Cloud Global Group, which offers commercial flight training and aircraft maintenance services from Perth Airport in Scotland, has acquired Border Air Training. Border Air Training has been operating flying schools at Carlisle Airport in Cumbria and Cumbernauld Airport in central Scotland for 26 years, making it one of the...
one-G simulation’s Swiss12 simulator, based on the Pilatus PC-12, has received certification as an Advanced Aviation Training Device (AATD) from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The development of the simulator was a custom project undertaken by one-G’s Creative Solutions Studio with the objective of reducing the cost of a...
Pictured (left to right): Brandon O'Reilly, CEO of TAG Farnborough Airport; and Leo Tang, winner of the TAG Flying Scholarship 2017 Under the auspices of the Honourable Company of Air Pilots’ scholarship programme, TAG Farnborough Airport has launched the TAG Flying Scholarship for 2018 to help a young person...
Airbus has acquired a flight training centre from US company Strategic Simulation Solutions in Aurora, Colorado, to expand its presence on the West Coast. The training centre primarily supports the needs of Frontier Airlines’ all-Airbus fleet with two FAA-certified Level D A320 full flight simulators. The OEM hopes to...
BAE Systems has joined forces with Cranfield University to create a new post-graduate engineering apprenticeship programme which will provide learners with a valuable Masters-level qualification. The first cohort of 76 engineers from BAE Systems will begin the academic element of their Level 7 apprenticeship programme on 8 January 2018,...
On 14 December 2017, Global Aviation SA marked the 20th anniversary of its commercial pilot and cabin crew training academy, which was established in 1997. More than 450 people, including students, graduates, business partners, employees and associates, joined the company in a ceremony at Athens’ Grand Bretagne Hotel to...
Pictured (left to right): US FAA Administrator Michael Huerta; Ambassador Kaja Tael, Permanent Representative of Estonia to the European Union; and Henrik Hololei, Director General of the European Commission Directorate General for Mobility and Transport (DG MOVE) The United States (US) and the European Union (EU) have signed amendments...
Pacific Sky Aviation, the sister company of Viking Air Limited, has received Level D certification from Transport Canada for its Series 400 Twin Otter full flight simulator (FFS). The FFS provides instructors with the ability to programme training events from any airport or GPS location, a valuable feature for...
Global Training Aviation (GTA) has received Level D certification from EASA for an ATR 72-600 full flight simulator (FFS) manufactured by TRU Simulation + Training. Located at GTA’s facility in Madrid, Spain alongside the company’s existing ATR 72-500 full flight simulator, the new addition will meet the growing demand...
On 1 January 2018, Lufthansa Technik AG (LHT) became the new training organisation for approximately a dozen young people who were previously in training programmes at Air Berlin Technik. LHT and United Services Trade Union ver.di made sure this was the case after the new owner of Air Berlin...