The Helicopter Academy to Train by Simulation of Flying (HATSOFF) is a joint venture of Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) of India and CAE of Canada. The HATSOFF Helicopter Training Centre offers a comprehensive turnkey facility for Helicopter flight training on level D Simulator. Beginning in 2010, HATSOFF has started offering complete training solutions for the Bell 412, the Eurocopter Dauphin AS365N3 and Civil/Conventional variants of the HAL built Dhruv Advanced Light Helicopter. Military Dhruv will follow soon

Hindustan Aeronautics Limited (HAL) is a premier Aeronautical organization in India designing, developing, manufacturing and servicing military and civil aero planes and helicopters besides other allied areas, HAL’s activities have been extended to cover India’s space programs as well. Currently HAL is engaged in the manufacture of its indigenously developed Advanced Light Helicopter (ALH), Light Combat Helicopter (LCH), Light Utlity Helicopter (LUH), Light Combat Aircraft (LCA) and Intermediate Jet Trainer (IJT). More than 300 Dhruvs have benn produced as of FY ending 2022.


CAE Inc is the world leader in design and manufacture of civil and military flight simulators and visual systems used to train airline, business jet and military pilots. CAE is the independent civil aviation-training provider in the world, with a global network of more than 20 training centers equipped with more than 100 simulators. CAE has designed widest range of military helicopter simulators for world-wide usage. CAE will also be focusing on high growth markets such as Asia and the Middle East for the civil and military markets and is bolstering its presence on the US Military market. In India, CAE has sold simulators to Air India, Indian Airlines, Jet Airways and Air Deccan and has set up a large training facility in Bangalore to train commercial fixed-wing pilots for Airbus and Boeing 737.