Lufthansa Technical Training has for years been a leader in training aircraft maintenance technicians to work for Lufthansa Technik, the MRO division of Lufthansa, and other airlines. CAT’s Robert W. Moorman interviewed Harald Schween, Head of Sales, Key Account Management and Marketing at LTT.
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority have signed two collaborative agreements further strengthening their bilateral partnership.
Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides a high-level glimpse of rapidly evolving defense S&T trends and programs in Asia.
Asian military services are using learning technologies to strengthen their readiness levels across their mission sets. At one end of the spectrum, new training and education systems are supporting the introduction of the fifth-generation F-35A to the Royal Australian Air Force. At the same time, regional defense forces are using wargame-like solutions to allow their units and staffs to prepare for tasks in and beyond warfighting domains. Further to these trends, the overarching, major development to which simulation and training (S&T) companies, beyond and from the region, are responding is the expanding, insatiable demand for products and services by diverse Asian customers – hardware OEMs, defense departments and other government organizations, and others. This feature article selectively reviews developments in the Asian Pacific S&T defense market space through the regional portfolios of four industry companies.
Global Airline Training & Simulation – Virtual was 'on air' for more than 45 hours – 15 consecutive hours each day, from morning in Europe to early evening in North America.
Boeing has won three foreign military sales contracts with the U.S. Air Force for training services and support in the Middle East valued at more than $800 million.
More than 20 of the Asia Pacific region’s leading experts on airline pilot, cabin crew and maintenance training met online to discuss, among other things, how to best manage the new world of online training in a socially distanced world.
British School of Aviation has secured approval from the UK Civil Aviation Authority to deliver face-to-face and online synchronous engineer type rating training for the Boeing 737 Classic, NG and MAX aircraft.