by Marty Kauchak Session 5 – Focus on Current Air Carrier Training Issues Industry veteran Scott Nutter of Delta Air Lines, passed on valuable lessons learned to delegates assembled during the first presentation, regarding his office’s experience meeting aircrew training expectations and requirements for a rapidly evolving Delta fleet. It’s an...
by Marty Kauchak Session 1 – Opening Remarks and Keynote Addresses John S. Duncan, the director of Flight Standard Service at the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), echoed a persistent theme at this and recent WATS gatherings – that while many safety trends are improving or holding constant, “We’re using technology...
CAE announced today at the 2018 World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) the qualification of its first CAE 7000XR Series Airbus A320 full-flight simulator (FFS) to FAA Part 60 Change 2 requirements, covering Extended Envelope and Adverse Weather Training. This follows an industry collaboration held earlier this year at CAE...
Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) has entered an agreement with OSM Aviation Academy (OSMAA) at the 2018 World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) to build and install an MPS B737-800W flight training device (FTD) at OSMAA’s training Center in Vasteras, Sweden. MPS will also move the center’s current MPS B737 FNPT-II/MCC...
Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) was contracted to deliver a B737 MAX FTD for a new training center in the UK. MPS closely works with Boeing and Rockwell Collins on the development of its simulators and designed them so that current MPS B737 NG simulators can be field upgraded to a...
Boeing expanded its order with TRU Simulation + Training for four 737 MAX full flight simulators to five and Airbus ordered an A350 full flight training suite for an Airbus Training Center in Asia. The new Boeing 737 MAX FFS order will become the first one for Icelandair and is...
L3 Technologies’ Commercial Training Solutions (CTS) business has been selected by easyJet to provide simulator time on a new RealitySeven™ full flight simulator (FFS) at the L3 CTS London Training Center, a state-of-the-art facility that is being developed near London Gatwick Airport. The two-year agreement, which begins in October 2017,...
Sundog Software has released version 5 of its SilverLining Sky, 3D Cloud, and Weather SDK for simulation and game developers that offers a new representation of storm clouds for more immersive flight training in dangerous weather conditions. "SilverLining 5 includes a new library of hand-modeled cumulonimbus thunderheads and towering...
The first Bombardier C Series full-flight simulator (FFS) – built by CAE and installed at the Bombardier Training Centre in Montréal – was qualified to Level D, the highest qualification for flight simulators by Transport Canada; the U.S. Federal Aviation Authority; the European Aviation Safety Agency; and the Ministry of...
Simlat delivered a C-STAR simulation lab for human factors research to Drexel University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. As part of Drexel's membership in the FAA UAS Center of Excellence, the Alliance for System Safety of UAS through Research Excellence (ASSURE), the university has been using Simlat's C-STAR system to study human factors...