What It’s Like to Fly a Hawaiian Airlines A330 Into Beijing
Photo Credit: Hawaiian Airlines trains its own pilots and pilots from other airlines in its A330 flight simulator at its Honolulu headquarters. Hawaiian Airlines
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Having an in-house simulator of the type that Hawaiian Airlines now has seems like a huge investment, but it could turn out to be a money-maker, as well.
Hawaiian Airlines inaugurated direct flights from Honolulu to Beijing on April 16, but I made the trip on one of the airline's A330s a day earlier -- or it sure felt like it.
I did it in the co-pilot's seat of an A330 Full Flight Simulator built by SIM Industries, a subsidiary of Lockheed Martin, that's located in a giant warehouse in Honolulu at Hawaiian Airlines' headquarters.
Hawaiian Airlines trains its own pilots in the simulator, has a contract to train Fiji Airways pilots, and recently got certification from China and hopes to engage some Chinese airlines to
