TAG Aviation Asia has opened a new training centre in Hong Kong, becoming the first corporate management company in the Asia Pacific region to offer training services that include a physical Airbus A320 over-wing exit door trainer. The trainer was built by EDM to airline specifications and TAG Aviation...
Following an initial order for 100 Archer TXs from Piper Aircraft in April 2013 – which is due to be fulfilled by October 2018 – ATP Flight School has announced the signing of a second 100 Archer TX order. The second order for 100 Archer TXs will bring ATP...
Paul Cummings has joined Orlando-based ECS as Vice President of Innovation and Technology, bringing with him 20 years’ experience in computational analytics, training and simulation, data sciences and learning-based research. As a technical lead and researcher, Cummings developed key projects for the Army Research Laboratory, U.S. Navy Bremerton, U.S.
KLM UK Engineering has signed a long-term partnership with Vision Concept Aviation Training Institute (VCATI) for the provision of EASA Part 147 exams supported by KLM UK Engineering’s Virtual Learning Environment (VLE) software. Under the agreement, KLM UK Engineering will support VCATI’s Diploma in Aircraft Maintenance Engineering and Advanced...
Ahead of the Student Education and Careers in Aviation (SECA) event taking place at WATS in Orlando this year, Savannah Folan, Financial Aid Administrator at L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS), walks us through the ways in which the company can help students finance their studies. Widening access to...
Building upon one-G Access, its pay-per-use flight simulator programme, one-G simulation has now set up the one-G Youth Access program with the donation of an FAA approved flight training device to East Valley Institute of Technology (EVIT), a career and college prep school. The donated device is an FAA-approved...
The International Flight Training Center of Turkey (IFTC) has chosen to upgrade its five Level D full flight simulators (FFS) with Simthetiq’s X2 Visual System, which is powered by the aXion image generator. The upgrades will take place during the summer of 2018. Simthetiq’s X2 Visual System has now...
UFA, Inc. (UFA) has been selected by Leidos Innovations Corporation to deliver its ATTower tower simulator to support testing, training, prototyping, and development of the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Terminal Flight Data Manager (TFDM) system. TFDM is the FAA programme to modernise air traffic control tower equipment at 89...
Pictured (left to right): Ian Bell, CAE's Vice President and General Manager, Middle East/Asia-Pacific; and Dr. Dhafir Awadh Al Shanfari, Chief Executive Officer of the Omani Authority for Partnership for Development CAE has signed a service level agreement (SLA) with the Omani Authority for Partnership for Development (OAPFD) to...
The new Epic Prime ‘Visuals as a Service’ programme from RSi Visuals allows customers to pay a monthly fee for full use of a Level D Epic Visual System, providing all the benefits of ownership without the risks or responsibilities. Under Epic Prime, RSi says it will provide delivery,...