{"id":13042,"date":"2019-06-09T01:38:23","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T01:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=13042"},"modified":"2019-06-09T01:38:24","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T01:38:24","slug":"university-of-dubuque-acquires-alsim-al250-simulator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/state-news\/iowa\/university-of-dubuque-acquires-alsim-al250-simulator\/%20","title":{"rendered":"University of Dubuque Acquires Alsim AL250 Simulator"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Alsim is proud to announce the sale of an AL250 simulator to\nthe University of Dubuque. The simulator will be installed in the University\u2019s\nEd Babka Aviation Learning Center, a new state-of-the-art flight operations\ncenter scheduled to open fall 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The University of Dubuque has a growing Aviation program,\nincluding Flight Operations and Aviation Management programs, both accredited\nby the Aviation Accreditation Board, International (AABI). The University is\ncurrently using Cessna 172S, Piper PA-28R and PA44 aircraft to complete\ntraining requirements in the Private Pilot (PPL), Instrument Rating (IR),\nCommercial Pilot (CPL), and Flight Instructor training course outlines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe ALSIM AL250 was designed with Universities like Dubuque\nin mind. The simulator is compact, reliable and robust, with multiple flight\nmodels close to very popular training aircraft making it an ideal PPL, IR and\nCPL trainer. Despite its relatively small physical footprint, it contains an\nindustry leading 250-degree field of view, high definition visuals and\nheavy-duty control loading, providing students and instructors with complete\nimmersion. This entire combination equates to very effective VFR training,\u201d\nsays Dr. Scott Firsing of Alsim\u2019s North America office in Texas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With more than 30 installed worldwide, the AL250 is proven\nto be cost-effective and clearly shows markedly better mastery of flight maneuvers\nand procedures, with students learning faster. The University of Dubuque\u2019s\nAL250 will be equipped with Alsim\u2019s own avionics system, ALSIM GPS.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Alsim AL250 will provide our students with advanced\nsimulation capabilities not only for flight training, but also in courses such\nas human factors, where they can utilize it in order to study various aspects\nof human machine interactions.&nbsp; This\ndevice will give us the ability to take our program to the next level in\nproviding our students a well-rounded education that will prepare them for the\nnext evolution in the aviation industry,\u201d says Chaminda Prelis, Head of\nAviation Programs at University of Dubuque.\n\nThe AL250 will be available for professional\ndemonstrations at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh in Alsim\u2019s booth located in Hangar B,\nbooth 2016.\n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Alsim is proud to announce the sale of an AL250 simulator to the University of Dubuque. The simulator will be installed in the University\u2019s Ed Babka Aviation Learning Center, a new state-of-the-art flight operations center scheduled to open fall 2019. The University of Dubuque has a growing Aviation program, including Flight Operations and Aviation Management [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":13043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-iowa"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/ALSIM-172-1.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13044,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13042\/revisions\/13044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}