A flight attendant rescued a girl from human trafficking after she spotted the disheveled teen sitting on a plane and left a note for her in the restroom. Shelia Fedrick, 49, was working on an Alaska Airlines flight from Seattle to San Francisco when she noticed a teen, believed to...
Fulcrum Labs and Allegiant have won another coveted Brandon Hall Group Award, this time taking home Gold in Best Advance in Technology for Testing or Learning Evaluation for their state-of-the-art Flight Operations Basic Indoctrination training course. Fulcrum and Allegiant have jointly revolutionized the way pilots train using Fulcrum's Personalized Adaptive...
Flyco Group has recently signed an agreement with Bluebird Airways in Greece to provide Learning Management System and courseware for their crew. The system will allow the Bluebird training department to be able to address training needs for their crew, identify knowledge gaps, track progress and monitor training status for...
An Admission Agreement has been signed between Joramco Academy, based in the Hashemite Kingdom of Joradan and the University of South Wales, UK. The agreement states that Joramco Academy students who have successfully completed their EASA Part 66 basic course B.1.1 certificate will be eligible to apply to the university's...
Britannica Knowledge Systems' latest version of its flagship product, the Fox Training Management System (Fox 8.02.06), contains a new breakthrough pilot training scheduling management function as part of Fox's Optimization Engine. This feature, which identifies opportunities for multiple crews to simulataneously use a single resource, delivers newfound efficiency in instructor...
Pelesys has released its newest Special Operations course titled Stabilized Approach/Low Energy Awareness. This new Stabilized Approach/Low Energy Awareness course is designed for flight crews requiring initial and recurrent training. The course outlines the concepts and safety benefits of stabilized approaches, as well as un-stabilized approaches and how to prevent...
This year for the first time, EASA and the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC) are organising the CAAC-EASA Aviation Safety Conference. The aim of this first edition is to broaden the bilateral dialogue, by bringing together authorities and the wider European and Chinese aviation industry to discuss current issues,...
AeroStar Training Services has unveiled plans for a new 30,000 square foot facility to be built at the KISM Kissimmee Gateway Airport, Florida, just minutes from its current base in Orlando. It will be equipped with an Airbus A320 full flight Level D simulator, B737 fixed training device, along with...
Flight Simulation Company B.V. (FSC) has placed an order for a second FTD and has entered into a definitive agreement with Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) for the delivery of an Airbus A320 FTD fixed base simulator. Part of the agreement is an option to convert the simulator into an Airbus...
EDM has won a contract from a major US airline to manufacture a combination B787/B777 Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainer (CEET). Designed to meet the training requirements of the airline and the Federal Aviation Authority (FAA), the CEET will be manufactured at EDM's UK headquarters in Manchester. The training simulator will...