CAE has renewed a long-term contract to provide exclusive pilot training programmes for Flexjet and Flight Options for an additional six years. Training will continue to be conducted at CAE's US training centres in Dallas, Texas and Morristown, New Jersey. The training programmes will cover multiple business aircraft platforms,...
Flyco Group has released a Route Competence course list covering various areas around the globe. The full package covers NAT MNPS (North Atlantic High Level Airspace), North America, Central & South America Procedures, Polar Operation, Russian Procedures, Africa & Middle East Procedures, China Procedures and Oceanic Procedures (which covers...
FlightSafety International’s third Gulfstream G280 full flight simulator (FFS) will be installed at its Savannah, Georgia Learning Center before entering service in March 2018. The simulator will be equipped with a FlightSafety CrewView collimated glass mirror display, which provides distortion-free optical performance with greater clarity, sharpness and brightness. It...
CAE has unveiled its CAE Master Pilot Training Program, a career advancement tool for business aviation pilots, at NBAA-BACE 2017. The program’s core and elective courses aim to raise pilot levels of platform knowledge, safety awareness and situational response capabilities. They follow the principles of the Wingman Standard, the...
TAG Farnborough Airport has awarded 26-year-old Leo Tang the 2017 TAG Flying Scholarship, which will provide training towards a Private Pilot’s Licence (PPL). The TAG Flying Scholarship is part of the airport’s ‘Aviation to Education’ programme. Now in its 10th year, the programme engages schools and colleges within the...
Pictured (left to right): Captain Reinhard Kraxner, Managing Director of OEAMTC; Dr. Roman Sperl, CEO of Reiser Simulation and Training GmbH; and Marco Trefanitz, Managing Director of OEAMTC At Helitech 2017 in London, OEAMTC Air Rescue signed a Letter of Intent (LOI) for the provision of Reiser Simulation and...
Flight Research has introduced a new upset recognition and recovery training (URRT) course to help pilots understand early onset icing and its impact on aircraft performance. “Our most safety-conscious customers requested we build a program for this specific safety concern,” CEO Bill Korner said during course development. During the...
On 7 October, Ethiopian Aviation Academy held a graduation ceremony for 262 aviation professionals at its Commercial and Cabin Crew Training centre. The academy graduated 50 pilots, 66 aviation maintenance technicians, 120 cabin crew and 26 Equipment and Facility Maintenance technicians (10 majoring in Industrial Mechanics and 16 in...
London Biggin Hill Airport has hosted students from London South East Colleges’ first Aerospace and Engineering courses which launched last week. As part of ongoing efforts to encourage more young people to pursue careers in the sector, Biggin Hill is also working in partnership with the college, the London...
Pictured (left to right): ICAO Secretary General, Dr. Fang Liu; Director of France’s ENAC, Marc Houalla; and Permanent Representative of France on the ICAO Council, Ambassador Philippe Bertoux. The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) and France’s École Nationale de l’Aviation Civile (ENAC) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding covering...