Skyborne Airline Academy is launching a Skills Continuation Training in reaction to the coronavirus outbreak. The Skyborne programme supports graduates who suffer delays in securing airline placements because of coronavirus.  The refresher training provides continuous support and mentoring by an experienced flight instructor. It also includes two hours of instructor-led training in Skyborne’s DA42 simulator...

Organisers of IT²EC have postponed next month's event in London because of the COVID-19 outbreak. "The UK and other global Governments have this week considerably strengthened their advice in relation to the current coronavirus outbreak, and are now recommending that businesses and individuals take steps to reduce all forms...

Alpha Aviation Academy UAE has signed up to use Web Manuals Sweden AB for its document management. Web Manuals Sweden will provide a solution to simplify the production and distribution of manuals. Based in Malmo, the company expects to render the service by the first of week of April.

  VRAI, an Irish data-driven VR simulation company, have won the Dublin City Enterprise Award. They receive €5,000 and will Dublin City at the 22nd National Enterprise Awards on May 28 at the Mansion House in Dublin. VRAI will compete against 30 other finalists from every local authority area for...

Exercise Defender-Europe 20 will reduce in size and scope because of the COVID-19 outbreak and recent guidance by the U.S. Secretary of Defense. As of March 13, all movement of personnel and equipment from the United States to Europe ceased. The U.S. Army said the health, safety and readiness...

The Ministry of Defence (MOD) is exploring how telexistence capabilities can benefit U.K defence and security. The MOD said it wants to better understand the technology readiness level to inform future investment. It wants solutions that allow users to interact with or immerse themselves in a remote location as if...

Blackshape and Transavia Airlines have signed an exclusive teaming relationship to enhance initial and recurrent training of Transavia pilots. Transavia started its own initial pilot training program last year. The program also leverages an existing partnership with Zelf Vliegen, an ATO in Lelystad, Netherlands. They will use the Blackshape...

SKY4u has chosen the German Flight School ARDEX to deliver the Advanced Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT). The UPRT includes theoretical and practical flight training. The aim is to prepare SKY4u student pilots for situations in unusual flight conditions. Pilots should be able to safely and quickly return...

Alpha Aviation Academy UAE (AAA) has ordered an A320 FTD-2 from Dutch-based MPS. They will deliver the simulator to AAA's facility at Sharjah Airport in mid-2020. The A320 FTD-2 will allow the Academy to provide additional capacity for the Type Rating and MPL training for pilots. This order comes...

Inzpire Limited’s Collective Training Division has recently delivered the final Exercise IRON DRAGON under the Distributed Synthetic Air and Land Training (DSALT) programme. Since 2017, Inzpire’s synthetic training experts have delivered three iterations of the week-long IRON DRAGON exercise, providing divisional level training at the Air Battlespace Training Centre...