CAE and Korea Airports Corporation (KAC) have inaugurated a new CAE training facility at Gimpo Airport in Seoul, Korea, to support the growing pilot training needs of Korean carriers including Jeju Air, Korean Airlines, Asiana Airlines, Eastar Jet and Air Seoul. The inauguration of the new six simulator bay...
Leonardo Helicopters has officially opened its AW101 Norway Training Centre at Stavanger Sola Airport. The facility, which is housed in a new annex at the Thales Flight Training Centre, but is operated and managed by Leonardo Helicopters, will act as a dedicated satellite of the company’s Yeovil Training Academy,...
ACS Flight Training, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cloud Global Group Ltd, has signed a contract regarding the purchase of an AL42 flight simulator – an exact copy of the Diamond DA42 – from Alsim. The contract was signed at AeroExpo UK, which took place at Wycombe Air Park...
Amsterdam, Netherlands-based Flame Aviation has received an order for its V9000 Commander cabin fire + smoke trainer from the flag carrier of Lebanon, Middle East Airlines (MEA). The V9000 Commander will be based at MEA's new training center at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut. It is due to...
Hong Kong Airlines is to deliver a cadet pilot program in partnership with L3 Commercial Training Solutions’ Airline Academy (L3 CTS) in a bid to support resourcing demands as it expands from a regional airline to an international carrier. The cadet pilot program, which is open for applications until...
Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT), the flight training program operated by Lufthansa Airlines, has selected the Cirrus SR20 as the aircraft type which will make up its primary training fleet. LAT has ordered 25 aircraft to lead its ab-initio, MPL and other flight training programs in Goodyear, Arizona. Delivery of...
ATR’s Paris Training Center, based near Charles de Gaulle airport, will soon benefit from the introduction of a brand-new ATR 72-600 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) manufactured by TRU Simulation + Training. The simulator, which will be EASA-certified, is due to commence operations as of November 2017. The OEM’s Paris...
CityJet has chosen to deploy Pelesys’ Training Management and Deployment System (TMDS) to meet future electronic training records management requirements. The carrier, which is headquartered in Ireland, will use Pelesys’ Qualification Management System (QMS) module to monitor, aggregate and maintain its employee qualifications. As a rule-based solution, QMS automates...
Norway’s Avinor Air Navigation Services has signed a framework agreement with Indra to provide the support needed for the deployment of the latter’s interoperability through European Collaboration (iTEC) air traffic management (ATM) system. Rafael Gallego, Director General of Indra, explains, “iTEC is a new and very advanced air traffic...
BA CityFlyer has once again selected FTEJerez to train the future pilots of its Multi-Crew Pilot Licence (MPL) programme. The MPL course will commence in November 2017, with successful cadets due to train in Jerez for the first 54 weeks before moving onto the Embraer type rating training with BA...