{"id":544,"date":"2008-02-19T09:26:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/indianaviationnews.net\/avicareers\/?p=544"},"modified":"2008-02-19T09:26:00","modified_gmt":"2008-02-19T09:26:00","slug":"success-built-on-simulation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/2008\/02\/success-built-on-simulation.html","title":{"rendered":"Success built on simulation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">Montreal:<\/span> Founded in 1987 by five people who had enjoyed working together on a research project at Concordia University, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mechtronix.com\/\">Mechtronix<\/a> has evolved into a multi-million-dollar, global manufacturer of high-tech flight simulators for the aviation industry.<br \/>During a tour of its Montreal plant this week, Mr. Herve pointed out simulators in various stages of completion destined for Turkey, Israel, El Salvador and China.<br \/>Business is booming, thanks to the rapid economic development of countries like China and India and a worldwide shortage of pilots.<br \/>It is estimated North America will need twice as many pilots by 2020.<br \/>South America will need three times as many, India four times and China five times its current number.<br \/>&#8220;Pilot poaching&#8221; is now a fact of life in the aviation industry, with large international carriers luring away experienced individuals from smaller companies, who are then left to recruit new people.<br \/>&#8220;A huge number of training organizations are being set up around the world,&#8221; Mr. Herve, 44, said.<br \/>Many of those cent res are Mechtronix clients, as are the Tier 2 and 3 airlines that are compelled to do much more in-house training because of the high cost of doing it externally and pilot turnover rates that average 30% annually.<br \/>Because flight simulators are usually delivered six to 18 months after an order is placed, Mr. Herve already has a good idea what the 2008-09 numbers will be, and they&#8217;re consistent with recent rates of growth. This summer, the company will expand its local base by constructing a second building on property adjacent to the Montreal premises it has occupied since 1997.<br \/>But that&#8217;s old news for Mr. Herve. He is already looking ahead two years. By then, he expects the company to open its first plant outside Canada.<br \/><span style=\"color: rgb(153, 0, 0);\">18\/02\/08 Paul Delean\/Canwest News Service\/Financial Post, Canada <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Montreal: Founded in 1987 by five people who had enjoyed working together on a research project at Concordia University, Mechtronix<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}