Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) has ordered a Boeing 787 door trainer, including a virtual slide trainer, from Spatial. The device, which is due to enter service during the first quarter of 2018, is the third GAA has ordered from the company following the delivery of cabin emergency evacuation trainers...
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will become the first airline outside the U.S. to implement the FAA's Advanced Qualification Program (AQP) using the Fox Training Management System (Fox) from Britannica Knowledge Systems. The Japanese carrier is now in the process of adopting Fox to oversee AQP qualification management and compliance...
easyJet has selected Spatial to provide its UK training centres with a pair of Airbus A321 semi-automatic over wing exit trainers in anticipation of upcoming aircraft deliveries. The compact devices, which will be operational in early 2018, will be the first to offer training on this new Airbus door...
Flyco Training Solutions has released new Embraer Type Cabin E-courses which meet the requirements of EASA, IATA, ICAO and other regulatory authorities. The courses begin with an introduction to a particular aircraft type before focusing on its general cabin layout, galleys, lavatories, flight deck, passenger and cabin attendant seating,...
On 14 December 2017, Global Aviation SA marked the 20th anniversary of its commercial pilot and cabin crew training academy, which was established in 1997. More than 450 people, including students, graduates, business partners, employees and associates, joined the company in a ceremony at Athens’ Grand Bretagne Hotel to...
South Africa's Comair has acquired EPT Aviation Training as part of an ongoing diversification of its non-airline operations. Captain Glen Warden, Head of Comair’s Training Facilities, explained, “The new acquisition is an exciting development in line with Comair’s ongoing expansion of our non-airline facilities to mitigate against the weak...
A new solution from CEFA Aviation, CEFA Aviation Mobile Services (AMS), delivers feedback to aircrews right after landing using a tablet with a secure internet connection to depict selected flight segments. CEFA AMS converts wireless Flight Data Recorder (FDR) data into a realistic animation in less than 10 minutes...
Four students have just graduated from a three-day flight attendant training course held by Aerostar Training Services at the company’s Kissimmee Airport headquarters in Florida. During their training, the students covered topics including FAA regulations, aircraft terminology, the phonetic alphabet, military time, airport codes, weather and turbulence, flight attendant...
Since May 2017, Pelesys has been acting as the exclusive global representative for Virtual eTraining’s 360˚ virtual development platform, Taggis.com. Virtual eTraining describes Taggis as a cloud-based authoring platform that enables companies and e-learning providers without any prior programming skills to easily create interactive 360° virtual training environments populated...
Novair Education has been chosen to deliver Sea Survival training to over 200 cabin crew as part of their initial training with Scandinavian Airlines (SAS). The company’s Sea Survival training is performed in cooperation with the rescue leaders at Stockholm Arlanda Airport at Halmsjön, a lake close to the...