquire knowledge which, many times, goes beyond the procedures of instrument flight. "The course becomes more interesting, therefore besides executing all the procedures for IFR training, during the program we can exercise some procedures related to the Bandeirante operation, as the twin-engine start and the real check-list", says the commercial pilot Camilo do Valle, who participated of the EPA IFR training, accomplished on the Embraer 110 – Bandeirante Simulator.

Another issue that makes the learning more efficient is the simulator motion system. "During the flights you forget that you are on a simulator. The ascents, descendings and turns are perceivable during the maneuvers, moreover, it is possible to reproduce adverse situations as turbulence and pane in the instruments. The environment is extremely faithful to the real flight ", concludes do Valle.

The EPA Administrative Director, Flavio Farias, still remembers that the training can be composed for a crew, or either, two pilots can accomplish the training, flying 30 hours each. "The crew formation section on the simulator brings a better learning, because it is possible to watch the missions twice, so, the crew end up flying 60 hours", explains Farias. With the crew formation in section during the instruction, each pilot accomplish the program as Pilot-Flying and as Pilot-Not-Flying, also assimilating with more easiness the practice instruction of instrument flight.