The helicopter accident rate resumed its desired downward trend last year. Significant reasons could be continuous communication, stricter flight rules, and proliferation of newer technology flight simulators and training devices. Rick Adams reports. Credit improved awareness. Credit repeated communication. Credit ever-advancing aircraft technology. Credit new simulation technology and training techniques.

An Evolution Dim Jones addresses the evolving role of the Barco division, the Frederikstad, Norway, based projectiondesign. Regaining Focus A user judges the fidelity of a simulator by two yardsticks: does it handle and perform like the real aircraft; and does the world outside look as it should? The latter depends crucially on the quality of the projector. Dim Jones reports on organisational changes at Barco to...

Chris Long reports from the first Asia Pacific Aviation Education and Training Symposium (AAETS) held in Incheon, Republic of Korea. There was a tremendous impact right from the start of this inaugural conference, when a troop of traditional Korean drummers struck up to grab the attention of the conference hall -...

Following the merger with US Airways, American Airlines is now the largest carrier in the world. Chuck Weirauch investigates their training and simulation expertise. In one of the more remarkable climb outs for the airline industry, American Airlines Group has gone from bankruptcy in 2011 to in March 2015 having its stock join...

CONFERENCE REPORT The University of Zilina moved this year’s INAIR conference to Prague and it proved one of the best yet. The speakers came from a wide range of countries as well as Slovakia, and there was strong representation from the academic world – unusual in aviation training circles. However,...

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES Michael (Mike) Young has joined SimCom Training Centers as director of Training Operations and Quality. In this capacity, Mr. Young will be responsible for the standardization, regulatory compliance and continuous improvement of SimCom's existing training programs. He will also work with training center managers, courseware developers, simulator production...

PILOT Representatives from the White House, Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), major US airlines, including Delta, America, United and Allegiant, and regional carriers ExpressJet, Horizon, GoJet, Cape Air and Envoy met at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's Daytona Beach Campus in January for a two-day Pilot Supply and Demand Summit. Boeing has forecast...

PILOT TRAINING UK airline Flybe is now employing CTC WINGS "whitetail" graduates for the first time. Pilots who completed their airline pilot training through the CTC WINGS Integrated ATPL route are put forward for airline placement towards the end of their training by CTC's graduate placement team. The first group...

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES CPaT Global has named Gregory Darrow as vice president of Sales and Marketing. Mr. Darrow joins CPaT from his most recent position as the vice president of Sales and Marketing for Pan Am International Flight Academy. With over 25 years in sales and marketing management, including 16...

SOFTWARE Pelesys has signed a long term service agreement with Flybe Finland, to provide its training management and deployment platform to manage all aspects of Flybe Finland's training. The solution to be deployed at the airline will be a Software as a Service (SaaS) Training Management and Deployment platform, and...