A lifelong aviation enthusiast who joined&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;in 2007, Curt came to&nbsp;the publication&nbsp;from the broadcast industry where he was a national science and technology television reporter and producer. He writes on the FBO field, aviation finance, and sustainable aviation and occasionally contributes to&nbsp;AIN&nbsp;sister publication&nbsp;Business Jet Traveler. Curt was a member of the AINtv reporting staff that won the 2008 Aerospace Journalist of the Year award for Best Airshow Daily. That same year, he was a finalist for another AJOYA award. He earned an AJOYA for Best Business Aviation Submission in 2018 and was a finalist in that category in 2021. He received the National Air Transportation Association’s&nbsp; Aviation Journalist Award in 2012 and won a Pegasus Sapphire Business Aviation Award for outstanding journalism in 2021.
Before joining AIN, Curt worked with&nbsp;Consumer Reports’ television division, CRTV, and for several local television news staffs. An honors graduate of the State University of New York at Stony Brook, he earned a master’s degree in broadcast journalism from Boston University in 1995. Curt lives in New York State with his wife and two young sons.

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Flight training provider CAE (Stand 468) recently completed the upgrade of its full-flight simulators for Dassault’s current models to include smoke-generation capability for use in its initial training curriculum.


The Falcon 900EX EASy/2000EX EASy simulator at the company’s Morristown, New Jersey training center received the smoke upgrade last month, the last of the type to do so, bringing it in line with the units in service at CAE’s London/Burgess Hill [corrected 5/17/12] and Dubai facilities, which received the capability last year.


The smoke-generation feature is used by instructors in developing realistic pilot training experiences for smoke in the cockpit situations and for familiarizing crews with the use of oxygen masks and smoke goggles, allowing them to see the instruments in those conditions.


CAE also uses the smoke-generation capability to provide training for <a href="http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/nbaa-convention-news/2011-10-11/visionsafe-clears-cabin-smoke">VisionSafe</a>’s emergency vision assurance system (Evas) on Dassault aircraft. The Evas is a self-contained system that uses a battery-powered blower, a filter and a transparent envelop to displace smoke and provide a clear-sight corridor to the instruments.


Last year the company’s Dubai location received a Falcon 7X simulator with the smoke generator already installed. At the same time, it upgraded its 7X units at Morristown and Burgess Hill, which were installed in 2007.

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