The company will in 2012 establish an advanced flight simulator for the Sikorsky S-92 helicopters at the airport. The simulator that costs 400 to 500 million kroner will be one of very few S-92 simulators in operation worldwide, the Aftenbladet enlightened under the Sola Conference on Aviation.
It's Statoil, which demands that Norway should establish Bristow training center with a simulator at Sola. Something similar has happened in the past when the contract award by the Norwegian continental shelf flights.
The reason for it all is that the Norwegian state-owned oil company recently signed a contract with Bristow Norway for flights on the Norwegian continental shelf for two billion. The creation of the simulator is likely to lead to increased demand from other S-92 operators from around the globe.
Perhaps it's been moving to Norway?
