Diamond Aircraft Provides airBaltic Training With DA40 NG & DA42-VI Trainers

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Diamond Aircraft has announced airBaltic Training will receive three of Diamond’s DA40NGs and one DA42-VI training aircraft. (Photo courtesy of Diamond Aircraft.)

airBaltic Training, a subsidiary of airline airBaltic, is to receive three single-engine DA40 NGs and one twin-engine DA42-VI training aircraft from Diamond Aircraft in May 2018 for the Pilot Academy airBaltic Training established in December. According to Diamond Aircraft, airBaltic Training has also ordered a DSIM flight training simulator and has an option to add another 11 aircraft. In addition to the single-engine, four-seat DA40 and twin-engine, four-seat DA42, the Austria-based Diamond Aircraft offers the single-engine, two-seat DA20 and twin-engine, seven-seat DA62 aircraft for sale.

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In addition to having an option to receive 11 more aircraft from Diamond Aircraft, airBaltic Training will receive a DSIM training simulator at its Pilot Academy. (Photo courtesy of Diamond Aircraft.)

Fit To Train

airBaltic established its training center in 2010 in Riga, Latvia. About 3,000 pilots, cabin crew members, ground handlers, cargo agents, security personnel, and other aviation professionals train at the facility annually. From it base in Riga, airBaltic services more than 60 destinations spanning Europe, Scandinavia, the Middle East, and the Commonwealth of Independent States.

Since December, Vilmantas Mazonas, airBaltic Training managing director, says the Pilot Academy has received 200-plus applications. The academy’s first class comprises 12 students who will begin theoretical training in March. Class members will begin training in the new aircraft after about three months, Mazonas said.

Diamond notes that pilots, flight instructors, and engineers help create its model-specific flight training devices, which it constructs using actual Diamond aircraft parts, real avionics, high-end visuals, and OEM flight dynamic models.

Safe & Modern

In a statement, Amila Spiegel, Diamond Aircraft sales and marketing director, said the new training aircraft will benefit airBaltic in terms of acquiring a high level of standardization related to maintenance, spare parts, and procedures. The DA40 NG and DA42-VI both include fuel-efficient AE300 Jet-A1 engines and the latest Garmin NXi glass cockpit and Flight Training Devices.

Pauls Calitis, airBaltic Training board member, said that while airBaltic is preparing its future pilots primarily for Bombardier C Series aircraft, it’s “vital that the training aircraft also offers a flight deck with large LCD displays with optimized control and display functions in addition to an overall efficiency of the aircraft.”

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As with the DA40 NG, the DA42-VI shown here includes fuel-efficient AE300 Jet-A1 engines and the latest Garmin NXi glass cockpit. (Photo courtesy of Diamond Aircraft.)

Diamond Aircraft has delivered nearly 1,000 DA42 aircraft since it went into service more than a decade ago. As with the DA42, the DA40 NG features an all-composite design. More than 2,000 DA40s are in service globally.

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Source: Diamond Aircraft