Ab initio and advanced cadets with senior Virgin Australia management On 30 October, Virgin Australia relaunched its cadet programme with Flight Training Adelaide (FTA). The programme consists of two streams – one for ab initio pilots and one for individuals already holding a commercial pilot license from the Civil...
OSM Aviation is acquiring a 51% share in Scandinavian Aviation Academy (SAA), which will result in the opening of a new training centre, OSM Aviation Academy, at Arendal Airport Gullknapp. SAA currently operates a pilot school at Stockholm Västerås International Airport in Sweden and in San Diego in the...
Left to right: Dean Fisher, VP Global Commercial Training Solutions & Business Development, CAE; and Ulrich Lindner, Senior Director & Head of Commercial, Lufthansa Aviation Training CAE has sold the world's first airline-operated Boeing 777X full flight simulator (FFS) to Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT). As the launch airline customer...
Venyo has finalised a deal to provide Primera Air’s facility in Copenhagen, Denmark, with a Boeing 737NG fixed based simulator (FBS). The simulator, which features an aircraft-specific shell and flight deck as well as a Q4 Services collimated visual system, will be installed at the beginning of next year.
TRU Simulation + Training Inc. has signed agreements to provide Airbus with two full flight simulators (FFS) – one for the Airbus Asia Training Center in Singapore and one for the Hua-Ou Aviation Training Company in Beijing. The agreements follow Airbus’ evaluation of TRU’s Airbus FFS as well as...
ALSIM has sold an ALX (SEP Complex, MEP, MEJ) simulator to Aeroclub di Varese, a flight school located in Venegono Inferiore, Italy. Aeroclub di Varese’s fleet consists of fifteen directly owned aircraft. The latest acquisitions are two Tecnam P2002JF’s equipped with Rotax engines and Garmin 500 and GNT 650...
Cairo, Egypt-based Nile Air is to use Flyco Group’s Advanced Learning Management System (A-LMS) and bespoke courseware to streamline and modernise its operations. Nile Air’s courseware library will consist of content for pilots, cabin crew members, dispatchers, technicians, managers, handling personnel, loadmasters and ground personnel. As the carrier operates...
From left to right: Samuel Avila II, CEB’s VP Flight Operations; Lance Gokongwei, CEB’s President and CEO; Steven Young, Owner of FTA; and Johan Pienaar, CEO of FTA. Cebu Pacific (CEB) has launched a cadet pilot training programme in partnership with Flight Training Adelaide (FTA) to address expansion requirements...
Together with Seeing Machines, Emirates has been using advanced gaze tracking technology to better understand how pilots interact and monitor instruments during real-time procedures that could pose safety risks. Emirates is collecting gaze data from a sample of Emirates line pilots while they’re flying standard training scenarios in Emirates...
Jeff Van West has joined PilotWorkshops.com LLC in a newly formed Creative Director position. His primary responsibility will be managing the development and creation of the company’s pilot proficiency training programmes, including their flagship IFR Mastery programme. Jeff has 19 years of experience developing numerous aviation projects, ranging from...