FBOs and Flight Schools

FBOs and flight schools are under increasing pressure to provide higher quality flight training, control insurance risk, and generate the bottom line margins that allow them to support their customers. Many studies have demonstrated that a program built on both simulation and in-aircraft training, as opposed to only in-aircraft training, best achieves the following goals…

•  Greater efficiency – how many approaches can be done in one hour? Perhaps 4 or 5 in the aircraft. In a qualified simulation device as many as 12 approaches an hour can be performed. The same principle applies to all aspects of flight training…

“ The best solution is use a simulator such as the MOTUS Flight Simulation Device…one local flight school has a MOTUS that rents for less than a Skyhawk – with no time wasted taxiing or being vectored through busy airspace.

"That makes it cheaper, more efficient, and more effective…than airplane-based training could hope to be.”

- Ken Ibold, Aviation Safety Magazine
 

•  Continuity of training – Many training programs comment on the importance of minimizing the student wash-out rate, yet weather and other factors prevent the continuity of training necessary to allow students to achieve their certificates. A simulation device allows training to continue despite equipment and weather constraints.
   
•   Insurance advantages – Underwriters are committed to reducing risk. Insurance companies look favorably on those flight schools which commit to a disciplined program of taking hours out of the cockpit and putting them into a qualified simulation device.
   
•  Higher gross margins – It’s not what you charge, it’s what you earn. Any way one calculates it, a simulator will generate higher gross margin per hour than an aircraft. See the economic justification here.

Air Orlando in Orlando, FL. (www.flyairorlando.com) uses a MOTUS 622i simulation device to augment the more than 20 aircraft it offers on the flight line. By integrating the MOTUS simulation device into its curriculum, it can provide safer, more efficient and more effective flight training for its students, and generate a stronger bottom line than it can by means of training in aircraft alone.

Fidelity manufactures for FBOs and flight schools the reconfigurable MOTUS 622i, as well as a wide range of type-specific simulation devices for both fixed- wing aircraft and rotorcraft.

Flight students today know about the benefits of full flight simulation in airline training, and expect to be exposed to the latest available technologies. The full motion MOTUS training device is the closest thing to real flight: it totally immerses the student in the flight training scenario…something which simply can’t be done in a fixed-base simulation device. MOTUS can uniquely help drive the growth of your flight training organization.