On the opening day of EATS 2019, CAE launched the Loganair Graduate Pilot Program and signed a new three-year pilot training contract with the British airline. "The launch of Loganair’s Graduate Pilot Program is a great opportunity for aspiring professional pilots," said Maurice Boyle, Loganair COO. "We are giving...
L3Harris Technologies has provided 10 L3Harris Pilot Pathways Female Scholarships for 2019 towards the cost of the company’s Integrated Airline Transport Pilot License (APTL) training. "We are passionate about encouraging more women onto the flight deck," said Geoff van Klaveren, Vice President, L3Harris’ Airline Academy. "It’s a significant issue...
Barcelona-based airline Volotea has signed an exclusive five-year contract with Airbus to train all its pilots. The training will start in January and includes Type-Rating as well as long-term Recurrent training linked to Volotea's growing fleet of Airbus A319s – which will exceed 50 aircraft in 2023. The organization...
Construction has begun on the BAA Training China facility in Zhengzhou city, Henan province. A ground breaking ceremony took place on Oct 25 at the site, which is scheduled to open in the second half of 2020. When fully open, it will house six full flight simulators. BAA expects...
Pilot training manufacturers Simloc will join forces with cabin crew specialists Flight Level at European Airline Training Symposium (EATS) in Berlin from October 29-30. The joint partnership approach follow the recent purchase of a Flight Level stock package by Simloc. The two companies will receive people at booth 609...
Global Training Aviation (GTA) has unveiled its new Level D B737 flight simulator, which is ready for training. The simulator has been developed by Indra, which holds a 35.07% stake in GTA. It may take control of GTA in the future. Fernando Abril-Martorell, President of Indra, and Fernando Gómez...
Nortavia, a pilot training and flight school in Maia, Portugal, has bought an AL250 simulator from Alsim. The AL250 is a generic and compact simulator for single & multi engine piston (SEP/MEP reconfigurable) PPL, CPL & IR training. The device meets all current regulatory standards. The ATO uses Cessna...
Avion Training has become FlightLogger's fifth customer in the Netherlands. Avion, based near Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam, sell simulator products and pilot training. FlightLogger digitalized Avion's training manuals. This allows Avion to provide students with a digital training experience with mission/lesson/session, briefing, grading, flight time and debriefing available on...
AXIS Flight Training Systems will install a Cessna Citation CJ1+ full flight simulator at Austria's Aviation Academy Simulation. The Citation CJ1+ light business jet simulator will be EASA CS-FSTD(A) Level D certified, the highest industry standard for a FFS. It replicates a standard Citation CJ1+ and features a Rockwell...
Britannica Knowledge Systems has officially opened its new office in Dallas, Texas. “Opening the new office in Dallas enables us to be closer to our customers than ever before and provide them with more services and improved support,” said Barak Kirmayer, VP Delivery & Operations at Britannica. “The Dallas...