Skyborne Airline Academy is hosting an online open day as they go more virtual amid the COVID-19 outbreak. The 20-minute online tour showcases its Gloucestershire Airport HQ, its aircraft and simulators to prospective trainees and their families. There is a video presentation which covers the application process and training...
Aerospace engineer Meggitt is leading a consortium of aerospace suppliers working on production of ventilators for Britain's National Health Service. The aerospace group also includes GKN, Airbus, Thales and Renishaw, British media reported. The consortium is one of three aiming to develop and produce 20,000 medical ventilator prototypes to...
French carrier strike group and its flagship, the aircraft carrier Charles de Gaulle, trained with the Standing NATO Maritime Group One (SNMG1) for four days last week. Their combined exercises ran between 19-22 March bringing together warships from Belgium, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom...
Flyco has released a free online COVID-19 course for its users. The course covers general information about the virus and some precautionary measures for fighting it. It is available on all the administrator panels. Flyco said the COVID-19 course takes approximately 15 minutes to complete. The UK-based e-learning provider...
FSTC Image courtesy of Minister for IT, Industries, MA & UD, Telangan @MinisterKTR Indian ATO Flight Simulation Technique Centre (FSTC) has inaugurated its new eight-bay pilot training facility in Hyderabad. An A320neo, Bombardier Dash-8 and ATR72-600 simulator occupy three of the bays with another five simulators positioned at FSTC's...
UK-based Inzpire has concluded delivery of electronic warfare training to European military delegates in Estonia. Named No.1 Baltic’s Electronic Warfare course, the training saw 25 ab-initio students studying a tailor-made electronic warfare curriculum. The students included air surveillance radar personnel, intelligence personnel and aircrew from Estonian, Latvian and Polish...
The International Air Transport Association (IATA) has welcomed decisions taken by aviation regulators to provide flexibility to airlines and flight crew during the COVID-19 crisis."Safety is the industry’s top priority. In this extraordinarily difficult environment, we are grateful for actions to ease regulatory requirements that do not impact the...
Gulf Aviation Academy (GAA) has received dual Type Certification from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA). It was for its new A320 full-flight simulator (FFS) for the A320ceo and A320neo engine types. It also covers UPRT training capabilities. The new FFS device will include training for the new engine...
A new German Army helicopter command will become operational in April next year. The new command is intended to streamline the decision-making process of the German-Dutch DSK (Division Schnelle Kräfte) Rapid Forces Division. The new command may also tie in other departments, such as the German Air Force and...
Alpes Aero, a French ATO based in Annecy, has bought an Alsim AL250 training device. The Alsim AL250 is a generic and compact simulator for single and multi engine piston (SEP/MEP reconfigurable) PPL, CPL & IR training. Alsim say the device responds well to training requirements of smaller and...