FlightSafety International is building a simulator for the King Air 200 aircraft equipped with a Garmin G1000 NXi Integrated Flight Deck. It will be installed at the company’s Wichita East Learning Center, and training is scheduled to begin in August 2018 following Level D qualification. The simulator will feature wireless...
FlightSafety International is to offer training for the Pilatus PC-12NG aircraft at its Learning Center in Denver, Colorado. This will be FlightSafety's third PC-12 simulator and second training location. The new FlightSafety FS1000 simulator for the PC-12 NG aircraft will be equipped with the Honeywell Primus Apex avionics suite...
The Unmanned Aircraft System (UAS) Integration Pilot Program (IPP) consists of 10 state, local and tribal governments that will collect drone data involving night operations, flights over people and beyond pilot’s line of sight, package delivery, detect-and-avoid technologies and the reliability and security of data-links between pilots and aircraft. Announced...
FlightSafety International is expanding its EASA Phased Recurrent Training program, making it available now at most FlightSafety locations around the world that provide EASA training, including the company’s Farnborough and Paris locations. The program is designed to be compliant with EASA Part-ORO Subpart FC regulation. It consists of two...
The UK CAA has granted approval for Avsoft's PBN-RNP eLearning course for pilot training to meet the Commission Regulation (EU) No. 539/2016. Performance Based Navigation (PBN) requires that from 25 August 2018, pilots may fly in accordance with PBN routes and procedures provided that they have a PBN privileges...
Alliance Aviation and Avenger Flight Group have announced a new partnership, allowing the two aviation training companies to join forces and provide comprehensive commercial aviation simulation and training programs to prospective pilots and airline alike. This new partnership means that the type rating training programs provided by Alliance Aviation can...
L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) has announced development plans at the L3 European Airline Academy to increase the cadet capacity training at the facility to 500 per year. To support the additional cadets, 12 new Diamond DA40 and four single-engine Cessna aircraft will be added to the Airline...
ALSIM has sold an ALX (Single Engine Piston, Single Engine Piston Complex, Multi Engine Piston, and Light Jet) to Malaysian Flying Academy (MFA), a flight school located in Melaka, Malaysia. MFA has been in operation for the past 35 years and is acknowledged as the first tertiary institution in...
MINT Software Systems has signed a service agreement with Turkish Airlines for the delivery of the MINT Training and Resource Management System (MINT TRMS) to enhance further and streamline the management of the flight crew and in-flight crew training. MINT TRMS will allow training planners, instructors and crews with "anytime,...
The airBaltic Training Center has installed the world's first Bombardier C Series virtual simulator (VSIM) in order to help train C Series pilots more efficiently. Vilmantas Mažonas, managing director of airBaltic Training commented: "The new virtual simulator will serve as an advanced level of training using virtual technologies for...