MPS deploys Projectiondesign for EPST pilot training

MPS has just carried out an interesting installation in the European Pilot Selection & Training (Epst) for the Airbus A320.

Continuing with the initiative to reduce the cost in the implementation of flight simulation, MPS has just carried out an interesting installation in the European Pilot Selection & Training (Epst) for the Airbus A320.

MPS (Multi Pilot Simulations), con sede and Groenekan (Netherlands), is an experienced aeronautical solutions provider. fifteen years ago, its founder, Dick Verburg, launched the European Pilot Selection & Training EPST as a center of excellence in pilot training. Thanks to a careful selection of candidates and training programs tailored to the needs of a constantly evolving sector, The EPST center has enjoyed success of 100% in the placement of pilots in airlines.

For several years, Verburg was looking for simulators that met its demands.. Not finding any,chose to develop a hardware system and a software platform over five years with the goal of producing an FSTD with the lowest acquisition and operating costs in its class.

Projectiondesign F22

MPS designs all parts of the FSTD, including its current fixed-base flight simulators that have been modeled after commercial aircraft such as the Airbus A320 and Boeing B737-800W, and can also be certified as such. Besides, MPS manufactures a “generic” reactor simulator.

The MPS FSTD features a high-end RSI Raster XT4 imager from Visual Systems and a projection screen with a horizontal field of view of 200 degrees by 30 degrees, while a more advanced version offers a collimated mirror display for enhanced realism.

In total four FSTDs have been installed at the EPST training center. An MPS FTSD Airbus A320 flight simulator has also been installed at the EPST headquarters in Utrecht and has been renovated by MPS.. There is another simulator based on the Boeing B737-800W design and using three WQXGA projectors of Projectiondesign F22; a third simulator based on the same flight deck, but with three WUXGA F12 projectors; and a fourth simulator that is being used for procedural training and that uses a single wuxga projectiondesign F22 projector.