Under a new agreement, Ottawa, Ontario-based OAS Flight Centre Inc. (Ottawa Aviation Services) is to become the fifteenth organisation in the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program (Jazz APP). The Jazz APP is aimed at establishing a direct career path for qualifying graduates and offers the opportunity for OAS's top-performing Canadian...
Emirates Flight Training Academy has taken delivery of its first two Cirrus SR22 G6 training aircraft in Dubai. A6-CTA and A6-CTB are the first of 22 single-piston engine Cirrus aircraft ordered by the Academy to train ab initio pilots. The two aircraft landed in Dubai following a transatlantic journey...
ATP Flight School has accepted delivery of its 300th training aircraft – a factory-new Piper Archer TX – as part of a three-year agreement with Piper for the purchase of up to 100 aircraft to increase training capacity and meet the growing demand for airline pilots. To stay ahead...
Airways Aviation is offering potential aviators in Germany the chance to win a scholarship of €40,000 that will go towards their airline pilot training. Romy Howatt, Founder and Shareholder of Airways Aviation, commented, “The world is in need of airline pilots and we understand that for many potential aviators,...
Alsim has sold an ALX SEP (Cessna 172) MEP (PA44) and Beech 200 to OMNI Aviation Group which will be placed with the OMNI Aviation Training Center (OATC) in Portugal. OMNI Aviation Group has been a client of Alsim’s since 2008 and already owned an AL200 MCC. Alsim proposed...
The first six of 19 students have completed the airline-focused training portion of JetBlue’s Gateway Select competency-based programme for aspiring pilots. They are now continuing to earn their FAA-mandated 1,500 hours of flight time at a CAE facility in Arizona where they will work as pilot instructors. Following this,...
L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) is to supply Spring Airlines with two RealitySeven Airbus A320 full flight simulators as well as an Enhanced Flat Panel Trainer (EFPT). The two A320neo devices will be delivered in 2018 and 2019 and will join three RealitySeven A320 FFS systems already in...
Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, formally opens a new £1.3m 20,000 square feet facility for EDM next to the company’s Managing Director, Tony Bermingham, and the rest of EDM’s Directors. EDM welcomed the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to officially open its new £1.3m manufacturing facility at the UK...
Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) has finalised the development of its Generic Jet Training Device (GenJet), an affordable fixed base simulator for flight training organisations. MPS says the GenJet device is ideal for selection, APS, MCC, JOC, MPL2 and IFR training, with a design loosely based on the functionality of...
FlyRight, an FAA-approved Part-142 Pilot Training Center based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has added Bombardier Dash-8 training to its growing list of training programs. Following successful Level C qualification of its CAE-built Dash-8 100/300 simulator and instructor qualification from the FAA, FlyRight has begun offering initial/type, recurrent, upgrade and...