China Southern Airlines (NYSE: ZNH) (HKSE: 1055), the largest airline in The People's Republic of China for the past 23 years, is pleased to announce that its new SFOQA Flight Training System at its Zhuhai-based Flight Training Center, has won a CAAC Technical Innovation Award.
Recurrent flight simulator training is mandatory for every airline pilot in the world and unless pilots using these flight simulators are monitored by both expert technicians and specially created computer programs, final test evaluations might be suspect.
For some time, the monitoring and evaluation of these flight-training courses has created a unique "bottleneck" in improving flight-training quality creating a classic "Man verses Machine" scenario.
While other airlines continually work to solve this dilemma, China Southern is the first airline in China to find its own independent solution.
On February 1, 2002, the SFOQA system (created by China Southern Airlines technicians) debuted. The SFOQA is short for Simulator Flight Operation Quality Analysis and was unveiled at the Zhuhai Flight Training Center, a subsidiary of China Southern Airlines.
In essence, SFOQA simultaneously collects flight training computer evaluation, information on pilot movement and simulator flight training visual computer-based teaching. By using each of the programs simultaneously, the playback of a pilot's simulator test flight and the inspection of that data can "replay" every movement of the pilot thus offering a complete turnkey program evaluation.
The successful utilization of this new SFOQA system will aid China Southern Airlines in evaluating pilot performance and work to improve the flight training center services offered in
Zhuhai.
The largest flight-training center in China, the Zhuhai Flight Training Center, located in southern China near the border with Macau, was built at an investment of 1 Billion RMB ($120M USD) and operates flight simulators for the Boeing 737, 757, 777 and Airbus A320.
The largest airline in The People's Republic of China for the past 23 years, China Southern Airlines connects more than 80 cities around the globe. Major business and vacation destinations served in China include: Beijing, Chengdu, Guangzhou, Guilin, Hong Kong, Kunming, Shanghai, Shenzhen and Wuhan and as well as international service, including: Amsterdam, Bangkok, Fukuoka, Hanoi, Ho Chi Minh City, Kuala Lumpur, Jakarta, Los Angeles, Manila, Melbourne, Osaka, Penang, Phnom Penh, Seoul, Singapore, Sydney and Tokyo. |
