Now in its twelfth year, WomenVenture, a week-long social and networking event for women, attracts hundreds of women who are part of the aviation community and enjoy getting together to be inspired, to network, and to just plain have fun. More than a thousand women gathered in Boeing Plaza...
Leading Edge Aviation is to award three bursaries to aspiring airline pilots. The awards are to be used towards the academy's full time, integrated training course, the Leading Edge Airline Pilot programme (LEAP). The bursaries, worth £20,000, £10,000 and £5,000, will be given to three future pilots who have...
Q4 has recently received an order from SGB Enterprise for five DirectVue display systems. The Q4 DirectVue line is a direct display dome solution that complements Q4’s visual display capabilities. The 6-foot radius DirectVue dome display was designed, and is ideally suited, for small class rooms and standard office...
Avialpes, a French flight training school located in Metz-Tessy, decided to purchase an ALSIM AL250 flight simulator. With this addition, the CPL-IR formations will open in winter 2019. The ALSIM AL250 is a generic and compact simulator for single & multi engine piston (SEP/MEP reconfigurable) PPL, CPL & IR...
FlightSafety International announced that Michael Burger has been promoted to manager of the company’s Learning Center in Teterboro, New Jersey. He assumes this responsibility from Danny Robayo who was recently promoted to vice president. Burger joined FlightSafety in 2004 as an instructor at the Farnborough Learning Center in the...
The Civil Aviation Academy of Kazakhstan, a long-term Alsim customer who has already been operating an ALSIM AL200MCC for several years, recently decided to purchase an ALSIM ALX simulator. The ALSIM ALX Flight Simulation Training Device (FSTD) provides up to four classes of aircraft – from single engine piston,...
AeroStar Training Services has announced three new partnerships with international pilot recruiting firms. Nick Tung, a Taiwan based business, Athenaeum, a company based in the Philippines, and Mars Knight (TFA Flight Academy), based in China and the U.S., have all recently retained AeroStar to enroll students into their training...
Czech Aviation Training Center (CATC) launched pilot training of nineteen Malaysian cadets for Malaysian Airlines in Prague. Within two years, cadets will complete Integrated Airline Transport Pilot Course (ATP) for aircraft, at the end of which they will meet the requirements for the commercial pilot of a commercial aircraft.
The Avion Group has received an injection of €10 million of investment capital from the Kempen European Private Equity Fund and the current shareholders, facilitating the further expansion of the Dutch aviation group to London Gatwick. In collaboration with its partner IAGO, Avion Group will open a new training...
The 2019 Boeing Pilot & Technician Outlook projects that 804,000 new civil aviation pilots, 769,000 new maintenance technicians, and 914,000 new cabin crew will be needed to fly and maintain the world fleet over the next 20 years. The forecast is inclusive of the commercial aviation, business aviation, and...