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L-3 Link Selected by Cathay Pacific to Supply Airbus A350 Full Flight Simulators

L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) announced today that its Crawley, U.K.-based operation has been awarded a contract from Cathay Pacific to deliver two Airbus A350 Full Flight Simulators (FFS), two Pilot Transition (PT) trainers and multiple Flight Management System (FMS) trainers. With this award, Cathay Pacific becomes the first customer to select L-3 Link’s new A350 training product solutions.

The simulators and trainers will be installed at Cathay Pacific’s Flight Training Centre located at Hong Kong International Airport. All systems are scheduled to be fully operational during the third quarter of 2015 in order to support fleet introduction the following year.

“Cathay Pacific has a high level of confidence in our technical approach and capability to manage a development program based on the advanced state of our A350 simulation solutions,” said Mark Gasson, vice president of L-3 Link UK. “Meeting our customer’s cost, schedule, reliability and support expectations, while providing a highly realistic pilot training experience, is at the core of our simulation solutions on this milestone Airbus program.”

The Airbus A350 training equipment is based on L-3 Link’s RealitySeven™ simulation architecture. The A350 FFS, which uses a wide range of commercial-off-the-shelf technologies, will also be equipped with Link UK’s market-leading eM2K motion system. The suite of training devices will replicate the performance of an Airbus A350 equipped with Rolls Royce’s Trent XWB engines. Prior to training on A350 simulators and PT trainers, aircrews will undergo classroom instruction on FMS trainers to familiarize themselves with flight management system operation and flight plan generation. L-3 Link will also be delivering two brief/debrief stations.

L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) is a world leader in providing intelligent total training solutions for operators and maintainers across a wide range of military, civil and commercial platforms. L-3 Link’s innovative solutions provide a full spectrum of state-of-the-art training technologies, including high-fidelity immersive simulations, as well as distributed academic and interactive courseware. The company has delivered military, civil and commercial training systems to customer locations throughout North America, Europe, Asia, the Middle East and the Pacific Rim. L-3 Link is headquartered in Arlington, Texas, with key bases of operation in Binghamton, N.Y.; Orlando, Fla.; Oklahoma City, Okla.; Broken Arrow, Okla.; Phoenix, Ariz.; and Crawley, U.K. For more information, please visit the company’s website at www.link.com.

Headquartered in New York City, L-3 employs approximately 48,000 people worldwide and is a prime contractor in C3ISR (Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance) systems, platform and logistics solutions, and national security solutions. L-3 is also a leading provider of a broad range of electronic systems used on military and commercial platforms. The company reported 2012 sales of $13.1 billion. To learn more about L-3, please visit the company’s website at www.L-3com.com.

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