Benefiting from the latest advances in non-invasive sensors and monitoring devices, HuMans, Thales’s Human Performance Monitoring solution is a new methodology and pedagogical tool that estimates pilots’ mental workload in real time and in an objective manner. The tool is integrated into Thales’s renowned Reality H Full Flight Simulator: the...
Approach and landing are considered critical phases of flight. Captain Amit Singh, FRAeS discusses how pilots can train to successfully switch between tasks in an emergency situation.
Ryanair became the first customer to take delivery of MPS FMS training systems. Six trainers will be installed at Ryanair’s East Midlands and Stansted training locations. The MPS FMS trainers will help Ryanair pilots to prepare for their simulator training. They can familiarize themselves with the actual FMS, thus...
The Madrid, Spain, based international technology company, Indra, has a three billion Euro annual sales record across all its disciplines, and some 40,000 people on the payroll in more than 140 countries. That weight has been behind its advances in fixed wing and rotary simulation which first started in the...
In recent years pilot training for airline operations has seen a series of developments and improvements, but these have not necessarily been transferred to training for business jet operations. Chris Long looks at the challenges faced.
easyJet, a European airline, announced that it has reached a key milestone in its ambition, by 2020, to attract 20 percent of new pilots joining the airline that are female. Over the past year, the company has achieved a new high of 15 percent of new entrants to the airline that...
L3 Commercial Aviation announced today the launch of the L3 Pilot Pathways Female Scholarship program, which will provide 10 scholarships to female candidates applying for its Integrated Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) training program. Within 2019, the program will award 10 successful female candidates a £25,000/€29,000 sponsorship towards the...
MINT Software Systems appointed Christian Popp as Chief Customer Officer (CCO), a new position that was recently created to harmonize the activities of the customer-facing departments of the company. Popp previously held the position of Manager Flight Safety Systems at JetBlue Airways. During his 10+ years at JetBlue, he...
Presagis™, a provider of simulation software and solutions, announced that it has achieved ISO9001:2015 certification. As part of the certification process, Presagis engaged in a rigorous process to define and implement an ISO9001:2015 certifiable Quality Management System for Modeling & Simulation Technical Services. ISO 9001 is the world's most...
NetJets and KURA Aviation's third round of First Officer recruitments is open through November 30, 2018 for experienced Pilots to apply to become First Officers with NetJets. The following interview with Richard Parkinson, pilot recruitment manager for NetJets Europe, provides insight into this recruitment campaign: Why are NetJets recruiting? Having...