MAINTENANCE TRU Simulation + Training plans to establish a new maintenance training facility for current model Cessna and Beechcraft aircraft. The facility will be located on the Textron Aviation Mid-Continent campus in Wichita, Kansas. When completed, the existing space will be converted into a fully renovated training center equipped with...
MAINTENANCE Aviation Skills Partnership and Semta have agreed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) which will help secure the skills required to keep the UK 'flying high'. The MoU will ensure collaboration in the design and development of international aviation engineering programmes to meet the needs of employers and employees in...
MAINTENANCE FL Technics Training has received an Aviation Technical Training Organization Certificate from the Civil Aviation Authority of the Republic of El Salvador. The certificate makes the company eligible to provide EASA Part-147-certified Base, Type and Specialized technical training courses for carriers, MROs and other players of the Salvadoran aviation...
ATC TRAINING The Bulgarian Air Traffic Services Authority, BULATSA has completed factory acceptance testing of its Micro Nav 3D tower and radar simulator. The simulator is due to be installed in the Sofia control centre during July of this year. The contract includes: 16 dual-role radar and tower controller workstations;...
TRAINING CENTRE FlightSafety International is to build a new Learning Center in Columbus, Ohio. Construction of the new facility will be completed in two phases. Phase one will be 55,000 square feet and house six full flight simulators. It will also feature 13 advanced technology pilot and maintenance training classrooms, 12...
TRAINING DEVICES Nanshan International Flight Academy has completed factory acceptance on their CAAC Level D Cessna CJ1+ full flight simulator (FFS) from Frasca International, Inc. The simulator will soon be installed at Nanshan's flight academy located in Longkou, China. The Frasca FFS simulates the Cessna CJ1+ business jet and includes Frasca's...
CONFERENCE FlightSafety International is to host the 2014 Flight Simulation Engineering and Maintenance Conference. It will be held September 15 to 18, at the Renaissance Tulsa Hotel and Convention Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma. The conference is expected to be attended by more than 300 flight simulation experts from around the...
Conference Chair Chris Lehman files a preview. The European Airline Training Symposium (EATS) will land at the Estrel Hotel in Berlin, Germany this autumn. Taking place from October 28-29, there will be an additional meeting for Heads of Training on the evening of 27 October. EATS 2014 will continue our annual tradition of exploring European expertise in aviation training and simulation, and once again...
Group Editor Marty Kauchak examines the maintenance community’s commitment to aligning its training activities with regulatory agency and other organizations’ protocols and standards. Maintenance, repair and overhaul organizations, air carriers and other organizations are bolstering the efficiency and effectiveness of their training. While readers of CAT and viewers of the Halldale website (www.halldale.com) are aware of...
Chris Long takes a look at Strata Manufacturing PJSC, based in Al Ain, which employs mostly highly skilled women on the production line. The most visible benefit of commercial aviation is, of course, in the explosion of travelling opportunities for a growing proportion of the world population. Alongside that, the...