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...
Tulmar Safety Systems has announced an exclusive partnership with Essex Industries to supply Protective Breathing Equipment (PBE) training hoods for its customers worldwide. In addition to manufacturing the Essex PBE training hoods, Tulmar will handle sales and global after-market support. The Essex PBE provides crewmembers with ocular, head and respiratory...
Customer pilots have performed on-site acceptance testing of Reiser Simulation and Training's new full flight simulator for the Airbus H145 platform. Multiple missions covering the broad spectrum of challenging HEMS operations during day and night were conducted daily in order to prove the maturity of the company's new FFS product...
The Kuwait Ministry of Defence has appointed the Australian College of Kuwait and its partners Airways International Ltd. (NZ) and 3SDL (UK) as its training providers. The Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) will be responsible for overall training management along with engineering and flight training programmes while Airways will be...
Sikorksy and Bristow Group are working to enter into a long-term agreement that establishes Bristow as Sikorsky's preferred supplier for ab initio pilot training for Sikorsky aircraft customers at Bristow Academy. The intent of the agreement is to allow Sikorsky BlackHawk, S-70i, S-92, S-76 and Light Helicopter customers to complete...
Sonalysts, Inc. has been awarded a $14 million contract to develop two Standard Space Trainer, or SST, variants, for Air Force operators of the Milstar and the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (AEHF) satellite communication systems, both of which are elements of the overall Military Satellite Communications (MILSATCOM) system. The two...