Pictured (left to right): Captain Reinhard Kraxner, Managing Director of OEAMTC Air Rescue; Dr. Roman Sperl, CEO of Reiser Simulation and Training GmbH; and Marco Trefanitz, Managing Director of OEAMTC Having previously signed a Letter of Intent, OEAMTC Air Rescue has now placed an order an Avionic Desktop Trainer...
Jazz Aviation LP (Jazz) has welcomed Caledon, Ontario-based Brampton Flight Centre to its Jazz Aviation Pathways Program (Jazz APP), bringing the number of educational institutions involved to 13. The Jazz APP was created in 2007 to create a streamlined career path for the pilot profession in Canada by offering...
L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) has launched a new cadet pilot training programme with Jetstar Asia Airways designed to develop high-calibre students into professional pilots for the airline. The first course is planned to start in mid-2018, at which point successful applicants will undertake six months of ground...
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...