Spirit Airlines has established a partnership as a business vendor of training equipment with Spatial Composite Systems, the UAE manufacturer of cabin crew training simulators. Spirit recently awarded a contract to Spatial for its first A321 L1, L3 and OWE door trainer, which has already been installed at Spirit's training...
EDM's A350 and B767 door trainers it supplied to Ethiopian Airlines have passed their Site Acceptance Test (SAT). EDM manufactured two door trainers for Ethiopian Airlines as part of a major contract to supply a comprehensive range of state-of-the-art cabin crew training equipment. Installed at the airline's brand new training...
Airbus has awarded RST Rostock System-Technik a contract to design, manufacture and install an A320 door trainer. The trainer combines a 1L main entry door and a left hand side overwing emergency exit. The training device will be installed in the new Airbus Training Center in Mexico and will be...
The 18th annual World Aviation Training Conference & Tradeshow (WATS) took place at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, in Orlando, April 21-23. Conference Chair Chris Lehman captures some of the highlights of what is always a very intense three days. With over 1,100 attendees hailing from 50-plus countries and 110 airlines, WATS broke new delegate and airline attendance records once again. Already the world’s largest gathering of aviation...
At WATS 2014 a new company, TRU Simulation +Training, was introduced to the community. About one year later, Jim Takats, TRU’s chief executive officer, recapped the quick pace of activities which have established his company as an emerging global provider of training and simulation products and services, throughout the entire learning continuum. Group...
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recently grouped all the training elements in the organisation together, and held the inaugural ICAO Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. Chris Long reports. It is always challenging to pick a suitable venue for a global conference, but Dublin can give claim...
CABIN CREW TRAINING Dubai airline Emirates invested about Dh73 million ($19.86 million) in cabin crew training during 2014, which saw a total of 4,280 new cabin crew graduating from Emirates Aviation College (EAC) - Crew Training. The facility has reported a record-breaking year for 2014, with over 33,000 attendees in...
CABIN CREW TRAINING RP Aero Systems has been awarded a contract by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to manufacture and install a Boeing 787 door trainer at their Training Centre in Schiphol Airport. "The door trainer will include all the necessary functions to meet the modern day training needs together with...
CABIN CREW TRAINING SIM-TECH Manufacturing LLC has delivered three A319/321 door trainers to American Airlines. The trainers include the A321 L-1 door, A319 OWE and A321 L-2 door units. Final acceptance was completed in January. UL inspection was completed on January 13, 2015 and FAA acceptance and RFT on January...
ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES FlightSafety International has announced that Kyle Davis has been appointed Executive Director, Marketing for the company's business and commercial aviation training activities. Kyle's responsibilities include working with FlightSafety's team of Product Directors to develop new programs, services and solutions that meet the current and future needs of...