FlightSafety International and Sikorsky have announced the entry into service of a new Graphical Flight-deck simulator designed specifically for the Sikorsky S-76D helicopter. The Graphical Flight-deck simulator is a key component of MATRIX, FlightSafety's Integrated Learning System. MATRIX is used throughout FlightSafety Learning Centers and by other leading organizations worldwide.
Bohemia Interactive Simulations (BISim) has released a new version of VBS IG, which shares a common baseline with Virtual Battlespace 3 (VBS3) and inherits the many improvements of the latest version of VBS3. VBS IG provides common visualization technology for the land, sea and air training domains with a highly...
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...
The Empire Test Pilots' School (ETPS) has been recognised by the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) as an Approved Training Organisation (ATO), certified to train test pilots to civil standards. The accreditation means ETPS is one of three schools in the world, and the first in the UK, able to...
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL), the engineering division of Monarch, has launched its aeronautical engineering apprenticeship scheme for summer 2017. The four year scheme, which originally began in 1971, has already produced over 760 high calibre engineers and this year the intake increases from 18 to 22. The available positions...
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...
FlightSafety International is now offering FAA-approved Part 142 Night Vision Goggle initial training for Airbus Helicopters H135, Bell 212, and Bell 412EP using Level D qualified simulators. FlightSafety has also introduced an NVG eLearning recurrent course. "The ongoing expansion of our NVG training for helicopter pilots demonstrates our investment and...
FlightSafety International is now offering FAA-approved Part 142 Night Vision Goggle initial training for Airbus Helicopters H135, Bell 212, and Bell 412EP using Level D qualified simulators. FlightSafety has also introduced an NVG eLearning recurrent course. "The ongoing expansion of our NVG training for helicopter pilots demonstrates our investment and...