Bell has trained more than 140,000 pilots over 65 years and will be continuing this good work on the Bell 505 across its nascent certified training facility network. France's Helideal will be the first such academy.

Heli Protection Europe has added to its roster of Entrol simulators with an A18 model based on Piaggio's Avanti II turboprop. Users can traverse a high resolution version of Italy.

Entrol's latest simulator was modelled on flight data from a real AW139 to make it as real as possible.