Aurimas Urbonas has been appointed to lead BAA Training Spain as Managing Director and is tasked to develop and execute the training centre's strategic objectives and drive its organisational success.
Earlier this year AGD opened their facilities in northern Jutland, Denmark and they are now ready to welcome their first pilot students on their FlightLogger controlled trianing programs.
Pilot forecasts, returning routes, vaccine developments, and economic optimism suggest a nearer-term ramp-up for commercial aviation. CAT publisher Andy Smith opines.
It's good to report it has been a busy time, with our Global Airline Training & Simulation - Virtual event taking off in November. CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, picks out his highlights from the three-day event and discusses why he feels positive about the future in our new Halldale feature titled Rick's Picks.
In March 2020, Aero Locarno, based in Switzerland, signed a contract for five Sonaca 200 Trainer Pros. The approved training organisation has now decided to double the initial order, bringing the revised order to a total of 10 aircraft.
Heli Protection Europe has joined FlightLogger as a partner, the first Italian helicopter school to do so, and increasing the total tally of Italian pilot academies using FlightLogger to four.
CAE has concluded a conditional agreement with Textron to acquire TRU Simulation + Training Canada Inc. for a cash consideration of approximately US$40 million.
VRpilot has signed a contract with Danish pilot training company, Center Air Pilot Academy, on the delivery of VRpilot’s virtual reality cockpit flow trainer, VRflow.
Global Training Aviation’s ATR 72/500 Level D full-flight simulator has been upgraded and received AESA UPRT high-altitude stall event, full stall and icing certification according to CS-FSTD (A) issue 2.
Although the rotary-wing community seems to be less impacted than the airline community, there are differences as to how various vertical flight operations have been affected. US Editor Chuck Weirauch surveys the helicopter training market.