{"id":14986,"date":"2020-03-03T14:28:14","date_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:28:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/?p=14986"},"modified":"2020-03-03T14:28:15","modified_gmt":"2020-03-03T14:28:15","slug":"waterloo-wellington-flight-centre-expands-sim-fleet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/international-news\/waterloo-wellington-flight-centre-expands-sim-fleet\/%20","title":{"rendered":"Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre Expands SIM Fleet"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After many years of owning an Alsim ALX simulator, Waterloo\nWellington Flight Centre (WWFC) in Ontario, Canada is adding an Alsim AL250 to\nits fleet.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/Waterloo-Welling-flight-simedit-959x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14987\" width=\"245\" height=\"261\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Waterloo-Welling-flight-simedit-959x1024.jpg 959w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Waterloo-Welling-flight-simedit-281x300.jpg 281w, https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/Waterloo-Welling-flight-simedit.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><figcaption><em> Pictured from left; Scott Firsing with Alsim, and Bob Connors with WWFC. <\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>WWFC, operating out of the Region of Waterloo International\nAirport, currently has a record number of students. Their 30 aircraft is one of\nthe largest fleets in Canada including 172s, a DA40, PA28R and a PA44. Last\nyear they logged an unprecedented number of flight hours and 1500 hours on\ntheir Alsim ALX. Their new Alsim AL250 will be reconfigurable between several\nclasses of piston aircraft and will be delivered with Alsim\u2019s new VFR visual\nsystem and other latest technologies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe Alsim ALX has been our workhorse since we purchased the\ndevice in 2014. However, due to the large number of students, it became clear\nthat we needed to offload some of PPL and Instrument training from the ALX onto\nanother simulator. The AL250 was the logical choice, which allows the ALX to\nfocus on the integrated flight training programs and MCC training. We have\nworked closely with Alsim and look forward to working even closer during the\nyears to come,\u201d says Bob Connors, General Manager of WWFC.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Their AL250 is scheduled to be delivered in May, prior to\nWWFC\u2019s next college program starting in September.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After many years of owning an Alsim ALX simulator, Waterloo Wellington Flight Centre (WWFC) in Ontario, Canada is adding an Alsim AL250 to its fleet. WWFC, operating out of the Region of Waterloo International Airport, currently has a record number of students. Their 30 aircraft is one of the largest fleets in Canada including 172s, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[114],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-international-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986","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=14986"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14988,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14986\/revisions\/14988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateaviationjournal.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}