European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - August 23, 1978, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Be u see out the window. I such As trucks moving across runways can Ruby instructors to test Pilot skills. Jutt images Are new. Still used As Well is thei method. An enormous vertical Model of a Pletsc with animals cars and other de a by a Remote controlled to camera to j with the plane movement. It appears more"1 the computer image but the pictures Are 3 that exist on the Model  is so Good Moffitt said that after the i training in Europe he will Only need two notice flying a real Airbus to qualify to Fly the first 12 hours however will be with an observe i simulators Are used almost 24 hours Ai different airlines such As Eastern Purchase tins from Lufthansa., along with the German airline personnel 8,5 photos by Gus Schuettler technicalities of different aircraft on the Sam i to the reality of simulator training an i advantage is Cost savings. One Hoar of Sam e is one eighth the Cost of real flying time. R Airbus simulator is in Toulouse France. Byr 1s79. Eastern will have its own Airbus Simula and the other Eastern flight Crew members Aret the plane they soon jul be flying mis is so automated it s like flying a giant that you program. The Pilot can actually pro i flight select the Speed headings approach. It Sid machine said Moffitt. I s Purchase of the european plane at a Cost of million each was a Boon to Airbus industries the Portum owned jointly by France West Ger of Spain that manufactures the plane. Tantal Purchase presented the Bret Seri to the . Dominance in civil aviation however recently helped regain National i .2 billion Sale to United airlines of 1 version of the wide bodied twin engine rot an unexpected Bonus when it was an r would buy the european plane. Suddenly Ese Calls from europeans travelling to the wanted to Fly Eastern within the . I we did t have the Airbus in operation said it did t matter. They just wanted to Fly we could t have gotten the same results with a i Worth of advertising said Richard wild e director for Eastern. Classroom at Lufthansa training Center in Beeheim Germany. Meanwhile Back on the ground often people think an airline is Only Beautiful stewardesses and rugged pilots said Gerhard Kemper. The fact i that 80 per cent of the people who work for an airline Are ground  Kemper is general manager of the Lufthansa training Center in Beeheim a town in the bergs Tasse Region of Germany 40 Miles South of Frank Furt. It s Here that Lufthansa one of the world s 10 largest airlines trains All its ground personnel. The Nigger pilots do their learning in Bre men and on simulators in Frankfurt. Steward esses also Are trained in Frankfurt but the car go clerk from Karachi the ticket agent from Cairo the reservations clerk from Rio  come to study in a Complex of modern Multi levelled buildings terraced into a wooded Ger Man Hillside. The Beauty and serenity of the setting make i seem More like a resort than a school. But As you wander through the Halls and see classrooms of Stu dents hard at work you feel As if you Are on a College Campus. Training programs at Beeheim vary from on week to seven in length. Sixty five different courses Are offered in two languages English and German. Forty five per cent of the students do not speak German Kemper said. The language of aviation is English. All Lufthansa employees must speak en-glish.". Every year about 5,000 Lufthansa employees rep resenting 84 countries study at Beeheim. It s a costly procedure but Worth the expense Kemper feels. Many airlines have what he termed a decentralized approach to training with regional training centers in different countries or on the Job training programs. The Lufthansa method provides a uniform level of training throughout the world Kemp or said plus other benefits. We bring the employee from Jakarta to  give him a single room with a Bath and Telephone something he s never had before. People fro third world countries Are highly impressed with  later it pays off in motivation he said. Then there is product knowledge. All the students Are flown to Germany on Lufthansa planes naturally so they gain a familiarity with the aircraft. Dur ing their stay in Beeheim they get opportunities to see Germany during weekend excursions to co Logne Munich Hamburg and Dusseldorf. This is particularly helpful to ticket agents who might later be asked questions by customers plan Ning a trip to  of the students at Beeheim Are second timers Back for advanced courses. And Many Don Teven work for Lufthansa. Just As with its flight train ing in Frankfurt Lufthansa Sells courses at seethe into other airlines. The Serbeim Complex might resemble country club with its swimming Pool Sauna posh lounges and social Calendar of movies an dances but the emphasis is on Tody. Lights go oat at Midnight. Students attend classes fro six to seven hours each Day. There Are tests and Homework. Nonetheless everyone seems to enjoy it. During recent break Between their courses in air freight Ofra Yacov of Tel Aviv desire Nord from Stockholm Fouad Yass of Cairo and Sango Ibrahim from Abid Jan Ivory coast were enjoying the Sunshine and surroundings. It s great Here. You meet people from All  Nord. " Yek it s very comfortable Here said  you do get  Kemper said one Day last october the approximately 400 students at Beeheim at that time were from 54  All the countries Are Friendly with one another. We worried that there would be problems when people from one country were put in the same class with students from an unfriendly country such a arabs and israelis. But it worked beautifully. There were no  . Ansa s Frankfurt Center. 23, 1978 German airline s training Center at Beeheim is housed in these buildings. The stars and stripes Poge 15