Britannica Knowledge Systems is unveiling at next week's European Airline Training Symposium (EATS), a new approach that facilitates access to the Fox training management platform for every airline, flight school and training provider. Designed to manage training for pilots, cabin crew, maintenance and ground crew, Fox's packages provide all the...
ALSIM sold an AL172 simulator to Paragon Flight Training in Fort Myers, Florida. The AL172 is an exact replica of the Cessna 172 SP Skyhawk NAVIII. It features real Garmin G1000 NXI avionics and is equipped with the Alsim High Definition Visual System (HDVS). The HDVS lets the AL172...
airBaltic Pilot Academy in Riga, Latvia received the Diamond Aircraft DSIM flight training simulator it ordered earlier this year. The device supplements the training aircraft used by the academy. In February, airBalticTraining ordered three single-engine DA40 NGs and one twin-engine DA42-VI from Diamond Aircraft for its newly established Pilot...
Virtual Aviation, a flight simulation training provider, named Anthony Petteford as Executive Director. Petteford also joins the company as an investor shareholder. Petteford has over 21 years of direct senior leadership experience in global aviation pilot training, having served as Managing Director of Oxford Aviation Academy and as Vice...
The Wings Alliance, a non-profit association of Flight Training Schools, launched the Whitetail Cadet Program that gives individuals with little or no flying experience an opportunity to complete their European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) training through an alliance of Flight Training Schools in Spain, Sweden and the U.K. The 16-month...
Alsim sold an AL250 simulator to Aviation Pilot Training, a flight school in Cape Town, South Africa. The device will be delivered in the first quarter of 2019. The AL250 features modern technology advancements and is EASA-FNPT II (Flight Navigation Procedures Trainer) certified. It addresses initial phase training needs for...
Several aviation education organizations in China selected Frasca International to provide flight training devices for their programs this year. New orders for 2018 include a Level 5 Archer Flight Training Device (FTD) for Chengdu Fanmei Aviation Industry Co, in Chengdu, Sichuan; a Cessna 172 Level 5 FTD for Hebei...
Janine Lythe celebrating her award in back in 2017 with former instructor Jop, who won the 2015 Scholarship and is now a HEMS pilot Helicentre Aviation Academy doubled its pilot scholarship award by allocating an additional £75,000 in part-funded training scholarship awards for its 2018 Professional Helicopter Pilot Scholarship...
Jetstar Airways (Australia) selected PRODEFIS TPMS for the implementation of Evidence-based Training (EBT) and to have a paperless training organisation. Jetstar Airways is a subsidiary of Qantas, operates Airbus A320 and Boeing B787 aircraft throughout Australia, the Asia Pacific region and the United States. PRODEFIS TPMS is an all-in-one IT...
Airmedic, a privately-owned air medical provider in Quebec, Canada, purchased three Airbus EC145e aircraft from Metro Aviation for air medical transport, which will support lifesaving missions. The new helicopters bring Airmedic’s fleet to nine aircraft dedicated to Emergency Medical Services (EMS) and, Metro says, will be the first EC145e models...