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United Airlines and Airline Training Center Arizona (ATCA), a wholly owned subsidiary of Lufthansa Flight Training, will collaborate on a new Career Path Program (CPP) for pilots. This relationship serves to address the upcoming pilot shortage in the US by providing a reliable source of pilots to United and instructors...   15 March 2016
An air traffic control (ATC) training programme helping Airways New Zealand students to gain work with one of Europe's premier air traffic services providers has been launched. Airways, the Inter American University of Puerto Rico (UIPR) and FerroNATS have collaborated to offer the programme, and the first group of trainees...   15 March 2016
Rainer Hiltebrand, former COO of Swiss International Air Lines and head of the "New Groupwide Training Company" project has succeeded Florian Hamm as Chairman of the Board of Lufthansa Flight Training. Rainer Hiltebrand completed his pilot training at the Schweizerische Luftverkehrsschule (SLS) in 1978. Afterwards, he worked as a pilot...   15 March 2016
Quantum3D, Inc. has been selected by Reiser Simulation and Training GmbH to provide image generators and synthetic visual databases for Reiser's civil full flight simulator (FFS) for 4t class helicopters. The planned FFS will be used for helicopter training primarily in civil urban traffic environments and in offshore scenarios. The...   15 March 2016
FlightSafety International’s simulator for the Sikorsky S-76C+™ and S-76C++™ located in Singapore has been qualified to Level D by the United States Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). The facility has also been approved to provide FAA PART 142 training under FlightSafety’s single certificate. The new FlightSafety FS1000 simulator built for the...   15 March 2016
Aerosim Technologies have signed a contract with Envoy Air to deliver one E175 virtual procedure trainer (VPT) and seven desktop E175 virtual flight deck (VFD) stations. The VPT also contains a fully simulated flight deck and will be delivered with simulated aircraft hardware to include backdriven thrust levers, a mode...   11 March 2016
LATAM Airlines Group has selected the Fox Training Management System from Britannica Knowledge Systems as the new software solution for its Corporate Academy, which trains a vast range of service, leadership, technical, security and support personnel. Through Fox, LATAM's multiple learning and training operation management systems will be consolidated into...   8 March 2016
Etihad Flight College has expanded its fleet of trainer aircraft with the delivery of two Extra EA 330 LT aircraft. The aircraft were shipped and reassembled by the manufacturer at the Flight College's hangar in Al Ain and will be showcased at the Abu Dhabi Air Expo, where they will...   8 March 2016
Airways Aviation is establishing global headquarters at London Oxford Airport, United Kingdom, supporting its rapid global expansion strategy. Airways Aviation relocates to Airways House at the Oxford-based airport in April, as demand for high-calibre commercial flight training has seen its UK-based cadet numbers double in 2015. Cadet numbers are predicted...   8 March 2016
JetBlue has launched its seventh pilot recruiting pathway, Gateway Select, the airline's new competency-based training program for aspiring pilots. JetBlue also announced that it will partner with CAE to help deliver Gateway Select's training curriculum, leveraging CAE's experience in delivering competency-based training prgrams to airlines throughout the world. Gateway Select...   8 March 2016