Carol Vorderman, British TV personality, who recently unveiled plans to fly around the world solo, has joined the judging panel for the final round of Bristol Groundschool's ATPL Scholarship Programme. Somerset-based Bristol Groundschool launched the Scholarship Programme in early 2013 to assist pilots in training who might otherwise have struggled...

CAE has signed contracts for ten full flight simulators (FFSs), flight training devices and simulator update services. The contracts are worth approximately C$140 million. CAE has sold four A320 FFSs with options for another four, and four training devices to Lion Air Group, a Pan-Asian airline group that includes Indonesia's...

Chris Long takes a look at new entrant in the equipment manufacturing market, Farnair Europe. With the continuing uptick in training demands it is no surprise that there are new entrants in the training market. The size of that market, and the opportunities for innovation in it, can encourage new...

Ian Strachan reports from the RAeS conference ‘Improving Training Provision’. At the Royal Aeronautical Society HQ in London, the Society and the International Air Transport Association held a conference in June on "Improving Training Provision". Over 120 delegates attended from 26 different countries. Jens Bjarnason, IATA Operations director, said that...

Held in Berlin, Germany, the 2013 European Airline Training Symposium (EATS) saw delegates benefit from the perspectives of European and international training and simulation experts. Conference Chair and CAT Editor-in-Chief Chris Lehman filed this report. The theme of EATS 2013 was “Enhancing Flight Crew Training,” and for the first time,...

In his first interview since becoming CAE Group President, Civil Simulation Products, Training and Services, Nick Leontidis speaks with Rick Adams. In June, longtime CAE business development leader Nick Leontidis took over the reins of CAE’s civil aviation simulation and training businesses, succeeding Jeff Roberts, who spearheaded the unit for...

Robert W. Moorman explores what is being done to teach English to test pilots and air traffic controllers according to ICAO’s language standards. They still talk about the horrific mid-air collision near New Delhi, India. November 12, 1996: A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747-100B enroute to Dhahran, Saudi Arabia and...

Next-Gen Motion Technology Improving Performance With the introduction of second-generation electric motion systems for full flight simulators and the further refining and improvement of FFS performance, training devices are becoming more capable of replicating actual aircraft performance. Chuck Weirauch writes. A new means of evaluating motion performance could be the...

Rick Adams investigates training for offshore helicopter operations. There’s a new dynamic driving helicopter pilot training, and a new geography of locations with names you’ve probably never heard before. The Santos Basin off the coast of Brazil, the Kizomba field in the Atlantic Ocean east of Angola, the KG-D6 block...

Converging Paths Military virtual maintenance training systems provide high fidelity, quality training across learning curricula. S&T companies are devising strategies to tailor their simulators and other devices to further support maintainers in the civil aviation sector, Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports. Recent advancements in learning technologies used by military aviation...