Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU) has partnered with Singapore Airlines (SIA) to provide a one-of-a-kind joint-campus, two-continent degree programme in flight training to its Embry-Riddle Asia campus students with secure job opportunities upon completion. ERAU’s new Flight Minor will allow students to fulfill academic requirements for their Bachelor’s in Aeronautics...
Pictured (left to right): Director General of the Rwanda Civil Aviation Authority (RCAA), Silas Udahemuka; and Kevin Shum, Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore (CAAS) has signed training agreements with the Civil Aviation Agency of the Republic of Macedonia...
L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) has launched a new cadet pilot training programme with Jetstar Asia Airways designed to develop high-calibre students into professional pilots for the airline. The first course is planned to start in mid-2018, at which point successful applicants will undertake six months of ground...
Pictured (left to right): Captain Adrian Jenkins, AirAsia’s Chief Operating Officer; and Nick Leontidis, CAE’s Group President, Civil Aviation Training Solutions. CAE has launched its CAE Rise training system, the first commercial offering as part of its ‘Next Generation Training System’ strategic initiative, with longstanding customer AirAsia. The company...
Towards the end of last year, MRO service provider SR Technics and ZbW St. Gallen, a leading institution in dual vocational education and training (dVET), held a six-week advanced training programme for 15 Indonesian polytechnic instructors. The training marked the start of a major ‘lecturer retooling’ programme launched last...
The acknowledgement and acceptance of issues of mental health in the general population has, thankfully, recently become far less of a taboo subject. Whilst the extreme manifestation, in the form of suicide, only affects a small proportion, it nonetheless shows the tip of the iceberg of mental problems. That is...
Pelesys Aviation Maintenance Training (Pelesys) has announced a cooperation agreement with Glennco Aviation Maintenance Training Company (Glennco) as the latter aims to improve the price point and efficiency of its training programmes as well as the knowledge retention of its students. Under the agreement, Pelesys is working with GlennCo...
Regional aircraft manufacturer ATR has implemented the Fox training management platform from Britannica Knowledge Systems (Britannica). The Fox training management platform is now managing operations at ATR’s five training centres in Toulouse, Paris, Johannesburg, Singapore and Miami, which together see over 3,500 pilot, maintenance, flight operations and cabin crew...
Vienna, Austria-based company Austro Control recently entered into a training service agreement with Flyco Training Solutions. Under the agreement, Austro Control will benefit from the use of Flyco’s Advanced Learning Management System (A-LMS) for its search and rescue pilots and other personnel. Flyco’s A-LMS offering includes an E-library consisting...