ATR’s Paris Training Center, based near Charles de Gaulle airport, will soon benefit from the introduction of a brand-new ATR 72-600 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) manufactured by TRU Simulation + Training. The simulator, which will be EASA-certified, is due to commence operations as of November 2017. The OEM’s Paris...
UFA delivered the 39th ATTower Tower Simulation System (TSS) to the United States Navy as part of the USN TSS Project. This latest TSS was installed at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. The ATTower system integrates ATView 3D airport visualization; full ATVoice Voice Recognition and Response...
CityJet has chosen to deploy Pelesys’ Training Management and Deployment System (TMDS) to meet future electronic training records management requirements. The carrier, which is headquartered in Ireland, will use Pelesys’ Qualification Management System (QMS) module to monitor, aggregate and maintain its employee qualifications. As a rule-based solution, QMS automates...
Avsoft has been awarded a contract from AIS Flight Academy, part of the AIS airline group, based in The Netherlands to provide e-Learning products and LMS services for its Boeing 737-400 aircraft systems course. This course will be used as for Type and Recurrent training for AIS customers at its...
AeroStar and SkyBlue Jet Aviation, of Stuart, Florida, are teaming up to promote their type ratings services. AeroStar offers pilot type ratings training in the A320 and B737 aircraft, along with ATP-CTP, and SkyBlue Jet Aviation offers initial Cessna Citation type rating and Citation recurrent training on the Citation 500,...
Fiji Airways has selected Flight Training Adelaide (FTA) to conduct flight deck crew selection on the airline's behalf. Under the agreement reached between the two companies, FTA will conduct a screening program for candidates to join the airline as direct entry flight deck crew. Mr. Pine Pienaar, FTA's CEO commented:...
The Seminole County Sheriff's Office recently purchased an ELITE TH-1000 advanced aviation training device (AATD) from ELITE Simulation Solutions in Oviedo, Florida. This single-seat AATD is FAA certified and replicates their current fleet of Airbus AStar Helicopters with a 3-screen enhanced visual system. The Seminole County Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit...
Alpha Aviation Group has launched its new multi-million dollar full flight Airbus A330/A340 simulator at a ceremony at its Clark training facility in the Philippines. The first widebody simulator in the Philippines, the simulator has complete Airbus A330 and A340 functionality - fully replicating the cockpit experience and functions of...
Three pioneers of the global aviation training community were recognised at the annual meeting of airline, regulatory and industry training experts, WATS 2017 (World Airline Training Summit). Awarded by CAT magazine, the three individuals received the first 'CAT Pioneer' awards and will have subsequent awards named for them as part...
BA CityFlyer has once again selected FTEJerez to train the future pilots of its Multi-Crew Pilot Licence (MPL) programme. The MPL course will commence in November 2017, with successful cadets due to train in Jerez for the first 54 weeks before moving onto the Embraer type rating training with BA...