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...
R1 Airlines, based in Calgary, Canada, has selected Avsoft for its pilot training and, as such, will use its eLearning system for Dash 8 Q300 training with -100 differences as well as CRJ 200 pilot training. Captain Lanny Benoit, R1 Airlines’ VP Operations, commented, “We are pleased to select...
Alsim has sold two AL250 FNPT II simulators to Astonfly, a flight training school located in Toussus-le-Noble, near Paris, France, which are due to be delivered early this year. Astonfly trains more than 100 pilots per year (both private and professional), representing about 11,000 flight hours, using a fleet...
L3 Technologies is to expand the pilot training centre at L3 Link's headquarters in Arlington, Texas by adding approximately 40,000 square feet and more than doubling the size of the high bay site. The expansion of the training centre, which is close to Dallas Fort Worth International Airport and...
Ansett Aviation Training simulator instructor Captain John Laming (pictured) recently celebrated his 86th birthday, which the company believes makes him one of the oldest pilot training simulator instructors in Australia and, possibly, the world. John began his flying career in 1948 as a ‘general dogsbody,’ working for the Sydney...
The world’s largest gathering of aviation training professional’s returns to Orlando, FL on April 17-19, 2018, to discuss ‘The Role of Technology and Data in Optimizing Career Paths, Human Performance and Operational Safety’. The event will share the latest training technologies, instructional techniques, “best practice” and “lessons learned”, whilst...
FlightSafety International’s first Gulfstream G500 full flight simulator (FFS) has received interim Level C qualification from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The FFS is the first business jet simulator equipped with FlightSafety’s CrewView collimated glass mirror display, which provides distortion-free optical performance with greater clarity, sharpness, and brightness. It...
All Nippon Airways (ANA) will become the first airline outside the U.S. to implement the FAA's Advanced Qualification Program (AQP) using the Fox Training Management System (Fox) from Britannica Knowledge Systems. The Japanese carrier is now in the process of adopting Fox to oversee AQP qualification management and compliance...