The Aviation Institute of Maintenance has secured the location for its 12th campus, with a new site in Charlotte, North Carolina, set to open its doors for business in early 2018. AIM's business development executive, LaVern Phillips, told CAT that deal for the new location has been completed and that...
Measuring the return on an airline's training investment is often hard to quantify, but Bruce Hall, general manager of Pratt & Whitney Customer Training, has launched a program to demonstrate to airline customers that providing their engine mechanics with training can save money and improve reliability over the life of...
Pratt & Whitney is applying the same level of innovation it used in designing its Pure Power® Geared Turbofan™ (GTF) engine to develop virtual reality customer training tools to advance learning for airline mechanics. Pratt & Whitney Customer Training in East Hartfort, Connecticut, in conjuntion with the United Technologies Research...
Ray Flower has been appointed Head of Technical College of KLM UK Engineering Limited as of 1st March. Ray Flower started his career in 1979 and has carried out many aviation training roles within the industry over the last 30 years. Ray's latest roles include Head of Aviation at Kingston...
17 apprentices from Resource Group's Aviation Technical Training division (LRTT Ltd.) have completed the 8-month residential part of their EASA Part-66 Category A Apprenticeship programme at the company's training academy at Cotswold Airport. The award for Academic Aircraft Apprentice, given to the student achieving the highest modular results, was presented...
The International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) has continued its efforts to bolster worldwide aviation training capacity during the Fourth ICAO Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. The event, hosted by Ethiopian Airlines and continuing from 11-13 April, is the first ICAO Global Aviation Training Symposium...
From 2016-2035, Latin America will require 2,570 new passenger and freighter aircraft, including 2,030 single-aisle and 540 widebody, worth an estimated US$350 billion. According to the most recent Airbus Global Market Forecast, Latin America's passenger and freighter fleet will surpass 3,000 in the next 20 years, more than double the...
Founded on Saint Patrick's Day in 1947, CAE has launched a year of celebrations with its 8,000 employees worldwide to commemorate its 70th anniversary. "Over the last decades, we've built on our diversity, our passion for excellence and the talent of people all over the world to create a great...
Airbus is setting up a greenfield training facility at Aerocity, New Delhi, to support India's growing need for Airbus aircraft pilots and maintenance engineers. The ground-breaking for the Airbus India Training Centre was performed by P. Ashok Gajapathi Raju, Honourable Union Minister of Civil Aviation and Tom Enders, CEO, Airbus...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), the engineering division of Monarch, has launched its aeronautical engineering apprenticeship scheme for summer 2017. The four year scheme, which originally began in 1971, has already produced over 760 high calibre engineers and this year the intake increases from 18 to 22. The available positions...