Aerostar Training Services is now accepting enrollments for its Career Pilot Academy. This training is a full spectrum of flight training – from first flight to ATP and type rating – at its Kissimmee, Florida, campus. The company is now positioned to offer this training to both domestic and select...
FlightSafety International announced that David Dyche has been promoted to assistant manager of the company’s Learning Center in Tucson, Arizona. He joined FlightSafety in 2005 at the Tucson Learning Center as an Instructor for the Bombardier Learjet 45 aircraft. Dyche was promoted to Learjet 45 Program Manager, and then...
The Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organisation (JAA TO) has renewed its status as an ICAO Regional Training Centre of Excellence (RTCE). In order to be awarded the RTCE status, training organisations must comply with a series of high-level criteria including: being a full-member of the ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS Programme (TPP),...
Passion Air, a new indigenous carrier in Ghana that started domestic operations in August 2018, has awarded Avsoft International a long-term contract for its Dash 8 Q400 pilot training. Passion Air is using Avsoft’s Dash 8 Q400 aircraft systems eLearning course for pilot training, and will in the future...
HAITE Aviation Training and the Airways Aviation Group have come together to collaborate on the provision of joint commercial flight crew training services to help meet the unprecedented demand and growth in the global aviation industry. The HAITE training division operates 12 full flight Airbus and Boeing simulators spanning across...
Airbus and Thailand’s Civil Aviation Training Center (CATC) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together on projects to develop and implement maintenance training and pilot training courses in the country. Under the agreement, Airbus and the CATC will identify ways in which they can deepen their cooperation in...
FlightSafety International announced that Michelle Dodson has been promoted to Assistant Manager of the Wichita East Learning Center. She joins Chad Raney who also serves as Assistant Manager of the Center. Dodson joined FlightSafety in 2001 at the DFW North Learning Center. She started as a Dassault Falcon 20...
ICAO Secretary General, Dr. Fang Liu, and EUROCONTROL Director General, Eamonn Brennan, have formalized a new air navigation training cooperation agreement. Signed under the ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS Corporate Partnership umbrella, the new agreement will see ICAO and EUROCONTROL collaborating on joint air navigation training programmes and specific courses focused on...
FSANA is working to help alleviate some of the effects of the government shutdown on flight training providers around the country. Specifically, the company says it is aware of the fact that expiration of FAA Part 141 and 142 training programs authorizations represent a real potential threat to the continued...
Frasca International Inc. has partnered with Garmin to integrate Real Garmin G1000 NXi software into its new Frasca RTD (Reconfigurable Training Device). This is a first in the simulation industry, Frasca says, and has required extensive collaboration between Frasca and Garmin to ensure that Frasca’s simulation software and Garmin’s G1000...