NAV CANADA selects UFA’s ATCoach® Air Traffic Control (ATC) Radar Simulator

WOBURN, MA, November 12, 2009 – UFA, INC., announced today that NAV CANADA has selected UFA’s ATCoach® and ATVoice® ATC Radar Simulation products for installation at nine (9) sites in support of NAV CANADA’s Controller Training program.

NAV CANADA will deploy the UFA ATCoach and ATVoice products to all seven (7) Canadian Area Control Centers (ACCs), the NAV CANADA Technical Support Center (TSC) in Ottawa and the NAV CANADA Training Center (NCTC) in Cornwall. The company wide deployment will include over three hundred (300) simulation positions fully equipped with UFA’s ATVoice Voice Recognition and Response technology. UFA’s ATCoach Radar Simulator will be used in both standalone mode and integrated with NAV CANADA’s automation system, CAATS, to allow for all levels of training with a single simulation product suite.

UFA has already completed delivery of eleven (11) ATC Tower Simulators based on the UFA ATTower® and ATVoice products. UFA’s state of the art ATC Training Simulators equipped with the industry leading ATVoice Voice Recognition and Response technology will allow NAV CANADA to achieve cost savings while improving and maintaining the highest level of Controller training.
NAV CANDA will utilize the same simulation technology currently in use by the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) in the United States on both the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM) and the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System (STARS) programs, and by the Deutsche Flugsicherung (DFS) in Germany at their Training Center in Langen and all ACCs.

Headquartered in Woburn, MA, UFA is a privately held software engineering firm specializing in Air Traffic Management (ATM) simulation products. UFA’s product line is in use around the world and includes ATCoach, ATTower, ATView®, ATVoice and ATRadio®. UFA maintains additional offices in Gaithersburg, MD. The company’s wholly owned subsidiary, ATCSim GmbH, is located in Mainz and Kaufbeuren, Germany.

Contact:

UFA, INC. (www.ufainc.com)
12 South Summit Avenue, Suite 220
Gaithersburg, MD 20877
USA

Anja Bellmann
UFA Marketing Department
anja@ufainc.com
+49 1522 28 95 141