BAA Training received the second of the two additional full flight simulators it acquired in 2018. The Airbus A320 FFS has been assembled and is ready for training at the company’s headquarters in Vilnius. The first, a B737 NG FFS, was added in September. “Since the requirements for recurrent and...
A Luxair regional airliner was the first aircraft whose landing was controlled from the DFS Remote Tower Control Centre. The aircraft, a Bombardier DHC 8-400 from Luxembourg, touched down on the runway in Saarbrücken at 6:51 a.m. on 4 December 2018. At 6:53 a.m., a regional aircraft of the same...
Airbus and the French civil aviation university, ENAC, have obtained EASA certification for the co-developed ab initio Pilot Cadet Training Programme that will be used by a worldwide network of partner flight schools, starting with the first customer, Escuela de Aviacion Mexico (EAM), in Mexico city in early 2019. Pilot...
Symbiotics has created an aviation-specific survey with the aim of gathering some information around the new EASA regulatory changes encompassing pilot mental wellbeing and mandatory psychological assessments. They are looking to canvas opinions and gain industry insight from pilots, flight crew, training, health and safety, selection and assessment professionals on...
Center Air Pilot Academy and Air Greenland have introduced the first APS MCC (Airline Pilot Standard) in Denmark, a new and improved standard in pilot training. Chris Long reports.
Executive Director of Indra and Transport & Defense business Senior Vice President, Ignacio Mataix has advocated at the EU Aeronautic Conference for a strong and sustained public investment in and support for the air traffic management industry to secure Europe’s position in the civil aeronautics sector going forward. The annual...
Ryanair announced a major new training partnership with ATO SKY4u to deliver a Ryanair Airline Pilot Standard (APS MCC) programme in Berlin and Vienna. The partnership will ensure that Ryanair continues to attract highly trained professional pilots to support its continued growth across Europe. This new EASA approved enhanced MCC...
After the overwhelming success of the Student Education and Careers in Aviation (SECA) at the 2018 World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) in Orlando, Florida, SECA will be returning as part of WATS 2019 on May 2 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida. Over 170 Florida students...
BAA Training, a subsidiary of Avia Solutions Group, a global aviation holding, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Henan Civil Aviation Development and Investment Company (HNCA), which announced the start of cooperation for a Henan-based joint venture aviation training company in the People's Republic of China (PRC). As the...
The DiSTI Corporation is pleased to announce that they have been selected by HAVELSAN to develop glass cockpits for Turkish Airlines’ latest flight simulators. Under the agreement, DiSTI Professional Services will leverage GL Studio to develop high-fidelity instrumentation clusters for the Airbus A320 aircraft and 737 MAX cockpits for HAVELSAN...