Construction has started on a new flight training centre in Sydney, Australia, which will train up to 4,500 Qantas Airways and Jetstar pilots and cabin crew each year from early 2024.
The European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) has published its process for “special conditions” for flight simulation training devices using new technologies such as virtual reality or new aircraft types such as electric vertical takeoff and landing ‘air taxis’.
The Loft Dynamics team is developing a virtual reality flight simulator for the Airbus H125 glass cockpit based on the Garmin G500H TXi and GTN 650Xi avionics package. The enhanced device “will be ready in mid-2023. We’re taking orders now.” Simon Von Niederhäusern, Head of Marketing, told CAT.
Surf Life Saving Queensland has purchased the first entrol H14 FTD Level 5 simulator in Australia. entrol will install the device, based on the Bell 429, by mid-2023 in Surf Life Saving Queensland's base in Archerfield Airport, on the eastern coast of Australia.
The new location in Pécs, Hungary, will function as an engineering and research office supporting current and future AXIS projects together with Headquarters in Lebring, Austria.