Airways New Zealand and Emirates Aviation College are joining forces to deliver air traffic control training in Dubai. The joint venture will see Airways delivering air traffic control training to up to 200 students per year at the College's new purpose-built campus in Dubai over the next five years. Vice...

ST Aerospace has opened its new aviation centre at Singapore's Seletar Aerospace Park (SAP), in the presence of guest of honour Singapore's Senior Minister of State for Ministry of Finance and Ministry of Transport, Mrs Josephine Teo. With an expanded Seletar footprint occupying over 75,000 square metres, ST Aerospace becomes...

Antycip Simulation has collaborated with eyevis to upgrade and modernise the tower simulator of Skyguide Training Centers (STC) in Dübendorf near Zurich. Fourteen new eyevis LED projectors now provide improved training simulation experience at the STC tower simulation with higher resolution, more detailed colour depiction and better brightness. Antycip Simulation...

Five graduates from Aviation Australia's aircraft maintenance engineer training program have commenced their apprenticeships with Alliance Airlines. The graduates are now based at the airlines maintenance hangar located at Brisbane International Airport where they will complete the practical elements of their apprenticeships within their respective trades, maintaining the airline's Fokker...

  Cockpit4u has brought a brand-new B737NG fixed base trainer (FBT) into service. The new device has been designed to bridge the gap between procedure training on ground and flight training in full flight simulators. The FBT features complete replica hardware, instructor station, worldwide airport and navigation database, and a flat...

  Fiona Greenyer explores the use of new technology for cabin crew training, and how it is currently being used in training departments. E-Learning, mobile learning and the use of social media is becoming more prevalent in today’s training departments. Cabin crew training has traditionally involved the more practical aspects...

  The oft-warned ‘airpocalypse’ appears to be starting. Air service cutbacks in the US blamed on a shortage of pilots. A captain’s crunch in Asia. But will aspiring young aviators endure the cost and time to pursue a flying career? Rick Adams looks at the changing dynamics of airline flight...

Chuck Weirauch looks at pilot training issues surrounding the US regional airline industry and the Regional Airline Training sessions that will be taking place at WATS 2014. With Great Lakes Airlines ending service to a number of communities because of a shortage of pilots, United Airlines citing that shortage is...

Enterprises are hit by cyber attacks, on average, once every 1.5 seconds, twice as often as a year ago, according to the FireEye advanced threat report. It’s not just banks, retailers, healthcare providers, educational institutions, and government agencies … aviation systems, including aircraft, are vulnerable. Rick Adams analyzes the risks.

  Airlines around the globe are equipping their cockpits with new technologies. At the same time, airline training organizations and training device OEMs are migrating these systems and devices into flight crew learning curricula, reports Group Editor Marty Kauchak. An array of new systems and devices is being installed in...