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...

Warren Christie, JetBlue’s vice president of Operational Planning and Training, outlined his air carrier’s training strategy in a far ranging interview with Group Editor Marty Kauchak on February 21, 2014. Insights from their discussion are provided in this article. JetBlue’s ambitious business model includes fleet restructuring, route expansion and other...

Chris Long visits Scandinavian airline Novair and profiles the training expertise of this charter carrier. For many cabin crew, making their way out of a smoke-filled emergency evacuation trainer, with its noise (and in some cases movement) and escaping via the slide, is a construct that already provides a pretty...

entrol’s A320 simulator has received FNPT II MCC qualification from the Belgian Civil Aviation Authority. The A320 simulator was purchased by DL-Aviation to offer MCC and JOT courses and train normal and emergency procedures of the A320.

Bombardier has appointed training services provider FlightPath International (FPI) of Toronto as its Authorized Technical Training Provider (ATTP) for all entitlement and recurrent technical training for Bombardier's CRJ Series commercial aircraft and Challenger 850, Challenger 870 and Challenger 890 business jets. Under the ATTP agreement, FPI instructors will deliver aircraft technical...

Chuck Weirauch explores the helicopter simulation training industry and provides an update on recent progress. With commercial helicopter sales now anticipated to increase significantly in just about every major world market, and in China at an annual double digit rate, for example, it would only follow that the number of...

  Willem-Jan Derks profiles aviation training in Latin America. Latin America, with its 590 million inhabitants, has been an increasingly important market for over a decade now and seems to be continuing that trend. It was one of the few regions of the world that continued to show growth during...

Improved training methods, sophisticated hardware and a mindset change of management is helping to evolve cabin evacuation training. Robert W. Moorman investigates. Two aircraft accidents in recent years highlight the life and death importance of cabin evacuation training. One was the much-publicized 2009 ‘Miracle on the Hudson’, a US Airways...

  Higher order learning technologies and content, including human factors topics are among the advancements in community maintenance training programs, reports Group Editor Marty Kauchak. New personnel in community maintenance programs are learning and refreshing their skill sets with cutting edge technology. At the same time, human factors and other...