CAE has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Singapore Airlines (SIA) to establish a joint venture for pilot training in Singapore. The equally-owned joint venture will initially focus on providing simulator training for Boeing aircraft types to support SIA Group's airlines and other operators' pilot training needs in...

Together with its partner The Little Engineer, the Airbus Foundation is rolling out the Airbus Little Engineer (ALE) robotics programme in Africa. The initiative aims at training thousands of students between 10 and 16 years old in the fields of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM). The goal is...

Left to right: Joseph Cadavos, Mike Lockaby and Joey Turner, aviation maintenance instructors, stand next to Augusta Technical College's new engine Southwest Airlines recently donated a CFM56-3B1 high-bypass turbofan aircraft engine to the Aviation Training Center at Augusta Technical College. The engine will provide students with advanced training in...

Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) has received an order for a B737 FTD from Jet Masterclass, with the fixed based simulator due to be installed at the latter's Training Center near London Gatwick Airport. Frank Jukes, Managing Director of Jet Masterclass, commented, "Selecting MPS as a training partner was a...

Spanish company European Flyers has become the first to purchase an en-1000 FNPT II simulator from entrol. The en-1000 FNPT II is the company's latest fixed-wing simulator. It is a reconfigurable FNPT between SEP and MEP, equipped with a GTN 650 and exchangeable glass & analogical cockpit. This first...

Hong Kong Airlines has chosen Pelesys’ Training Management and Deployment System (TMDS) to meet its flight crew and cabin crew training management and reporting requirements. The carrier will use Pelesys' Qualification Management System (QMS) to monitor, aggregate, and maintain flight and cabin crew qualifications. The QMS module is a...

The Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam (CAAV) has chosen Norway's Pilot Flight Academy (PFA), which it recently qualified as an Approved Training Organisation (ATO), to provide its staff with flight training. The first three members of CAAV staff begun training for their Private Pilot License (PPL), Commercial Pilot License...

Norway's Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) has joined forces with Dhana-based Chimes Aviation to educate India's future airline pilots. Although the aviation market in India is one of the fastest growing in the world, the educational capacity for pilots is limited, thereby threatening pilot supply. For this reason, over the...

Peak Pacific has acquired a majority interest in Belgium-registered aviation software start-up CavokSoft’s Electronic Training Objects (eTo) product. The two companies have signed a long-term business partnership agreement that will provide CavokSoft access to Peak Pacific’s technology expertise and resources, enabling eTo to grow into a commercially viable product...

A new collaboration with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University means students on the Engineering and Innovation program at Mexico's CETYS University will gain access to 'partner courses' consisting of approximately 45 hours of content taught by Embry-Riddle Worldwide instructors. The graduate-level classes include content from Embry-Riddle's Master of Science in Aeronautics;...