FlightSafety International has selected National Airways Corporation, based in Johannesburg, South Africa, as a FlightSafety Maintenance Training Center. Through NAC, FlightSafety will now offer training for Pratt & Whitney Canada engines in South Africa and the surrounding region. FlightSafety will provide NAC with courseware and MATRIX training equipment that includes...
Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) has signed an agreement with the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) to provide EASA CAT B1.1 and EASA CAT B2 training concepts for ACT's basic training program. LTT will run train-the-trainer courses in Kuwait and provide access to web- and computer-based training media. LTT will also support...
Airbus and Thai Airways International have signed a Maintenance Training Collaboration agreement to develop a long term strategic partnership. Thai will become Airbus' local maintenance training centre in the region and will initially provide maintenance type-training capabilities for A320 and A330. Airbus will work with Thai to achieve full EASA...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL) has launched its apprenticeship scheme for summer 2013. This year, the initial training phase will be carried out at the newly opened Monarch Aircraft Engineering Training Academy (MAETA) at London Luton Airport from where individuals will then relocate to MAEL's London Luton, Birmingham and Manchester...
Thales has been selected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Cyprus and Cyta, the leading provider of integrated electronic communication services in Cyprus, for the modernisation of the country's air traffic management system. In the frame of this contract, Thales will supply the associated simulator. With TopSky - Simulation, the...
A group of air traffic control students from Saudi Arabia are rating in their home country, just four months after completing ab initio training at Airways Training Centre in New Zealand. The students, from Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) completed their Airways training in July last year...
ASTech's GEMS Online Exam has been cleared by the National Aviation Authority of Germany (LBA) and is now being used by ASTech's long-term customer Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) at their training sites in Hamburg and Frankfurt. The system was also introduced to training managers of Part-147 training organisations or airlines,...
FARNAIR Training has developed an online training tool for the ATR 42-300 and ATR 72-500 types. Parts of this MBT (Multimedia Based Training) are now published every month, free of charge, so anybody interested can make use of it without any limitations or obligations. A new ATR Cold Weather Operations...
Pelesys has signed deals with Nigerian-based Arik Air and Air Greenland for aviation courseware. Arik Air has purchased B737NG, A330 and A340 e-learning type rating courses and Air Greenland will be provided with an integrated Learning Management System and an Exam and Assessment Generation System to manage their pilot training.
Avsoft is now providing courseware to DAC Aviation, Skies Aviation of Sweden and First Air of Canada. All the contracts provide access to Avsoft’s flexible Block Hour Licensing (BHL) program that allows airlines and training organizations to instruct hundreds of pilots for one hourly rate.