Alsim opened a joint Alsim/Cirrus Aviation demonstration center and simulation lab that will include Alsim’s AL172 and AL250 simulators at the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport in Sarasota, Florida. “It’s important to have a place where prospective clients can come and spend hours touching, feeling and flying, not just one, but multiple...
Bruce Whitman, Chairman, President & CEO of FlightSafety International, passed away on October 10, 2018 at the age of 85. FlightSafety says Whitman will be remembered with great admiration and affection. He was highly-respected and held in the utmost regard by those in the company and the industry. Whitman joined...
Air France is reopening its cadet pilot program after an eight-year hiatus to be to recruit 250 pilots per year to fill its own pilot positions, as well as for its Joon and Transavia Airlines – and formed a partnership with the École Nationale de l'Aviation Civile (ENAC) (French...
L3 Technologies opened its newly expanded multi-purpose L3 Arlington Training Center facility in Arlington, Texas that will enhance its training capacity for simulation and instruction for military and commercial pilots. The expansion adds approximately 40,000 square feet to the center and doubles the size of the high-bay facility, which is...
Alpha Aviation Group (AAG), a pilot training provider for Asia, purchased eight additional Cessna 172S G1000 trainer aircraft that will be delivered by the end of 2018 to increase its fleet to 24 aircraft. The purchase is part of AAG’s expansion program to help meet its demand for pilot training,...
Envoy Air selected CEFA Aviation’s flight data animation software CEFA Flight Animation System (FAS) to improve its flight safety. The software will recreate flights from the 170 Envoy Air aircraft including the Embraer E170/E175, E135/145 and Bombardier CRJ-700 for training purposes. CEFA FAS translates flight data that shows each...
Bristol Groundschool, a pilot theory training school, and Austro Control, the Austrian-equivalent of the U.K. Civil Aviation Authority (CAA), reached an agreement to open an exam center at the Bristol Groundschool Training Centre in Clevedon, U.K. to protect students currently or about to start taking their European Aviation Safety Agency...
Aviation Academy Austria GmbH, in Neusiedl am See, Austria, awarded Avsoft International a contract for its pilot training system. Aviation Academy Austria will use Avsoft’s proprietary Learning Management System – AvLMS – to deliver ATR 72-500 and ATR 72-600 aircraft systems courses for students at its Simulator Centre, prior...
Moody Aviation selected Frasca International to provide three reconfigurable Advanced Aviation Training Devices (AATDs) for Moody’s flight training facility at Felts Field in Spokane, Washington, which will replace its three previous Frasca units. The AATDs will feature Frasca's Simplicity™ IOS instructor station and TruVision™ visual system with 210-by-10 degree projected...
Change is on the horizon with the recent EASA proposals to adopt the full evidence based training concept - as developed for ICAO in 2013. As part of the 17th European Airline Training Symposium (EATS), which is taking place in Madrid, Spain, from 6-7 November, a pre-event interactive EBT...