In many places at the training academy, Leonardo pays homage to the rich history of the SIAI-Marchetti factory, where aviation production structures date back to 1915.
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Leonardo started training pilots and technicians in 1965. The company now employs more than 300 training personnel. Alongside the Sesto Calende headquarters, Leonardo students train at Yeovil in the U.K.; Philadelphia and Morristown, New Jersey, in the U.S.; and Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. All training facilities feature the latest synthetic training devices alongside courses for aircrews, rear crews, ground crews, and maintainers. Services include civil-type rating courses, basic training, refresher training, and complete turnkey solutions.
Leonardo’s training mission focuses on safety, effective training, and customer satisfaction, explained Paolo Petrosso, vice president of customer training. Leonardo training courses make use of a range of methods including:
• Ground school: theoretical study, rules and doctrine.
• Synthetic training: full-motion flight simulators, emulation and immersive gaming technology, flight training devices (cockpit and cabin), and part task trainers.
• Live flying training: using customer aircraft at customer locations or AgustaWestland (Leonardo) training centers.
Specialized training offered by Leonardo includes platform and deck landings, load lifting, night flying, night vision devices, search & rescue missions, medical missions, surveillance operations, crew-operated weapons, fleet management, and glass cockpit operations.
Simulator training at Leonardo prepares crews for all kinds of operational environments including offshore, day/night flight, ship deck landing, search & rescue, para-public and military.
Sesto Calende’s Alessandro Marchetti Training Academy features 18 classrooms and a maintenance training hangar with two full systems trainers linked with multi-screen computer- based training and emulations. The academy is the first OEM to be designated as an official FAA Part 142 training center.
This flagship training facility is located at the historic SIAI- Marchetti factory, where aviation production structures date back to 1915. It’s named for aircraft designer and engineer Alessandro Marchetti, who was born in Sesto Calende and manufactured his designs, including seaplanes. Historic buildings on the property include a structure from the 1920s with marble and wood stairs featuring wood that was bonded the same way Marchetti put seaplane propellers together. Leonardo moved to the location in 2005. “It’s an honor for us to work in this place,” Petrosso said.
Leonardo’s 5-year-old simulation building in Sesto Calende features seven full flight simulators and five flight training devices, including an AW169 full flight simulator. They are certified at the highest current international FFS standard (Level 7) by civil aviation regulatory authorities around the world, including the FAA in the USA and EASA in Europe, so that one hour of simulator training equals a one-hour helicopter flight. Leonardo simulators have delivered more than 150,000 hours of training with a simulator reliability percentage of 99.5 percent (as of 2017).
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