Worldwide statistics show that excursion-related business aviation accidents are up to 60 percent higher than those for commercial aircraft. Chuck Weirauch takes a look at how the industry is incorporating enhanced training to remedy these statistics. While runway excursions are a leading cause of accidents for both commercial and business aviation operations, they...

MAINTENANCE TRAINING Signifying Airbus' latest milestone to become even closer to its customers and partners and to support them around the globe Airbus and SIA Engineering Company Limited (SIAEC) have entered into an agreement to provide maintenance and engineering training services for Airbus aircraft in Singapore. Through this collaboration, SIAEC...

MAINTENANCE AgustaWestland's Training Academy in Malaysia is to receive an AW139 maintenance training simulator later this year. This will enable practical elements of AW139 airframe and avionics courses to be undertaken in Malaysia by customers in the region. The full aircraft maintenance trainer simulator enables students to undertake maintenance and...

COMPANY NEWS HighWater Innovations has announced the introduction of a larger version of their PlaneGard PED Fire Containment Case. The PlaneGard PG350 has been designed to handle laptops with screens up to 17" diagonal. While sales of the company's standard case, the PG250 are growing, it became apparent in late 2014...

MAINTENANCE Airbus and HAECO Group have entered into a long-term strategic agreement to provide maintenance and engineering training in mainland China and Southeast Asia. HAECO will deploy the ‘Training by Airbus’ standards, dynamic tools and teaching techniques to provide aircraft maintenance training capabilities to its personnel and others in the...

Group Editor Marty Kauchak looks at how the maintenance community is adjusting its learning strategies to support new models of aircraft entering service. This is a professionally challenging but rewarding time to be an airline maintainer. Individuals on the flight line, and in maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities are seeing...

ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES Aerosim Flight Academy has named Craig Zysk as vice president of sales and marketing. Zysk has more than 30 years of leadership experience in international and domestic manufacturing, business development and customer service and is responsible for sharing the academy’s global brand and mission with industry partners...

SOFTWARE Pelesys has signed a long term service agreement with Cargolux to provide its maintenance, ground staff and flight operations departments a complete Training Management and Deployment System (TDMS), which includes Pelesys' newly launched Training and Resource Scheduling platform. The solution will be a Software as a Service (SaaS) solution...

MAINTENANCE Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) has been approved as a training provider by the aviation authority of the United Arab Emirates, the General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA). LTT can consequently hold GCAA-recognized aviation basic and type training courses. Category A and category B1.1 (both aviation engineers) and B2 (avionics engineers)...