The highly-successful University Gateway Program, a four-way collaboration with JetBlue Airways, Cape Air, the University of North Dakota (UND) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), has added another airline. Atlanta-based ExpressJet Airlines will partner with Cape Air to provide a parallel path for aspiring pilots to join JetBlue. The Gateway Program...
This fall, students in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's flight programs in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, will receive training in motion-based full flight simulators in preparation for new FAA training requirements. In Daytona Beach, students will be trained in a full motion simulator from FlightSafety International in the campus' Advanced...
CTC Aviation Group (CTC) will be delivering a new airline pilot training programme exclusively for Indian students. Chief executive officer Rob Clarke announced the program during a UK Government market visit led by Prime Minister David Cameron to India. “We are actively engaged with a number of Indian airlines to...
Boeing and Singapore-based SilkAir have announced a five-year exclusive pilot training agreement which will support SilkAir's fleet transition to Boeing airplanes. Boeing Flight Services will provide flight training at Boeing's Singapore training campus for the airline's new 737 fleet.
Baltic Aviation Academy (Lithuania) has signed a partnership agreement with Aviacom Inc., one of the leading providers of general aviation flight simulators in India, as its representative for the Indian subcontinent. EASA approved training courses proposed for the Indian market include Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) courses, type rating training,...
EDM is to introduce their new Safety and Emergency Procedure Training Reality Engine (SEPTRE) at WATS 2013. SEPTRE has been designed for use on either fixed or motion based cabin emergency evacuation trainers (CEET's) and is already in service with a significant number of Chinese airlines including Air China, Xiamen...
Aviation Australia and Hawker Pacific have signed an agreement to formalise their previous Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a specialised training program in Cairns. The program is intended to provide advanced practical expertise to Aviation Maintenance Engineering (AME) students graduating from the Aviation Australia's International Training Diploma program. The agreement...
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has teamed with Antipodean Aviation of Australia to offer survival training in emergency water landings for both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The course covers pre-flight planning and emergency water landing techniques, as well as escape from a submerged aircraft cabin and sea survival techniques, including life preserver...
Frasca International Inc. is actively manufacturing and delivering helicopter full flight simulators (FFSs) and flight training devices (FTDs) to customers worldwide. The company has seen a continual increase in helicopter business over the last decade and continues to receive orders for flight training equipment for both civil and military training...
Mubadala Aerospace has signed an AED 4.9 million agreement with UAE University (UAEU) to train the next generation of Emirati technicians to work at Strata's aircraft composite production facility. The new initiative, with key modules delivered by professional trainers from Lockheed Martin, builds on the success of existing programs, which...