Airways Aviation is offering potential aviators in Germany the chance to win a scholarship of €40,000 that will go towards their airline pilot training. Romy Howatt, Founder and Shareholder of Airways Aviation, commented, “The world is in need of airline pilots and we understand that for many potential aviators,...
Alsim has sold an ALX SEP (Cessna 172) MEP (PA44) and Beech 200 to OMNI Aviation Group which will be placed with the OMNI Aviation Training Center (OATC) in Portugal. OMNI Aviation Group has been a client of Alsim’s since 2008 and already owned an AL200 MCC. Alsim proposed...
The first six of 19 students have completed the airline-focused training portion of JetBlue’s Gateway Select competency-based programme for aspiring pilots. They are now continuing to earn their FAA-mandated 1,500 hours of flight time at a CAE facility in Arizona where they will work as pilot instructors. Following this,...
L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) is to supply Spring Airlines with two RealitySeven Airbus A320 full flight simulators as well as an Enhanced Flat Panel Trainer (EFPT). The two A320neo devices will be delivered in 2018 and 2019 and will join three RealitySeven A320 FFS systems already in...
Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, formally opens a new £1.3m 20,000 square feet facility for EDM next to the company’s Managing Director, Tony Bermingham, and the rest of EDM’s Directors. EDM welcomed the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to officially open its new £1.3m manufacturing facility at the UK...
Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) has finalised the development of its Generic Jet Training Device (GenJet), an affordable fixed base simulator for flight training organisations. MPS says the GenJet device is ideal for selection, APS, MCC, JOC, MPL2 and IFR training, with a design loosely based on the functionality of...
FlyRight, an FAA-approved Part-142 Pilot Training Center based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has added Bombardier Dash-8 training to its growing list of training programs. Following successful Level C qualification of its CAE-built Dash-8 100/300 simulator and instructor qualification from the FAA, FlyRight has begun offering initial/type, recurrent, upgrade and...
BAA Training estimates that more than 650 future pilots will have enrolled on its Ab Initio programmes by the end of 2021. This year, the number of students at BAA Training has increased sharply – those enrolling on Ab Initio programmes has almost doubled compared to 2016. The company...
CAE announced at Halldale Media’s 2017 Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) event in Singapore that it has expanded its agreement with Air Niugini to support the airline's Fokker F100 pilot training needs in the region. Pilots began training in the second half of 2017 and CAE instructors are...
With the recent announcement of A-Level results in the UK, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) is calling for the airline industry to ensure pilot selection is open to all and that those from less advantaged backgrounds are not put off. The association is arguing that training costs of...