More customers and attendees than ever visited the third MINT User Conference that took place in Hamburg, Germany from September 9-15. For the second time the MINT User Conference took place in northern Germany. As a great opportunity to meet fellow MINT users from many different aviation sectors, this year's...
Cardiff Aviation has strengthened its leadership with the appointment of Andrew Braley, as Commercial Director. Braley joins from A J Walter Aviation (AJW), where he was Director of Business Development. He has more than 30 years' global experience in aviation management and business development with organisations including AJW, Reed Elsevier,...
AirAsia has appointed Amit Singh as the Director of Flight Operations and Ganpathy Sampath as the Head of Engineering, for AirAsia India. Amit Singh has 20 years of experience in the airline industry, with the last seven years dedicated to developing and managing budget airlines. Ganpathy Sampath has over 30...
SimCom has completed the first initial training course for the new Total Eclipse using its recently qualified state-of-the-art Level D full flight simulator equipped with IFMS avionics. The course is comprised of six days of ground school, fourteen hours of brief/debrief time, and eighteen hours of simulator training. All systems...
The Airline Academy of Australia (AAA), located at Archerfield Airport, Brisbane, has launched a new venture targeted to assist low time pilots to make the transition from Commercial piston or Turbo prop pilot, to Airline Jet pilot and to hone the skills of those already flying in a multi crew...
FlightPath International and Ethiopian Airlines have announced the continued success of the International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) standard Multi-Crew Pilot Licence (MPL) programme that FPI designed and implemented for Ethiopian Airlines in October 2011. Recently, 26 of the first 48 cadets being trained with the MPL programme graduated with 100%...
FlightSafety International has introduced its new generation VITAL 1100 visual system. "VITAL 1100 offers unprecedented fidelity for a wide variety of uses with full flight simulators and a complete range of other advanced training devices," said Jon Hester, general manager, Visual Systems. "Our team of highly qualified engineers and designers developed...
L-3 Link Simulation & Training’s (L-3 Link) Crawley, UK-based operation has concurrently received Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) and European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Level D certifications on two Boeing 787-8 full flight simulators (FFS) installed at the Boeing Flight Services campus in Miami, Florida. On the two FFS’s, Boeing instructors...
FlightSafety International has been selected by Tianjin Airlines to design and manufacture a full flight simulator for the Embraer 190 aircraft. The simulator will be installed at the HNA Sanya Aviation Training Center in Sanya, China. It is expected to receive Level D qualification from the Civil Aviation Administration of...
Airlines today are facing the need to provide more realistic training for their pilots, especially for new hires who are used to and expect the latest advances in technology to be incorporated into their training. This often means providing more visual systems capability than the minimums that are required by...