FlightSafety International plans to offer training for the Bombardier Challenger 605 aircraft at its Greater Philadelphia/Wilmington Learning Center beginning in April, following the FFS’s Level D qualification by the FAA and EASA.
Aerosim has announced an agreement with Flybe Training Academy for an Embraer 170/190 and Dash 8 Q400 convertible Aerosim Virtual Procedure Trainer (VPT). This will be Aerosim's first procedure training device that will have the ability to convert between two different aircraft types. Flybe will also receive Aerosim's Virtual Flight...
This fall, students in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's flight programs in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, will receive training in motion-based full flight simulators in preparation for new FAA training requirements. In Daytona Beach, students will be trained in a full motion simulator from FlightSafety International in the campus' Advanced...
CTC Aviation Group (CTC) will be delivering a new airline pilot training programme exclusively for Indian students. Chief executive officer Rob Clarke announced the program during a UK Government market visit led by Prime Minister David Cameron to India. “We are actively engaged with a number of Indian airlines to...
Boeing and Singapore-based SilkAir have announced a five-year exclusive pilot training agreement which will support SilkAir's fleet transition to Boeing airplanes. Boeing Flight Services will provide flight training at Boeing's Singapore training campus for the airline's new 737 fleet.
Baltic Aviation Academy (Lithuania) has signed a partnership agreement with Aviacom Inc., one of the leading providers of general aviation flight simulators in India, as its representative for the Indian subcontinent. EASA approved training courses proposed for the Indian market include Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) courses, type rating training,...
Chris Long provides an update on Turkish Airlines training and simulation capabilities. In recent years the rapid expansion of the airlines in the Gulf and Asia has been promoted largely through the media coverage of the big-number aircraft orders from those regions. The commercial centre of gravity of aviation is...
What’s a solution to more congested airspace and pilot information overload? How about simulation in the cockpit? Rick Adams reports. Simulation for commercial aviation seems to be coming full circle. The original objective of modeling and simulation was to replicate the real world as faithfully as possible to provide a...
Chuck Weirauch takes a look at the unique training challenges facing US regional airlines while complying with new aviation law. With the clock ticking towards August 2, 2013, when the sections of Public Law 111-216 that require airline first officers to have become ATP certified and accrue 1,500 hours of...
Chris Long journeys east to investigate the training and simulation expertise of Japan’s largest airline. As Yong Choi, Supervisor Flight Crew Standards indicates, the first time All Nippon Airways operated under that name was in 1957, when it started to service the domestic market of some 123 million people; international...