Pictured (left to right): Ergin Erdin, Chief Executive of Flyco Group; and Racaru Gheorghe, CEO of Blue Air Romania’s Blue Air has become the first European carrier to purchase and implement Flyco Group’s Competency based E-Training (CompBT) for its flight crew. Flyco’s all new CompBT works as a two-stage...
Pictured (Left to right): Captain Paolo La Cava, Director of Etihad Aviation Training; and Chris Youlten, Managing Director of Etihad Airport Services at Etihad Aviation Training in Abu Dhabi. The Etihad Aviation Group has relaunched Etihad Flight College, its aviation training organisation, as Etihad Aviation Training, based across two...
The new Air Georgian Tuition Assistance Programme provides employees with financial assistance for educational courses and programmes as well as paid time off to pursue personal and professional educational goals. All Air Georgian pilots are guaranteed an interview with Air Canada through a Pilot Mobility Arrangement. Because Air Canada...
Virtual Aviation (VA) has launched its new ‘AirlineReady’ APS MCC course, the first of its kind to be approved by the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) in the UK. The APS MCC course structure was introduced by EASA to deliver enhanced MCC training to Airline Pilot Standards. It is intended...
Flyco Training Solutions (Flyco) is to provide Romania’s flag carrier TAROM Airlines with E-training solutions for its crew and personnel. Flyco’s E-library consists of content and training material for pilots, cabin crew members, dispatchers, technicians, managers, handling personnel, loadmasters and ground personnel. With the recent expansion of its aircraft...
Avsoft has delivered a new Windshear course to a customer for pilot training which explores the important concepts, definitions, limitations, components, and procedures related to low level windshear. Topics discussed on the course include associated weather features including thunderstorms and microbursts, associated terrain and ground structures, the effects of...
Photo credit: Royce POH / Airbus Asia Training Centre The Airbus Asia Training Centre (AATC) in Singapore has installed its second Airbus A320 full flight simulator (FFS), bringing the total number of FFSs at the facility to seven. The new A320 FFS is at Airbus Std. 1.9.1 and can...
Pictured (left to right:) Jessica Waite and Hanna Gillam, recipients of the first female ab initio pilot scholarship created by Airways Aviation in collaboration with the British Women Pilots' Association On 8 March 2018, Airways Aviation announced the two recipients of its new female ab initio pilot scholarship, Hanna...
On 6 March, Netherlands-based AVION celebrated the inauguration of the Simliner flight training centre in Luqa, Malta, which has become the first to operate the new AVION Phantom 320 level D full flight simulator (FFS). The FFS was qualified by EASA for level-D operations in November 2017. It will...
Okay Airways has become the latest airline to join Boeing’s commercial Pilot Development Program (PDP) alongside other Chinese customers including Kunming Airlines and YTO Airlines. Through the PDP, which is designed to develop cadets into 737 type-rated first officers, Boeing will oversee the screening, selection and training of 100...