Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) won a contract from Skyborne Airline Academy to deliver, MPS says, the first fixed-base B737 MAX simulator to Skyborne’s new training center at Gloucestershire Airport, U.K. MPS says the B737 MAX will help Skyborne optimize its training for its next generation of pilots. The simulator is...
HAITE Aviation Training Singapore, a subsidiary of Sichuan Haite High-Tech Co. Ltd. of China and a provider of aviation training programs, signed a pilot-training agreement with China Eastern Airlines, one of China’s three major airlines. HAITE Singapore will develop and conduct relevant training programs for current and future CEA pilots...
London Biggin Hill Airport will launch a new apprentice program with East Surrey College to open aviation operations career opportunities to the local community. Five apprentices will assist trained airport professionals with the daily operations of hangars and ramps at London Biggin Hill. The program will launch in September 2019,...
airBaltic Pilot Academy welcomed 12 cadets into its second group to begin studies at its Pilot Academy in Latvia. The cadets will become airBaltic pilots after completing the two-year program. The airline hopes this pilot-training program it launched last year will help it secure more Baltic pilots, and says it saw...
Coptersafety named Juha Ahtola as head of Quality and Safety and Mikko Kallio as head of Training and Development. Both Ahtola and Kallio will report to Mikko Dahlman, CEO, Coptersafety. Ahtola will succeed Timo Honkavaara, who was promoted to Chief Operating Officer focusing on Coptersafety’s rapid growth. Ahtola will be...
The IFA Aviation Training Center in São Domingos de Rana, Portugal acquired an Alsim ALX simulator as part of its modernization strategy. The Alsim ALX acquired by the IFA is an EASA CS-FSTD A-FNPT II MCC simulator, which allows to replace flight hours per simulated flight hours in the PPL,...
Capt Dharmadi and Capt Ardy with Pacsim Director of Operations, Russell Hubber in the EuroJet FTD Flybest Flight Academy in Batam, Indonesia purchased two flight simulators from Pacific Simulators to complete their Jet Orientation Courses for pilots, including a EuroJet Cockpit Procedures Trainer (CPT) and a ProJet PS4.5...
infoWERK is working on the IMENSIM research project on optimized use of simulators through the integration of mental training techniques with other Austrian groups: the Institute of Psychology at the University of Graz and AMST Systemtechnik GmbH in Ranshofen. The project is supported and funded by the Austrian Research Promotion...
Delta Air Lines launched the Propel Pilot Career Path Program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s two residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida and Prescott, Arizona to help meet the need for the more than 8,000 new pilots it expects to hire over the next decade. The Delta Propel program will...
Commercial 2 Corporate (C2C), a private aviation service provider that offers specialist training courses, will launch a cabin crew-training program with KURA Aviation in October that will teach cabin crews how to transition to corporate aviation from commercial. The 2-day C2C Essentials training course will give cabin crews the knowledge and...