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News Item Aircare FACTS® Training Expands Hypoxia Awareness to Russia (OLYMPIA, WA - June 4, 2008). Aircare FACTS® Training, a division Aircare Solutions Group, recently completed its first emergency procedures training exercise in Russia. Contracted by SAT Airlines, based in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk, Aircare FACTS® provided Hypoxia Awareness Training to eighty crewmembers over a four day training period. Using the Aircare FACTS® Hypoxia Awareness Training device, the world's only computer controlled hypoxia trainer, in a safe classroom environment, Aircare FACTS® delivered real-time computer assessments of the psychomotor and cognitive impairments resulting from the created hypoxia. The device is capable of simulating operating altitudes to 30,000 feet familiarizing crewmembers with the dangerous and paralyzing effects of hypoxia in a safe, classroom setting. During the training, crewmembers have the opportunity to experience and learn to recognize their own individual symptoms of hypoxia. The Aircare FACTS® HAT™ changes the composition of the gas mixture inhaled, thereby eliminating the potential risks and after effects involved in using a decompression chamber. "Our goal is to be the frontrunner in providing new and challenging training experiences for corporate crewmembers", said Doug Mykol, CEO, of the Aircare Solutions Group. He went on to say, "The Aircare FACTS® Hypoxia Awareness Trainer is used in all Aircare FACTS® emergency training programs or can be brought to the operator, on-site, as we did for this successful training in Russia." Hypoxia awareness can be a life saving experience. Since the Payne Stewart and Helios accidents, high altitude and hypoxia awareness has been a priority for crewmembers. With the ever-increasing costs of training, travel, the loss of the crewmember's time traveling to decompression chamber sites and the possible negative side effects inherent in decompression chamber training, the Aircare FACTS® Hypoxia Awareness Training device is now an alternative, which can be transported to any training site in the world. For further information on Hypoxia Awareness Training, call Aircare FACTS® at 360/754-9805. About Aircare FACTS® Training Since 1981, Aircare FACTS® Training International has been the leading industry standard for Crewmember Emergency Procedures Training. Aircare FACTS® is a unique, human factors based program designed to train pilots, flight engineers/mechanics, and corporate flight attendants in aircraft emergency evacuation and inflight safety procedures. All are practiced and simulated in the Aircare FACTS® full-size, full motion cockpit and cabin emergency procedures simulator, the pool and the Aircare FACTS® Underwater Egress Dunker. Aircare FACTS® designed and built the world's only mobile corporate, cockpit and cabin Aircrew Emergency Simulators. Training in the full-size simulators has capabilities unmatched in the industry and provides a realism not available anywhere else. Aircare FACTS® is internationally recognized for thorough, intensive, research-based training programs. Aircare FACTS® trains over 800 crewmembers, and executive frequent flyers per year. Aircare FACTS® Training is available at Training Centers around the country or at private hangars worldwide. For additional information on Aircare FACTS® Training, visit: http://www.factstraining.com. About Aircare Solutions Group Aircare Solutions Group provides a wide variety of corporate aviation specific-training programs, services, and aviation safety products to private and charter operators. With our combination of aviation-specific services, Aircare Solutions Group has established itself as the one-stop-shop for corporate aviation. Our divisions include: Aircare™ International - Inflight emergency medical training and products Access® Assistance - Worldwide 24/7 travel and medical assistance services Aircare FACTS® Training - Training - Known as the industry standard for Inflight Emergency Procedures Training for corporate flight crewmembers Aircare Crews - Professional and contract staffing solutions for corporate aviation ASG Interactive - Computer based aviation training EMTA - Private and corporate safety and first aid training solutions Quality Resources - Aviation consulting and technical writing For additional information on the Aircare Solutions Group of companies, visit http://www.aircaresolutionsgroup.com Press Contact: Dale Eldredge, 360.754.9805 or dale.e@aircaresolutionsgroup.com. ###
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