Thales has been selected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Cyprus and Cyta, the leading provider of integrated electronic communication services in Cyprus, for the modernisation of the country's air traffic management system. In the frame of this contract, Thales will supply the associated simulator. With TopSky - Simulation, the...

A group of air traffic control students from Saudi Arabia are rating in their home country, just four months after completing ab initio training at Airways Training Centre in New Zealand. The students, from Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) completed their Airways training in July last year...

ASTech's GEMS Online Exam has been cleared by the National Aviation Authority of Germany (LBA) and is now being used by ASTech's long-term customer Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) at their training sites in Hamburg and Frankfurt. The system was also introduced to training managers of Part-147 training organisations or airlines,...

FARNAIR Training has developed an online training tool for the ATR 42-300 and ATR 72-500 types. Parts of this MBT (Multimedia Based Training) are now published every month, free of charge, so anybody interested can make use of it without any limitations or obligations. A new ATR Cold Weather Operations...

Pelesys has signed deals with Nigerian-based Arik Air and Air Greenland for aviation courseware. Arik Air has purchased B737NG, A330 and A340 e-learning type rating courses and Air Greenland will be provided with an integrated Learning Management System and an Exam and Assessment Generation System to manage their pilot training.

Avsoft is now providing courseware to DAC Aviation, Skies Aviation of Sweden and First Air of Canada. All the contracts provide access to Avsoft’s flexible Block Hour Licensing (BHL) program that allows airlines and training organizations to instruct hundreds of pilots for one hourly rate.

Indra is to supply two new EC225 transport helicopter simulators to Eurocopter. The systems will be implemented in the training centres of the aircraft manufacturer in Malaysia and Brazil. The databases of the EC225 training systems will include real scenarios with the coastlines and airfields of each country.  ...

FlightSafety International’s Eurocopter EC135 Level-D qualified full flight simulator, located at its Dallas Learning Center, has received Night Vision Goggle qualification from the FAA. This is the first qualification of its type under the National Simulator Program’s Guidance Bulletin 10-01. FlightSafety’s NVG training courses for the EC135 provide in-depth instruction...

Rotorsim has had its CAE 3000 Series AW139 full flight simulator (FFS) certified to Level D by the ENAC (the Italian Civil Aviation Authority). The new AW139 FFS was jointly developed by AgustaWestland and CAE and it is the third for Rotorsim and the second located at the AgustaWestland Training...

A TCAS will soon be available for Alsim’s jet simulators. The company has enhanced the traffic generation system on the Instructor Station to be able to specify traffic relative course and altitude. A TAS, Traffic Advisory System, will be available for bi piston flight models. Weather radar is also in...