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Bell 505

Bell 505

Aviation Authority Certification:
Our simulators are accreditable by FAA and CASA, with GeoSim boasting over 70 Civil Aviation Accreditations. Contact us to learn more about the simulator hours you can claim.
Startup Training:
Our aircraft flightmodel, refined with input from expert pilots, ensures precise startup and in-flight performance training.
Location-Specific Training:
Our simulators include worldwide scenery with GPS-derived contours, Jeppeson navigation data, and access to over 37,000 airports, enabling location-specific training tailored to your needs. We can even create custom high detail areas for you!
Communication Refinement:
Hone critical communication skills for high-risk operations, ensuring seamless collaboration with international crews, regardless of accents or varied terminology.
Aircraft Coordination:
Our multi-simulator connections enable comprehensive training for complex procedures, including multi-aircraft aerial firefighting and communication protocols.
Quality Meets Affordability:
Achieve excellence at an economical price. Ask us about the attractive ROI and aviation credits available. Add more training, while saving more fuel, risk and “wear and tear”.
Battle-Tested:
Our Bell 505 inherets over 20 years of design experience and improvements, resulting in a sturdy and reliable device.
Emergency Rehearsal:
Prepare for critical scenarios repeatedly, refining life-saving reflexes without the risk of real-world consequences. Practice and perfect.
Custom Emergency Procedures (EPs) include:

(But not limited to)

  • Engine failure
  • Engine fire
  • Engine start abnormalities
  • Hot-start scenarios
  • FADEC-related abnormalities
  • Generator/electrical failures
  • Fuel system failures
  • Hydraulic system failures
  • Avionics failures
  • PFD/MFD failures
  • Communication failures
  • Engine over-temperature conditions
  • Engine over-torque conditions
  • Rotor RPM abnormalities
  • Control system abnormalities
  • Instrument failures
  • Adverse weather
  • Low-visibility operations
  • Autorotation scenarios
  • Multiple or compound failures

Tell us how your Bell 505 is configured and we can discuss replicating it.

GeoSim Bell 505 Flight Training Device

The GeoSim Bell 505 simulator provides a realistic and cost-effective training platform for one of the world’s modern light turbine helicopters.

Designed around the Bell 505 cockpit, controls, instrumentation and flight characteristics, the simulator provides pilots with an effective environment for aircraft familiarisation, startup and shutdown procedures, VFR and IFR training, emergency procedures and scenario-based operational training.

Aviation Authority Certification

GeoSim simulators are designed with aviation authority accreditation requirements in mind, with GeoSim having extensive experience obtaining Civil Aviation approvals for its training devices.

Depending on configuration and jurisdiction, the Bell 505 can be developed to meet applicable training and accreditation requirements.

Contact us to discuss the certification and training credits applicable to your operation.

Startup & Systems Training

The Bell 505’s modern turbine engine and digital cockpit make correct systems knowledge and procedural training particularly important.

The simulator allows pilots to repeatedly practise:

  • Pre-start procedures
  • Engine startup
  • Systems checks
  • Normal operating procedures
  • Shutdown procedures
  • Abnormal indications
  • Emergency procedures

Procedures can be repeated as often as necessary without consuming fuel, aircraft hours or engine cycles.

Garmin G1000H NX Cockpit Training

The Bell 505’s replica Garmin G1000H NXi integrated avionics suite provides pilots with a sophisticated digital cockpit.

GeoSim can reproduce the aircraft’s avionics environment to provide training in:

  • Primary Flight Display operations
  • Multi-Function Display operations
  • Navigation
  • Flight planning
  • GPS procedures
  • Engine and systems monitoring
  • Situational awareness
  • Instrument procedures

This enables pilots to become familiar with cockpit workflows and avionics procedures before operating the actual aircraft.

Custom Panels and Avionics

We can easily customise to your exact layout.
These include:

  • Custom Gauge layouts
  • Fire Drop Systems (Vondran/FRDS)
  • Nav Radios (ie Bendix vs GNC255)
  • GPS Units (GTN750/650, GNS530/430, TracMap, AgNav)
  • And much much more!
Not listed? Tell us what you need.

Location-Specific Training

GeoSim simulators provide worldwide scenery with GPS-derived terrain and extensive airport and navigation data.

We can also create custom high-detail operational areas, allowing pilots to train in recognisable environments relevant to their actual operation.

Training can therefore include:

  • Local airports and helipads
  • Confined areas
  • Mountainous terrain
  • Coastal operations
  • Urban environments
  • Remote operating areas
  • Customer-specific operational locations

Train where you actually fly.

Helicopter Handling & Operational Training

Helicopter operations require precise aircraft control, particularly during low-speed and low-level operations.

The Bell 505 simulator provides a controlled environment for practising:

  • Hovering
  • Take-off and landing
  • Circuit procedures
  • Approaches
  • Confined-area operations
  • Low-level operations
  • Navigation
  • Instrument procedures
  • Adverse weather scenarios
  • Operational decision-making

Pilots can practise and repeat manoeuvres without placing the aircraft or crew at unnecessary risk.

Realistic Flight Model

GeoSim develops its aircraft flight models with input from experienced pilots to provide realistic handling and performance characteristics.

The Bell 505 flight model can be refined in conjunction with experienced Bell 505 pilots to reproduce the aircraft’s behaviour throughout normal, abnormal and emergency operations.

The objective is simple:

Create realism in a simulated environment.

Communication & Crew Coordination

Many helicopter missions require pilots to communicate simultaneously with air traffic control, ground personnel, other aircraft and operational teams.

The simulator provides an environment in which pilots can develop communication discipline while managing aircraft systems and operational workload.

This is particularly valuable for:

  • Emergency services
  • Search and rescue
  • Utility operations
  • Firefighting support
  • Police and government operations
  • Commercial helicopter operators
  • Advanced pilot training

Immersive Visual Options

Helicopter training depends heavily on external visual references.

GeoSim can provide a range of visual configurations, from compact display systems through to immersive wrap-around and DOME visual systems.

These can provide enhanced peripheral vision for:

  • Hovering
  • Approaches
  • Confined-area operations
  • Low-level flight
  • Mountain operations
  • Landing-zone training
  • Emergency procedures

The visual solution can be configured around the customer’s training requirements, available space and budget.

Train Without Risking the Aircraft

Every hour spent conducting training in an operational Bell 505 involves fuel, maintenance, aircraft availability and exposure to risk.

Simulation allows organisations to transfer appropriate training tasks away from the aircraft.

This can reduce:

  • Fuel consumption
  • Aircraft operating hours
  • Engine cycles
  • Maintenance exposure
  • Training-related wear and tear
  • Dependence on suitable weather
  • Operational aircraft downtime

Most importantly, difficult emergency scenarios can be practised without deliberately placing an aircraft and pilot into a hazardous situation.

Scenario-Based Training

The real value of simulation extends beyond learning how to operate the aircraft.

GeoSim can create operational scenarios that require pilots to combine aircraft handling, systems knowledge, communication and decision-making.

Scenarios can include deteriorating weather, equipment failures, challenging terrain and unexpected operational events.

The instructor can introduce failures or change conditions during the exercise, requiring the pilot to assess the situation and respond appropriately.

Emergency Rehearsal

Emergency procedures are among the most valuable areas of helicopter simulation.

Many emergencies cannot be safely or realistically reproduced in the aircraft. In the simulator, they can be introduced repeatedly until recognition and response become familiar.

Pilots can practise identifying the problem, applying the appropriate procedure and safely managing the aircraft—all without risking the aircraft or crew.

Instructor-Controlled Training

GeoSim’s Instructor Operating System allows instructors to control and monitor the training session.

Depending on configuration, instructors can:

  • Reposition the aircraft
  • Change weather conditions
  • Adjust visibility
  • Introduce system failures
  • Create emergency scenarios
  • Monitor aircraft performance
  • Observe the aircraft’s position
  • Repeat specific exercises
  • Create customer-specific training scenarios

This allows the instructor to turn a normal flight into a challenging training exercise at any stage.

Custom Panels & Avionics

We understand that not every Bell 505 is configured exactly the same way.

GeoSim specialises in custom simulation and can work with operators to reproduce their particular aircraft configuration.

Customisation can include:

  • Avionics configuration
  • Instrument layouts
  • Radios
  • GPS/navigation equipment
  • Switch and control layouts
  • Customer-specific equipment
  • Operational procedures
  • Emergency procedures

Quality Meets Affordability

GeoSim’s philosophy is to provide realistic, purpose-built simulation at a price that makes regular simulator training practical.

Rather than providing a generic helicopter simulator, GeoSim can configure the Bell 505 training device around the customer’s actual aircraft, avionics, procedures and operational requirements.

More training. Less aircraft time. Less fuel. Less risk.

GeoSim Bell 505 Flight Training Device

Aircraft: Bell 505
Configuration: Single-pilot light turbine helicopter
Engine: Safran Arrius 2R turbine engine with FADEC
Avionics: Garmin G1000H NXi configuration
Training: VFR, IFR, procedural, emergency and scenario-based operational training
Configuration: Customisable to customer aircraft and training requirements
Manufacturer: GeoSim Technologies Pty Ltd, Queensland, Australia

Built for Safer Helicopter Training

The Bell 505 combines modern turbine technology with an advanced digital cockpit, making it an ideal aircraft for simulator-based procedural and emergency training.

The GeoSim Bell 505 simulator allows pilots to learn the cockpit, practise procedures, develop avionics proficiency and experience emergencies that cannot safely be reproduced in the aircraft.

Whether used for initial familiarisation, recurrent training, instrument procedures or emergency rehearsal, the objective remains the same:

Practise it in the simulator before experiencing it in the aircraft.