Luxaviation Helicopters, part of the Luxaviation Group, has acquired Starspeed, a global helicopter management, charter and training company. The deal, Luxaviation Helicopters’ first acquisition since launching in February 2017, positions the company as the world’s largest VIP and VVIP helicopter operator. Luxaviation Helicopters will incorporate Starspeed’s fleet of 23...
The Embraer 170 Door Trainer EDM manufactured for S7 Airlines has passed its Factory Acceptance Test (FAT). The FAT was granted following two days of rigorous inspection and testing carried out by a senior team of S7 Airlines’ cabin crew training instructors and simulator engineers. Designed and built at...
CAE has joined forces with HEC Montréal's Tech3Lab, a leading user experience research lab in North America, to study pilot behaviours in a training context using biometrics, neuroscience and big data. The partnership, which was made possible through the Institute for Data Valorisation (IVADO), will significantly advance the research...
AVION Group has appointed Edwin Huisman as the new Managing Director and Accountable Manager of AVION Training. In his new role, Huisman will be responsible for all training facilities at Maastricht-Aachen Airport in The Netherlands, Dalaman Airport in Turkey and new soon-to-be-opened training facilities in Malta. Huisman, former CFO...
ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu with His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (left) and at her alma mater, Leiden University (right). Dr. Fang Liu, ICAO’s Secretary General, has conducted a mission to the Netherlands where she took part in discussions with His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and helped...
L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) has received a contract from Republic Airline to provide a suite of training devices for its Embraer E175 flight training programme. The training devices L3 CTS will deliver as part of the package with Republic include its ETHOS Systems Knowledge Suite and Procedures...
Wizz Air, SmartLynx Airlines and Viet Flight Training (a subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines) are among the first airlines to access MOMook’s training management solution, which allows them to monitor pilots’ training progress in real time, through a partnership with BAA Training. The airlines needed access to BAA Training’s software...
Under a new agreement, Ottawa, Ontario-based OAS Flight Centre Inc. (Ottawa Aviation Services) is to become the fifteenth organisation in the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program (Jazz APP). The Jazz APP is aimed at establishing a direct career path for qualifying graduates and offers the opportunity for OAS's top-performing Canadian...
Emirates Flight Training Academy has taken delivery of its first two Cirrus SR22 G6 training aircraft in Dubai. A6-CTA and A6-CTB are the first of 22 single-piston engine Cirrus aircraft ordered by the Academy to train ab initio pilots. The two aircraft landed in Dubai following a transatlantic journey...
ATP Flight School has accepted delivery of its 300th training aircraft – a factory-new Piper Archer TX – as part of a three-year agreement with Piper for the purchase of up to 100 aircraft to increase training capacity and meet the growing demand for airline pilots. To stay ahead...