Representing Europe's Joint Aviation Authority (JAA), the UK's Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) has presented FlightSafety International with Type Rating Training Organisation (TRTO) approval for its Raytheon Hawker series and Cessna Citation training programmes. The presentation was officially made at this year's NBAA convention in New Orleans.

The type-specific approvals follow last year's general certification of FlightSafety International as an approved flight simulator-based training organisation for European pilots.

The TRTO approval means European operators of the Citation and Hawker series aircraft can receive JAA-compliant type training at FlightSafety learning centres in North America.

FlightSafety has also introduced its Multi-Crew Cooperation (MCC) course.

All JAA-certified pilots with single pilot licences must complete a course of this type before they can operate multi-crew aircraft. Non-JAA pilots can use this course to develop skills required to fly any multi-pilot/multi-crew aircraft.

The company plans to offer its first course starting before the end of 2000, and will repeat it approximately every two weeks. The MCC course will utilise Level "A" King Air C90 and Diamond 1A motion simulators.