Rostock System-Technik GmbH (RST) has been selected to build door trainers for Hong Kong Airlines which will be used to train crew on its Airbus A320, A330 and A350 aircraft. Each of the door trainers consists of a 1L main entry door with all functions available as per each...
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,...
Following the introduction of its Embraer Type Cabin E-courses, Flyco Training Solutions has now also released Boeing 787 Dreamliner Type Cabin E-courses which meet the requirements of EASA, IATA, ICAO and other regulatory authorities. The course starts with an introduction and general information section about the particular aircraft type...
Royal Air Maroc (RAM) has ordered a V9000 Commander Cabin Fire + Smoke Trainer from Netherlands-based Flame Aviation. It will be installed at RAM’s new training facilities in Casablanca during March and used as part of Flame Aviation’s broader fire training curriculum, which includes presentations, instructional videos and questionnaires,...
Thai Flight Training (TFT), a subsidiary of Thai Airways, has ordered an Airbus A320 door trainer from Spatial which is due to enter service during the second quarter of 2018. The device, which is equipped with Spatial’s door visuals system, will offer training on the L1 door and over...
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...
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...
Malaysia Airlines Berhad (MAB) and Peak Pacific are to jointly design and develop a blended learning solution around Cabin Familiarisation and Safety & Emergency Procedures (SEP) training for flight crew and cabin crew. The solution will be introduced alongside MAB’s six-strong Airbus A350 fleet (the first of which was...
The world’s largest gathering of aviation training professional’s returns to Orlando, FL on April 17-19, 2018, to discuss ‘The Role of Technology and Data in Optimizing Career Paths, Human Performance and Operational Safety’. The event will share the latest training technologies, instructional techniques, “best practice” and “lessons learned”, whilst...