Yet again the APATS 2018 event, held in Singapore at the Marina Bay Sands conference centre, reflected the continuing growth of commercial aviation in Asia. Chris Long summarises some of the highlights.
Pegasus Airlines commissioned Spatial, a provider of cabin crew training simulators, to build an Airbus A321NX Over Wing Exit Trainer to help the airline’s cabin crew become proficient in all normal, abnormal and emergency situations with the aircraft’s door. Spatial manufactured the custom-built trainer to replicate all the functionalities of...
Norwegian Competence Center Helicopter (NCCH), working with Reiser Simulation and Training GmbH (RST) and Norwegian Air Ambulance AS (NLA - Norsk Luftambulanse), opened its new Next-Generation Training Center in Stavanger, Norway that includes an Airbus H145 Level D Full-Flight Simulator to provide training for NLA pilots and crew members. Establishing...
FlightSafety International named David Davenport and Ray Johns the company’s new Co-CEOs, succeeding Bruce Whitman, who passed away October 10, 2018. Davenport will also serve as President, Commercial, and Ray as President, Government and Manufacturing. In addition to serving as Co-CEOs, Davenport will continue to oversee all aspects of...
SkyArt, a supplier of custom cabin crew training devices made from old airplane cabin interiors, installed a Boeing B77-200 special-purpose cabin trainer in Almaty, Kazakhstan for the U.S. Department of State. It will be used in the Kazakhstan Border Guard Service Cadet Training Program that is sponsored by the U.S.
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...
Spatial, a provider of cabin crew training simulators, was named the Gulf Capital Business of the Year 2018 by the Gulf Capital SME Awards. The Gulf Capital SME Awards are organized by MEED, in partnership with Gulf Capital to recognize and celebrate the best companies in the UAE. The group...
In an interview held during APATS with Ben Lam, Managing Director Aviation Training Division, Chris Long got an update on the progress of HAITE Group’s build up of aviation training capability. The rationale behind this build up is that the supply of airline training needs to be customer-centric -...
Spatial, a provider of cabin crew training simulators, will upgrade Qantas airlines’ narrow-body and wide-body Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainers (CEETs) to solve obsolescence issues. The upgrades will include the installation of Spatial’s PLC-based (Programmable Logic Controller) operating system, paired visual technologies and a wireless Instructor Operator Station.
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...