Merlin Flight Simulation Group has delivered an additional channel for the University of Dayton (UD), Ohio’s MP521 Engineering Flight Simulator’s Genesis Visual System. The additional channel, displayed at the Instructor Station, provides the option to view the exterior of a generic aircraft so that students may appreciate the dynamics...
Bangkok Aviation Center (BAC) has signed two separate Memorandums of Understanding (MOUs) regarding new training programs. The first, between BAC, Rajamangala University of Technology Krungthep (UTK) and Thai AirAsia is for an Aircraft Mechanic program. The MOU was signed on 3rd July 2017 at Intercontinental Hotel Bangkok by UKT’s...
Resource Group’s Aviation and Aerospace Resourcing business – including Contractair Ltd – and its Aviation Technical Training business have been acquired by Resource International Group Investments AG after a successful management buyout (MBO). The MBO team was led by Stephan Hickman, who has 19 years of experience running various...
Spanish airline Iberia and the Education, Youth and Sport Bureau of the Madrid Regional Government are developing a two-year vocational training degree specialising in the maintenance of aircraft and aircraft engines. The Advanced Vocational Training degree in Aeromechanical Maintenance will be taught at two Vocational Training Secondary Schools in...
Members of Duncan Aviation’s line service team based in Battle Creek and Kalamazoo, Michigan, and Lincoln, Nebraska, recently completed Gulfstream Ground Handling & Servicing Training with FlightSafety International. The training they received covered aircraft parking, fuelling, towing and mooring, water servicing, lavatory servicing, window cleaning and snow and ice...
Boeing has raised its forecast for new airplane demand, projecting the need for 41,030 new airplanes over the next 20 years valued at $6.1 trillion. The company's annual Current Market Outlook (CMO) has been released at the Paris Air Show, with total airplane demand rising 3.6 percent over last year's...
This year's Paris Air Show was the venue for the launch of a unique new partnership between the University of Salford and America's leading aerospace university. Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has made Salford its's first UK higher education partner with the launch of a new Master's degree programme in Aerospace Engineering.
CityJet has chosen to deploy Pelesys’ Training Management and Deployment System (TMDS) to meet future electronic training records management requirements. The carrier, which is headquartered in Ireland, will use Pelesys’ Qualification Management System (QMS) module to monitor, aggregate and maintain its employee qualifications. As a rule-based solution, QMS automates...
Three pioneers of the global aviation training community were recognised at the annual meeting of airline, regulatory and industry training experts, WATS 2017 (World Airline Training Summit). Awarded by CAT magazine, the three individuals received the first 'CAT Pioneer' awards and will have subsequent awards named for them as part...
SMART ROI, a method for measuring the return on investment (ROI) of human capital processes such as engine maintenance training, can add millions to airlines´ net incomes each year, according to research and consulting firm Management & Excellence (M&E), which says studies it has carried out on major airlines around...