CAE have signed new commercial aviation training contracts with Fly Gangwon and Philippine Airlines. Fly Gangwon, a new low-cost South Korean carrier, has signed a five-year pilot training agreement for the Boeing 737 aircraft platform. Pilots will begin their initial type-rating training with instructors at the CAE Seoul centre...
French flight school Aéropyrénées have agreed to purchase an EASA and FAA certified AL250 simulator from ALSIM. The compact FNPT II addresses initial phase training needs (PPL, CPL, IR/ME) and is SEP/MEP configurable. The Perpignan-based school already operate the ALSIM ALX and AL250. "As leader in professional pilot training...
The fifth group of airBaltic Pilot Academy students have begun their two-year, full-time course. Thirteen students have signed up for training with the Latvian airline. "We are proud that this is already the fifth group of students at the Latvian airline’s Pilot Academy and this is a second group...
Inzpire have delivered the second iteration of an electronic warfare course at RAF Linton-on-Ouse. The two-week course is organised for the European Defence Agency under the umbrella of the Helicopter Exercise Programme. Twenty trainees from Austria, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Finland, Slovenia, Sweden and the UK took part. The...
CAE has entered into an $85 million strategic partnership with corporate aviation service company Directional Aviation Capital (DAC). CAE will acquire a 50 percent stake in SIMCOM Holdings and form a joint venture with DAC affiliate, Volo Sicuro. In addition, DAC's affiliated business aircraft operators, including Flexjet, Flight Options...
The Afghan Air Force (AAF) has awarded a $50.4 million Firm Fixed Price contract to MD Helicopters Inc (MDHI) for logistics support of its MD 530F Cayuse Warrior helicopter fleet. MDHI has provided contractor logistics support (CLS) services to the AAF since the first MD 530F training aircraft arrived...
U.S.-based Piedmont Airlines Inc have signed a new service agreement with MINT Software Systems. MINT will provide the MINT TMS to enhance the flight crew training, planning and qualification management of the airline. Piedmont, a subsidiary of American Airlines Group Inc, carries over three million passengers a year to...
BHP Mitsubishi Alliance is trialing the use of virtual reality headsets to prepare miners for life underground at its Broadmeadow Mine in Queensland, Australia.
Polish technological company InventionMed will build a "virtual hospital" in Bydgoszcz to demonstrate and test medical simulators. InventionMed said the $7.45 million project will feature "indispensable research facilities" in a five-storey, 3,000 sq metre building. The Polish Ministry of Development have provided a $4 million grant towards the project.
The first set of pilots have graduated from VA Airline Training's new Airline Career Training (ACT) course, designed to help pilots prepare for airline assessment, interview and employment. Ruth Spalding, an experienced airline industry pilot assessment and recruiter, ran the three-day course. The ACT also incorporates two hours of...
