Day 50 - October 21st

Yesterday we started the visual acceptance. We reposition the simulator to each of the 15 custom airport models we purchased and verify that everything is modeled correctly and meets our training requirements. We taxi the aircraft all around the airport model, fly in and out and check out the operations under low visibility conditions. It is very tedious, but has to be done to make sure we don't have distractions in the visual scene and that there aren't any issues that would cause 'negative' training.

Visual acceptance will continue through the end of this week, then we'll start doing what's called 'snag clearance.' Snags are complaints that we have written against the simulator either during the testing we did in Montreal, or here in Phoenix. CAE addresses each snag and makes a fix or takes some other action then resubmits the issue for us to test again.