infoWERK announced the closure of an agreement with Aruba Airlines for the implementation of its eLearning program, FOO training. The training is delivered through a customized learning portal that includes both initial and recurrent training and aims to offer high quality state-of-the-art online training as well as operational flexibility and...
infoWERK will release its new Route Competence Training eLearning course in early 2019. Due to the increasing requests received from infoWERK’s clients, particularly from corporate jet operators outlining the need and the possible benefits of having an eLearning course for route competency, infoWERK decided on a cooperative development together with...
The annual EATS gathering could easily be renamed the European Airline Training Action Symposium. Rick Adams reports on what the industry’s thought leaders focused on in Madrid.
Alsim sold an AL42 VI simulator to Atlantic Flight Training Academy, a flight school located in Cork, Ireland. This will be the first Alsim simulator in the country. The device, an exact replica of the Diamond DA42, will be delivered during the first trimester of 2019. Capt. Mark Casey, Atlantic...
Peak Pacific won the Brandon Hall Group Silver Award for Technology Excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for Compliance Training category for its next-generation flight simulator training management system, Electronic Training Objects (eTo). A panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts...
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...