Photo credit: Royce POH / Airbus Asia Training Centre The Airbus Asia Training Centre (AATC) in Singapore has installed its second Airbus A320 full flight simulator (FFS), bringing the total number of FFSs at the facility to seven. The new A320 FFS is at Airbus Std. 1.9.1 and can...
Pictured (left to right:) Jessica Waite and Hanna Gillam, recipients of the first female ab initio pilot scholarship created by Airways Aviation in collaboration with the British Women Pilots' Association On 8 March 2018, Airways Aviation announced the two recipients of its new female ab initio pilot scholarship, Hanna...
Legislation introduced on 7 March by a bipartisan group of U.S. senators aims to address the persistent shortage of aviation maintenance technicians. The bill would establish a new pilot programme to train maintenance professionals, help veterans transition to civilian careers and recruit new technicians. Grants of up to US$500,000...
Australia-based Ryan Aerospace has announced the impending release of HELIMOD Mark III, a more sophisticated and modular version of the HELIMOD Mark II helicopter simulator control hardware recently exhibited at Heli-Expo in Las Vegas. HELIMOD Mark III is the result of two years’ work aimed at addressing the problem...
UFA, Inc. (UFA) has delivered its ATTower tower simulator to the University of Massachusetts – Amherst (UMass Amherst). The ATTower system consists of a 7-channel simulator with three controller working positions (Local, Ground and Radar), three pseudo pilot positions and one instructor/data preparation position. UMass researchers will use ATTower’s...
Ahead of the Student Education and Careers in Aviation (SECA) conference being held on 19 April 2018 in Orlando FL. as part of the World Aviation Training Summit, Captain Kevin W. Daisey from Hawaiian Airlines, who is speaking at SECA, offers his thoughts on the next generation of airline...
On 6 March, Netherlands-based AVION celebrated the inauguration of the Simliner flight training centre in Luqa, Malta, which has become the first to operate the new AVION Phantom 320 level D full flight simulator (FFS). The FFS was qualified by EASA for level-D operations in November 2017. It will...
Okay Airways has become the latest airline to join Boeing’s commercial Pilot Development Program (PDP) alongside other Chinese customers including Kunming Airlines and YTO Airlines. Through the PDP, which is designed to develop cadets into 737 type-rated first officers, Boeing will oversee the screening, selection and training of 100...
FlightSafety International has appointed Keith Anderson as its new Director of Engineering for simulation products. In this role, Anderson is responsible for all aspects of the design, development and support of FlightSafety’s training devices, including full flight simulators and other training products and equipment such as MATRIX, FlightSafety’s integrated...
CAE has signed an exclusive five-year pilot training agreement with low-cost carrier T'Way Air, which is based in Korea, and will support its increasing Boeing 737NG pilot training needs from the second half of 2018. “As we experience rapid growth and expand our fleet, we are looking to our...