Alberta, Canada-based Springbank Air Training College (SATC) has purchased an AL200 simulator from Alsim to train its 200+ students at Springbank Airport. Talking about the order, SATC’s President Jayme Hepfner said, “With the increased demand for pilots, it’s becoming more important to utilise advanced simulation to provide the necessary...
Pan Am International Flight Academy has installed an Airbus A320 door trainer at its Miami, Florida facility. Removed from an Airbus A320 tear-down project, the door was shipped to Miami where Pan Am’s technical team went to work designing, building and installing the trainer. Equipped with evacuation in-floor lighting,...
Redbird Flight Simulations (Redbird) has announced the first international sale of its VTO helicopter training device to Jakarta, Indonesia-based Genesa Flight Academy (Genesa), which will take delivery of the helicopter training device in June 2018. The VTO is the second Redbird device to be integrated into Genesa’s flight training...
FlightSafety International is building the first simulator for the E190-E2 aircraft and expanding its Learning Center at Paris-Le Bourget airport in France to accommodate the new type. The expansion of the Learning Center includes a new 1,145 square metre (12,346 square foot) building adjacent to FlightSafety’s current Paris-Le Bourget...
Helisim, a joint venture between Airbus and Thales created 18 years ago, is to open a new facility in the US within the Airbus Helicopters Training Academy in Grand Prairie near Dallas, Texas. The facility will support training for the AS350, EC135 and EC145. It will be equipped with...
JetBlue Airways has announced Steve Forte as the new Vice-President of JetBlue University. Based in Orlando, Florida, Forte will report to Rachel McCarthy, JetBlue’s SVP Talent & Learning. Forte holds both undergraduate and MBA degrees from the University of Arizona. He began his career with nearly three decades at...
The Qantas Group has said that in 2019 it plans to open a new ‘Qantas Group Pilot Academy’ capable of training up to 500 pilots a year. The academy is likely to be established near an existing airfield in regional Australia to provide easy access to uncongested airspace. The...
On 22 February 2018, Dundee, Scotland-based Tayside Aviation marked its 50th anniversary by conducting 50 training flights in just one hour. Since its launch in 1968, the company has flown 33 million miles – the equivalent of 70 trips to the moon and back! These flights led to the...
Following delivery of its first A350 XWB aircraft in 2016, Ethiopian Airlines has become the first to operate an A350 XWB full flight simulator (FFS) in Africa. Ethiopian Airlines currently operates seven A350 XWBs and has a further 17 on order. CEO of Ethiopian Airlines, Tewolde GebreMariam, remarked, “The...
Pictured: Meridian's line service team at Hayward Executive Airport in Hayward, California Meridian has successfully completed ground handling and servicing training for large cabin and mid-cabin Gulfstream aircraft conducted by FlightSafety International. The training consists of two online courses designed for line service technicians and cover large-cabin Gulfstream aircraft...