Meanwhile, our own Kodiak program development must continue, so Mark and I found ourselves back in Spokane to wrap up the Kodiak training of two more of our pilots from Papua New Guinea, Jonathan Federwitz and Remi Vanwereskerken.
As before, the
Spokane Turbine Center course had given them excellent transition into the airplane, and our week with them was a pleasure. STC gave us free use of their facilities, and had the airplane and simulator reserved for our use as well. Since we don't have a full-time airplane at JAARS in Waxhaw, STC provides us with a very valuable resource for projects like this.
The simulator offers an incredibly realistic Kodiak cockpit in which to perform operations and emergency procedures that would be too hazardous in the actual airplane. It even has a database that "covers the world," offering acurate terrain visuals as well as a complete aviation facitilies database. The two trainees were able to conduct most of their simulator training in the familiar terrain and environment of Papua New Guinea. Here you can see them on a road in a valley in PNG after a simulated emergency landing (see the car on the road?).
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