FlyRight, an FAA-approved Part-142 Pilot Training Center based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has added Bombardier Dash-8 training to its growing list of training programs. Following successful Level C qualification of its CAE-built Dash-8 100/300 simulator and instructor qualification from the FAA, FlyRight has begun offering initial/type, recurrent, upgrade and...

  BAA Training estimates that more than 650 future pilots will have enrolled on its Ab Initio programmes by the end of 2021. This year, the number of students at BAA Training has increased sharply – those enrolling on Ab Initio programmes has almost doubled compared to 2016. The company...

CAE announced at Halldale Media’s 2017 Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) event in Singapore that it has expanded its agreement with Air Niugini to support the airline's Fokker F100 pilot training needs in the region. Pilots began training in the second half of 2017 and CAE instructors are...

With the recent announcement of A-Level results in the UK, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) is calling for the airline industry to ensure pilot selection is open to all and that those from less advantaged backgrounds are not put off. The association is arguing that training costs of...

Envoy Air has officially welcomed Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology to the Envoy Cadet Program. “We created the Cadet Program to ensure we continue to recruit quality pilots to position Envoy for success,” said Natalie Nielsen, Envoy Air’s Director of Pilot Recruitment. “We’re pleased to welcome...

FlightSafety International has received orders for full flight simulators from Aeroméxico Connect, S7 Airlines of Russia and SF Airlines of China. Aeroméxico Connect is to receive its second Embraer E190 FFS during the second quarter of 2018 at the Aeroméxico Training Center in Mexico City. “We are pleased that...

L3 Commercial Training Solutions’ Airline Academy (L3 Airline Academy) is working with airline partner British Airways to offer its cadets the opportunity to be pre-selected for a British Airways First Officer position while still completing their airline pilot career program. The opportunity is currently exclusive to L3 Airline Academy’s...

At Halldale Media Group’s 2017 Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) event, CAE announced it is expanding its training footprint in South East Asia through a collaboration with Jakarta Aviation Training Centre (JATC). Under this collaboration, CAE will deploy its first-ever owned full-flight simulator in Indonesia (an Airbus A320...

easyJet has extended its Amy Johnson initiative by setting itself the target of filling half of the 14 places in its 2017 Aeronautical Engineering Apprenticeship intake with women. The apprenticeship programme is in partnership with Resource Group and its Aviation Maintenance Training Division, with successful candidates due to commence...

  Bosch Rexroth has signed an agreement with KLM to supply the motion platform solution for one of its new Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainers (CEETs), which is being manufactured by EDM. Rexroth’s motion platform will be used to simulate flying conditions in a Boeing 777 aircraft cabin, with the CEET...