GECI Española (GECI) has contracted Micro Nav Limited to upgrade the Air Traffic Control (ATC) simulator at the Empresa Cubana de Aeropuertos y Servicios Aeronáuticos (ECASA) training department. Micro Nav's BEST (Beginning to End for Simulation and Traiing) simulator at ECASA was originally installed over ten year ago. The installation...
Egis, an international consultancy, engineering and operation group is pooling expertise with Camas, a French group specialised in airport training, to create a new aviation training centre in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire. The CMA (Centre des Métiers de l'Aviation) was born from the objective of the two groups to pool their...
The Joint Aviation Authorities Training Organisation (JAA TO) has been elected as a Member of the ICAO TRAINAIR PLUS Steering Committee (TPSC) for the period from 2017 to 2019. The election was amongst the Full Members and Regional Training Centres of Excellence (RTCE) of the TRAINAIR PLUS Programme. With 49...
In 2016 Flight Training Europe (FTEJerez) announced a new partnership agreement with OSM Aviation. In terms of this agreement, OSM/Norwegian Airlines and FTEJerez jointly selected FTE's graduates to fly as First Officers for OSM's largest client, Norwegian Airlines. Since the announcement in 2016 some 14 FTEJerez graduates have joined Norwegian...
Hawaiian Airlines has unveiled a new Airbus A321neo full flight simulator (FFS) at its corporate headquarters flight training facility. The simulator will allow Hawaiian to continue its Advanced Qualification Program for pilots, as the airline prepares to introduce 18 A321neo aircraft to its fleet starting early next year. Hawaiian employs...
L3 Technologies has been awarded a contract valued at more than $115 million by HNA Group's Hainan Sky Plumage Flight Training Co. Ltd. to provide 11 full flight simulators and auxilliary training equipment over the next 18 months. This new business award follows the successful delivery of three RealitySeven™ Airbus...
Airways College, a flight training school created 30 years ago, has confirmed its desire to go abroad and in particular spread in Africa. The school signed a contract with Air Cote d'Ivoire in 2015 to train its cadets. The first promotion accomplished the theorectical part of the training in Yamoussoukro,...
Last month the University of South Australia (UniSA) started a second Bachelor in Aviation program in partnership with Flight Training Adelaide (FTA). The three year degree program now has 90 students enrolled. In parallel with the Bachelor of Aviation program, FTA delivers ground theory and flight training for the UniSA...
Aer Lingus has selected Pelesys' Training Management and Deployment System (TMDS) to meet their future eLearning and electronic training records management requirements. Aer Lingus will use Pelesys' Learning Managementn System (LMS) to distribute Pelesys' A320 and A330 type courses along with a complete complement of differences CCQ and aviation Special...
ALSIM Flight Simulators and Orient Flights Private Limited has signed an MoU to mutually support each other in the creation of simulator centres in India whose main focus will be to offer PPL, CPL, IR/SE/ME, MCC and JOC, MPL Phase 1 & 2, to the standards of DGCA/EASA/FAA. This training...