This major Portuguese flight school has just partnered to bring VR to ATPL training, maximize the efficiency of time spent in the aircraft and simulators.
In this installment, an OEM’s insights on trends and developments in this market are presented along with a glimpse of a device recently exhibited for the A&D community. Several follow-on articles will highlight a FSTD to be unveiled at 2023 I/ITSEC, “deep dives” on several technology underpinnings for new devices and a look at a next-gen training system.
With US Senator Tammy Duckworth (Illinois) pronouncement, “Our Nation is Experiencing an Aviation Safety Crisis”, the senator, as Chair of the Subcommittee on Aviation Safety, Operations and Innovation, opened a subcommittee hearing titled “Addressing Close Calls to Improve Aviation Safety” earlier today, November 9.
For me, the Heads of Training (HoT) meetings which precede the European Aviation Training Symposium (EATS) are an annual sanity check. The HoT meetings – one for pilots, one for cabin crew – feature ‘Chatham House’ rules, which basically means ‘What happens in Cascais, stays in Cascais.’
This flight training academy is fully focused on establishing a reliable stream of pilots for the aviation industry, which has been staring at scarcity in the short to the long term.