PNG Air, an airline based in Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea, operating domestic and contract corporate charter work, has selected Avsoft International for its pilot training. PNG Air is using Avsoft’s Dash 8 Q100 and ATR 72-600 aircraft systems eLearning courses for initial pilot training and will use selected...
L3 Airline Academy held its latest pilot graduation ceremony on April 11, 2019. The event celebrated the success of 356 graduate pilots, marking the successful completion of their training programs. The graduates were joined by family, friends and senior industry figures to mark the occasion. Over 95 percent of...
Aviomar has acquired a new Boeing 737-800-based simulator by MPS simulation. The device will be dedicated to APS MCC training, type rating (OTD) and JOC training courses and will be located in the new Aviomar simulator training centre north of Rome. The device, expected to be delivered by June...
Symbiotics has recently closed responses on its aviation industry questionnaire from December, targeted at gathering insight and opinions around the new EASA Regulations into the psychological testing of pilots. This survey has provided some useful yet concerning information about the readiness of the aviation industry to comply with the...
Screenshot of Al Maktoum International Airport (OMDW) from the extensive library of airport visual databases provided to Emirates Flight Training Academy. Image Credit: Simthetiq Simthetiq’s X2 Visual System, powered by the aXion image generator, has been selected by Emirates Flight Training Academy for installation on three Cirrus SR22 and...
Sponsored Content As commercial aviation witnesses a boom across the world, more and more women are passionately striving to become a part of the industry. Women in airspace have transitioned from being employed as flight attendants to premier cockpit controllers. Compared with other countries in the Middle East and...
The newest and largest group of Multi-crew Pilot Licence (MPL) cadets will begin training next month at the Czech Aviation Training Centre (CATC) in Prague and will be available to airlines toward the end of 2020. They would join 14 other CATC MPL graduates who completed the program (two...
A $50,000 gift from The Boeing Company, in addition to several donations from individual WAI members during the recent 30th Annual International Women in Aviation Conference, has helped the organization to reach its goal of $1-million in its Endowment Fund. The fund enables WAI to expand the 2020 scholarship...
BAA Training announced the launch of an MPL training program by signing a partnership agreement with Avion Express. According to the agreement, Avion Express pilots are to start MPL training this August and will be ready to operate as F/O in 18 months from then. The aim of the...
Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) is investing a total of €89-million in pilot training equipment and in the infrastructure of its own training locations to meet the high customer demand. Currently, Lufthansa Aviation Training operates 54 full flight simulators (FFS). In 2019 and 2020, the training fleet of the training...