Flyco Training Solutions (Flyco) is to provide Romania’s flag carrier TAROM Airlines with E-training solutions for its crew and personnel. Flyco’s E-library consists of content and training material for pilots, cabin crew members, dispatchers, technicians, managers, handling personnel, loadmasters and ground personnel. With the recent expansion of its aircraft...
Avsoft has delivered a new Windshear course to a customer for pilot training which explores the important concepts, definitions, limitations, components, and procedures related to low level windshear. Topics discussed on the course include associated weather features including thunderstorms and microbursts, associated terrain and ground structures, the effects of...
Photo credit: Royce POH / Airbus Asia Training Centre The Airbus Asia Training Centre (AATC) in Singapore has installed its second Airbus A320 full flight simulator (FFS), bringing the total number of FFSs at the facility to seven. The new A320 FFS is at Airbus Std. 1.9.1 and can...
Pictured (left to right:) Jessica Waite and Hanna Gillam, recipients of the first female ab initio pilot scholarship created by Airways Aviation in collaboration with the British Women Pilots' Association On 8 March 2018, Airways Aviation announced the two recipients of its new female ab initio pilot scholarship, Hanna...
On 6 March, Netherlands-based AVION celebrated the inauguration of the Simliner flight training centre in Luqa, Malta, which has become the first to operate the new AVION Phantom 320 level D full flight simulator (FFS). The FFS was qualified by EASA for level-D operations in November 2017. It will...
Okay Airways has become the latest airline to join Boeing’s commercial Pilot Development Program (PDP) alongside other Chinese customers including Kunming Airlines and YTO Airlines. Through the PDP, which is designed to develop cadets into 737 type-rated first officers, Boeing will oversee the screening, selection and training of 100...
FlightSafety International has appointed Keith Anderson as its new Director of Engineering for simulation products. In this role, Anderson is responsible for all aspects of the design, development and support of FlightSafety’s training devices, including full flight simulators and other training products and equipment such as MATRIX, FlightSafety’s integrated...
CAE has signed an exclusive five-year pilot training agreement with low-cost carrier T'Way Air, which is based in Korea, and will support its increasing Boeing 737NG pilot training needs from the second half of 2018. “As we experience rapid growth and expand our fleet, we are looking to our...
On 1 March 2018, ECS officially celebrated the grand opening of its new Huntsville, Alabama office in Cummings Research Park, which will focus on Aerospace programmes. The office will support ECS’ clients with cost-effective, quality products and services covering engineering, software development, 3D visualisation, augmented reality and virtual reality,...
Peach Aviation Limited (Peach) has announced plans to begin offering in-house training to pilots right from their initial steps towards obtaining their licenses. To date, Peach has hired pilots who have graduated from aviation universities or taken pilot courses at private universities and obtained the necessary licenses to fly...