Pictured (left to right): Captain Adrian Jenkins, AirAsia’s Chief Operating Officer; and Nick Leontidis, CAE’s Group President, Civil Aviation Training Solutions. CAE has launched its CAE Rise training system, the first commercial offering as part of its ‘Next Generation Training System’ strategic initiative, with longstanding customer AirAsia. The company...
The acknowledgement and acceptance of issues of mental health in the general population has, thankfully, recently become far less of a taboo subject. Whilst the extreme manifestation, in the form of suicide, only affects a small proportion, it nonetheless shows the tip of the iceberg of mental problems. That is...
Regional aircraft manufacturer ATR has implemented the Fox training management platform from Britannica Knowledge Systems (Britannica). The Fox training management platform is now managing operations at ATR’s five training centres in Toulouse, Paris, Johannesburg, Singapore and Miami, which together see over 3,500 pilot, maintenance, flight operations and cabin crew...
Vienna, Austria-based company Austro Control recently entered into a training service agreement with Flyco Training Solutions. Under the agreement, Austro Control will benefit from the use of Flyco’s Advanced Learning Management System (A-LMS) for its search and rescue pilots and other personnel. Flyco’s A-LMS offering includes an E-library consisting...
FlightSafety International has appointed Jeff Rose (pictured right) as Manager of its Learning Center in Columbus, Ohio, while his previous role as Manager of FlightSafety’s Learning Center in Atlanta, Georgia, will be taken over by Jamie Hopkins (pictured left). Jeff joined FlightSafety in 2001 as an instructor for the...
Ansett Aviation Training (Ansett) is developing a new three-bay aviation training centre adjacent to Brisbane Airport in Australia which will include the operation of a new ATR-600 full flight simulator. The company will also re-locate two existing Ansett-operated simulators, a Dash-8 and a Fokker F-100, from its Melbourne facility...
Robin Glover-Faure is to succeed Alan Crawford as President of L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) as Crawford moves on to lead the newly established L3 Commercial Aviation Solutions (CAS) sector, which includes CTS and L3’s Aviation Products businesses. Glover-Faure joined L3 CTS in 2016 as Vice President of...
In February, airBaltic is to host Pilot Open Days in several cities including Vilnius, Helsinki, Amsterdam and Stockholm as part of its plans to recruit more than 100 pilots in 2018. Pauls Calitis, the airline’s SVP Flight Operations, said, “Our route map is expanding, the fleet is growing and...
Turboprop manufacturer ATR is adding a brand new 72-600 full flight simulator (FFS) manufactured by CAE to its Toulouse training centre which will be ready for training from July this year. The simulator will be both EASA and FAA-certified, enabling ATR to provide customers and operators with 4,500 additional...