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- Well today, at the
European Partnership Flight,

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we toured the Portuguese
Maintenance Simulator,

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which is a virtual training
center that allows them

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to train multiple people at once

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without utilizing real aircraft

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and ground support equipment.

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It's a much quieter environment

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that allows the trainer to communicate

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better with the trainees.

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It's less pressure and you're not having

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to use your aircraft that
you ought to be flying.

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So of all the partner nations
that are in attendance here,

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the Portuguese and the Romanians

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are the only ones that
currently have this system.

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So, it allows us to see some
of these best practices,

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and maybe take those home and try to get

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those systems for us as well.