Conair has purchased from entrol an AT-802 FTD Level 2 simulator. It will be installed in Conair’s new Aerial Wildfire Training Center (AWTC) in Canada. The Training Center will house a number of FTDs used for aircraft transition training and mission-based aerial firefighting. The center is the first of its...
Royal Brunei Airlines has launched an eLearning strategy supported by learning technology and content solutions provided by Peak Pacific. Peak Pacific has implemented a SaaS enterprise learning management system (LMS) to enable Royal Brunei to manage, track, report, analyse and audit online learning programs across the organisation. Royal Brunei Airlines...
UFA, Inc. (UFA), a provider of Air Traffic Simulation and Voice Technologies, announced that it has delivered its ATCloud ATC training platform to Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU) in Manchester, New Hampshire. SNHU’s new ATCloud platform delivers hosted voice recognition and response (VRR) enabled ATC skills, phraseology and radar training...
Simloc Flight Simulation has launched a new pilot training device, the A320 SR FTD 1 and FTD 2 MCC, with a launching commercial strategy, which includes a pay-per-use financial system. This Airbus A320 FSTD has been developed for pilot training from ab initio to recurrent. Both hardware and software are...
SIM-TECH Manufacturing has been awarded a contract from Southwest Airlines to build several new B737NG door and overwing exit trainers and to update many others. SIM-TECH spokesman Josh Conrey stated that Southwest Airlines is one of the Premier airlines in the United States, and we are excited to have been...
Pedro Ramos, HR Director, TAP Air Portugal Mário Spínola, L3 Airline Academy Director Europe Ramiro Sequeira, COO Chief Operating Officer, TAP Air Portugal Luís Esteves, Director Flight Operations, TAP Air Portugal L3 Commercial Aviation announced that it has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with TAP Air Portugal, increasing...
MINT Software Systems, a manufacturer of training management solutions for the aviation industry, announced the signature of a service agreement with Jet2.com for the implementation of the web-based training management system MINT TRMS. MINT TRMS allows training planners, instructors and crews with “anytime, anywhere” online access to their training schedules,...
Simon Potts, an independent consulting engineer and visual systems engineer specialist, recently opened Southcoast Simulation in Miami, Florida to help provide housing and maintenance services for flight simulators in that area. Potts, who founded Superflight Simulation Services Inc. in Canada, opened this training center that houses two Boeing 747-400 Level D...
CAE is to acquire Bombardier’s Business Aircraft Training (BAT) business for an enterprise value of US$645 million, expanding its ability to address the training market for customers operating Bombardier business jets, which at more than 4,800 aircraft, is one of the largest and most valuable in-service fleets of business aircraft...
Boeing and Safran have received regulatory approvals for a joint venture so they can begin designing, building and servicing aircraft Auxiliary Power Units (APUs)—onboard engines that are primarily used to start the main engines and power aircraft systems while on the ground and, if necessary, in flight. The companies also...