Airways Aviation has introduced a scholarship in collaboration with the British Women Pilots Association (BWPA) dedicated entirely to women. The £35,000 scholarship will to go towards the price of a full-time EASA pilot training course. It was revealed during an ‘Airline Pilot Careers Day’ held at company’s Oxford, UK...
Connecticut, US-based STEMPilot has helped educators in Florida’s Pasco County create an Aviation Mobile Lab in a former school bus so students can learn aviation skills and techniques. The Career Technical Education (CTE) Director of Pasco County, Terry Aunchman, and Brian Sawyer, who works with the Pasco County Aviation...
Norway-based Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) has taken delivery of three new DA40 NGs from Diamond Aircraft Canada as part of its ongoing expansion plans. The academy is currently building an all-new fleet of DA40 NG and DA42 NG aircraft. They are equipped with jet-fuel Austro engines and the Garmin...
43 Air School, the largest aviation training provider in South Africa, is to use MOMook software to manage its pilot training processes. MOMook’s aviation training management system has been designed to enable a smoother workflow by improving training scheduling, document management and expiration tracking, the student evaluation process for...
Japanese carrier All Nippon Airways (ANA) is to deploy ECA Group's Airbus A320 Flight Management System Trainer (FMST) on mobile platforms for its pilots. ECA Group's A320 FMST is a simulation which runs on tablets, laptops, desktop PCs or coupled with hardware replicas. Pilots can be trained in procedures...
ABX Air is planning to update and certify its Boeing 767-200 full flight simulator to provide Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT) enabled using the StallBox solution developed by Bihrle Applied Research Inc. This new capability will allow pilots to more accurately train to recognise and recover from a...
Norway-based Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) has ordered two new DA42 NG simulators from Diamond Aircraft in Austria to meet the growing demand for new airline pilots. PFA’s CEO, Frode Granlund, commented, “These simulators are a part of our long-term strategy and expansion plan. We have invested highly in people...
On 19 October 2017, Halldale Media's Chris Long witnessed the first Airbus A330neo take off at Blagnac in Toulouse, France for its maiden flight. The aircraft, MSN1795, is an A330-900 powered by the latest Rolls-Royce Trent 7000 turbofan engines and the first of three certification flight-test aircraft to fly.
FlightSafety International has promoted Scott Goodwin to the position of Vice President, Simulation. In his new role, Scott will have overall responsibility for the design, manufacture and support of FlightSafety’s full flight simulators and other advanced technology training devices. Scott joined FlightSafety in 2014 as Deputy Director, Special Projects,...
Canada-based Viking Air Limited has signed an agreement welcoming Ansett Aviation Training of Melbourne, Australia as the second Factory Endorsed Training Centre (FETC) for Viking CL-415 aerial firefighting aircraft. The FETC agreement will create a strategic partnership between Viking and Ansett Aviation Training that benefits CL-415 operators by ensuring...