CPaT Global, LLC has entered into a license agreement with The Boeing Company. This contract allows CPaT to use Boeing technical data to develop and provide computer-based training (CBT) courses to their clients. Under this agreement, CPaT is authorized to utilize Boeing technical data to develop and maintain the highest-quality...
Airways Aviation has secured CASA-approval for its MPS simulator and Brisbane-based Airline Training Centre. Working with Multi-crew Airline training systems, its facilities can now be used to deliver Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) Part 142 Multi-Crew Cooperation (MCC) training. Airways Aviation has also secured finance options for MCC qualifications and...
Sikorsky and the Saskatchewan Indian Institute of Technologies (SIIT) have celebrated the transfer of an S-76A helicopter maintenance trainer to the Saskatchewan Aviation Learning Centre. Valued at C$1.3 million (US$945,000) the non-flying, twin-engine helicopter with associated equipment and documentation provides an important learning tool for students pursing a career in...
Boeing Chairman, President and CEO Dennis Muilenburg has named Kevin G. McAllister president and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, succeeding company vice chairman Ray Conner in that role. Muilenburg also appointed Stanley A. Deal president and CEO of Boeing Global Services, a new business unit to be formed from the...
Flybe, Europe's largest regional airline, has announced plans to open its first European crew base on 1st February 2017, having secured an agreement with Dusseldorf Airport. Germany is becoming an increasingly important market for Flybe, which now offers six routes to Dusseldorf. In preparation for the opening of the...
Primera Air has been using cockpit procedure trainers developed by Aviation eLearning for B737 Next Generation type rating and they have reported positive results. After training with the interactive app, Primera Air Training Manager Jan Packert, reported that they managed to reduce the time for ground operations (from seated to...
TRU Simulation + Training Inc. has been selected by Qingdao Airlines for the delivery of one Airbus A320 full flight simulator and one A320 flat panel trainer (FPT). The TRU FFS X™ will be equipped with a new EP-8100 image generator from Rockwell Collins, a Moog fully electric motion system,...
The United Kingdom’s (UK) Air Navigation Order (ANO) 2016 that forms the legal basis for almost all areas of civil aviation regulated at national level took effect on August 25, 2016. The UK’s Civil Aviation Authority says it undertook a joint review of the ANO 2009 with the Department for...
ARINC Specification 439A (Sept 2016): Simulated Air Traffic Control Environments (SATCE) in Flight Simulation Training Devices (FSTDs) has been published by SAE ITC. The specification was produced by the Flight Simulator Engineering and Maintenance Conference (FSEMC) Working Group of SATCE. Quadrant Group has played an active part in multiple working...
Jeppesen, a Boeing Company, has agreed to issue the Universidad Carlos III in Madrid an educational license to use its Total Airspace and Airport Modeler (TAAM) software to enhance graduate-level research related to the study of air traffic management. Starting this fall, the university’s Department of Bioengineering and Aerospace Engineering...