Leonardo and CAE team up to support International Flight Training School in Italy

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Leonardo and CAE these days introduced the two organizations have designed a joint enterprise referred to as Leonardo CAE Superior Jet Schooling Srl to guidance the functions of the Global Flight Instruction School (“IFTS”) in Italy. The joint venture will provide schooling assistance expert services, including comprehensive routine maintenance and procedure of the M-346 plane and its ground-centered education process, as effectively as procedure of IFTS base amenities.

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The IFTS, a special partnership between the Italian Air Drive (ItAF) and Leonardo, has been established to deliver a complete lead-in to fighter coaching to the Italian Air Drive and international prospects. The IFTS superior education system, centered on the Section IV of the Italian Air Power syllabus, can rely on the M-346 ground-based mostly education procedure, like the superior whole-mission simulator jointly produced by Leonardo and CAE.

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The IFTS is at present positioned at 61st Wing – Galatina  (Apulia Area – South Italy) Italian Air Drive Base and will be relocate, commencing from 2022, to Decimomannu Italian Air Force Base (Sardinia Location – South Italy) exactly where a groundbreaking ceremony was held in December 2020 to formally start off development on a modern day flight instruction campus. 

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“Our dedication to produce to the IFTS prospects a ideal-in-course teaching ability is even further shown by the choice of CAE as our IFTS associate. The joint undertaking represents the best framework to additional leverage our prosperous collaboration on the M-346 floor-primarily based teaching system, while making certain us the agility and overall flexibility to satisfy demanding and tailored purchaser requirements,” explained Leonardo Plane Division Running Director, Marco Zoff. “Leonardo, CAE and the Italian Air Force’s environment-renowned excellence will assurance sophisticated leading level training for the modern air forces at lessened price tag in buy to fulfill a increasing need in highly developed flight teaching.” 

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The industrial partnership concerning Leonardo and CAE in the form of the joint enterprise will control and carry out the working day-to-day operations of the IFTS. The IFTS will run a fleet of 22 M-346 sophisticated jet trainers, an plane that capabilities a assortment of embedded training abilities enabling substantial stay, digital and constructive training. Training will be sent by a cadre of active-obligation Italian Air Power and very experienced worldwide former military teacher pilots.

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“CAE and Leonardo have a longstanding industrial connection and we are delighted to make investments jointly with Leonardo and the Italian Air Pressure in this groundbreaking community-non-public partnership to run the Intercontinental Flight Coaching Faculty,” said Marc-Olivier Sabourin, Vice President and Basic Manager, Defence & Safety Worldwide, CAE.  “The partnership amongst Leonardo and CAE will aid the M-346 Built-in Coaching System, which is a pivotal factor of a fashionable and progressive Guide-In to Fighter Coaching (Carry) method for following era pilots.”

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About Leonardo

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Leonardo, a worldwide higher-engineering business, is among the top 10 world players in Aerospace, Defence and Protection and Italy’s major industrial organization. Arranged into 5 business enterprise divisions, Leonardo has a sizeable industrial presence in Italy, the United Kingdom, Poland and the United states, wherever it also operates as a result of subsidiaries that involve Leonardo DRS (protection electronics), and joint ventures and partnerships: ATR, MBDA, Telespazio, Thales Alenia Area and Avio. Leonardo competes in the most significant intercontinental markets by leveraging its areas of technological and products management (Helicopters, Plane, Aerostructures, Electronics, Cyber Safety and House).
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Mentioned on the Milan Stock Exchange (LDO), in 2019 Leonardo recorded consolidated revenues of €13.8 billion and invested €1.5 billion in Investigate and Improvement. The firm has been aspect of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (DJSI) considering that 2010 and has been named as sustainability international chief in the Aerospace & Defence sector for the second yr in a row of DJSI in 2020.
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Find out additional at www.leonardocompany.com

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About CAE

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CAE’s Defence & Stability enterprise unit focuses on assisting put together our clients to establish and keep the highest concentrations of mission readiness.  We are a environment-class training and mission methods integrator offering a complete portfolio of instruction and operational help answers across multi-area functions – air, land, sea, house and cyber.  We serve our world defence and stability shoppers as a result of regional functions in Canada the United States/Latin The usa Europe/Center East and Asia-Pacific, all of which leverage the entire breadth of CAE’s abilities, technologies and options.
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CAE is a significant technological innovation organization, at the main edge of digital immersion, furnishing solutions to make the globe a safer place. Backed by a record of a lot more than 70 several years of sector firsts, we proceed to reimagine the shopper encounter and revolutionize teaching and operational support options in civil aviation, defence and security, and healthcare. We are the associate of alternative to prospects all over the world who function in sophisticated, higher-stakes and mostly controlled environments, exactly where effective outcomes are vital. Testomony to our customers’ ongoing requires for our alternatives, around 60 p.c of CAE’s profits is recurring in mother nature. We have the broadest global existence in our business, with around 10,000 employees, 160 web-sites and teaching places in more than 35 countries. www.cae.com