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Frasca
Model 342
Turbine Helicopter Procedures
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Model 342 Customers: Bell Helicopter, Colombian Police, SafeFlight Instrument Co.,
Kestrel Aviation, Japanese Coast Guard
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The Model 342 is designed to support all types of
flight training and comes ready to teach IFR and VFR procedural, decisional or perceptual
motor activities. Basic operations that can be performed include communication,
navigation, preflight, IFR and Air Traffic Control procedures. Cockpit familiarization and
basic power plant management skills are made available, as well as in-flight functions and
normal or emergency procedures. In addition, aircraft control, attitude instrument flying,
navigation planning and emergency assessment can be integrated into training activities.
The 342 utilizes high technology to provide realistic simulation. |
Flight
Performance Capabilities
Simulator performance is
typical of a light turbine-powered single engine helicopter. Control movement and feel, as
well as the effects of control operation on the simulated flight are highly realistic:
- Takeoff and landing
- Climb, cruise, descent, turns
- Hover (within and outside of ground effect)
- Translational flight
- Autorotation
- Stability
- Tail rotor failure
- Retreating blade stall
Standard Features
& Options
- Flight Instruments: Standard package includes; air-speed
indicator, directional gyro, pressure altimeter, and vertical speed indicator.
- Functional Switches
- Sound Simulation
- Full IFR Avionics
- Engine and Systems Simulation
- Flight Controls
- Graphical Instructor Station (GISt)
- FAA approved, 14 CFR parts 61 and 141
- TruVision
visual system is optional. Various display configurations are available.
- Other options available.

Click icons
above for videos of a Frasca 342 in flight and Helicopter visual database.
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Scenes
from Frasca International's TruVision Visual System
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on the images below for a larger view.
     
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