Lilium partners with FlightSafety International on flight simulator training

Lil­i­um has part­nered with pre­mier pro­fes­sion­al avi­a­tion train­ing com­pa­ny, Flight­Safe­ty Inter­na­tion­al (FSI) as the exclu­sive devel­op­er and provider for flight train­ing devices for the Lil­i­um Jet.

This will include indus­try-lead­ing, immer­sive, and mixed-real­i­ty sim­u­la­tors for train­ing, as well as an ear­ly flight sim­u­la­tor rep­re­sen­ta­tive of the Lil­i­um Jet cock­pit, to be used by Lil­i­um engi­neers.

Known as the e‑Sim, it will be inte­grat­ed into Lilium’s ground-based air­craft sys­tems inte­gra­tion lab­o­ra­to­ry, and used by Lil­i­um teams as part of the test­ing and cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the Lil­i­um Jet.

The e‑Sim will be an impor­tant asset in the Lil­i­um Jet devel­op­ment pro­gram, enabling pilot famil­iari­sa­tion before the start of flight test­ing and an appro­pri­ate envi­ron­ment for the ver­i­fi­ca­tion of air­craft require­ments. The e‑Sim will also sup­port type-cer­ti­fi­ca­tion of the Lil­i­um Jet by pro­vid­ing means of com­pli­ance for demon­strat­ing that the air­craft con­forms to cer­ti­fi­ca­tion require­ments.

Addi­tion­al­ly, FSI will devel­op and deliv­er train­ing pro­grams, includ­ing online train­ing pro­gram mod­ules, for the qual­i­fi­ca­tion of future Lil­i­um pilots and mechan­ics world­wide. FSI oper­ates the world’s largest fleet of advanced full-flight sim­u­la­tors at loca­tions in the Unit­ed States, Cana­da, France, and the UK.

FSI has man­u­fac­tured sim­u­la­tors for Air­bus, Boe­ing, Bom­bardier, Embraer, and many oth­er com­mer­cial air­craft man­u­fac­tur­ers. Its train­ing devices are approved by the FAA, EASA, and oth­er avi­a­tion reg­u­la­to­ry author­i­ties world­wide. Qual­i­fi­ca­tion of the first train­ing devices and devel­op­ment of train­ing pro­grams will be sup­port­ed by the exper­tise of Lufthansa Avi­a­tion Train­ing.

Sebastien Borel, Chief Com­mer­cial Offi­cer, Lil­i­um said: “This part­ner­ship rep­re­sents anoth­er crit­i­cal mile­stone that will sup­port the Lil­i­um Jet’s progress through cer­ti­fi­ca­tion and com­mer­cial launch.

“Thanks to FSI’s vast expe­ri­ence and exper­tise in the field of air­craft sim­u­la­tors, we look for­ward to enabling all Lil­i­um pilots to get famil­iar with our air­craft before com­mer­cial launch.”

Nate Speis­er, EVP Sales and Mar­ket­ing, Flight­Safe­ty Inter­na­tion­al said: “It is our mis­sion to deliv­er best-in-class pilot train­ing, glob­al­ly, while work­ing with new part­ners to bring new, sus­tain­able modes of trans­port with cost-effec­tive train­ing capa­bil­i­ties. Train­ing empow­ers and pre­pares pilots for the world of eVTOL flight.”

Last week, Lil­i­um began wind tun­nel test­ing on a com­plete 1:2.5 scale mod­el Lil­i­um Jet at the Ger­man-Dutch Wind Tun­nels facil­i­ty in Mark­nesse, Nether­lands.

Lil­i­um Begins Wind Tun­nel Test­ing on 1:2.5 Scale Jet Pro­to­type at Europe’s Largest Wind Tun­nel Facil­i­ty