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FlightSafety International has promoted Steve Gross to senior vice president, Commercial. He is responsible for FlightSafety's business aviation and regional airline training sales activities worldwide. Steve Gross joined FlightSafety in 1996 and has held a number of positions with increasing responsibility since then. Steve has served as regional marketing manager...   28 January 2016
Luiz Hamilton Lima has joined FlightSafety International as airline training Sales Manager for Europe, the Middle East and Africa. Luiz joins FlightSafety from Embraer after more than 35 years with the company. He held a number of positions of increasing responsibility including Program Manager for the Embraer E-170 E-Jet, Senior...   28 January 2016
A fully loaded aircraft in the colours of a reputable airline departs on a routine night flight. It is being operated by a crew that has been trained to the latest regulations. During the initial phases of the flight, everything goes perfectly smoothly. But what occurs next happens more often...   28 January 2016
By one accounting, incidents of disruptive behavior or unruly passengers are decreasing. But as even one such incident can produce catastrophic onboard consequences, airlines continue to include unruly behavior in their cabin crew training programs. The air carriers are also getting help from training providers to provide this training, reports Group...   28 January 2016
IndiGo is India’s largest and fastest growing low-fare airline, offering 671 daily flights to 39 destinations. Chris Long explores the training programs for this developing company. Whenever a new low cost carrier arrives on the scene it is always interesting to discover what business model it will use. There is,...   28 January 2016
In November more than 200 delegates from 40 ICAO Member States attended ICAO’s Regional Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium in New Delhi, India. Chris Long reports. The Minister for Civil Aviation of India, Ashok Gajapathy Raju opened the ICAO Regional Aviation and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium in New Delhi, India, and...   28 January 2016
Don’t look for it soon, but there’s a fundamental re-write coming in how training is defined for pilots and other aviation personnel. Rick Adams surveys the status and expectations for key regulations and guidance. The wave of pilot training and simulation re-evaluation which began a decade ago with the International...   28 January 2016
The ADAC Helicopter Emergency Medical Service Academy is the world’s first integrated training centre for helicopter pilots, emergency doctors and rescue paramedics in the air rescue services. Walter F. Ullrich reports. The German automobile club ADAC is Europe’s largest motoring organization, and yet it has a subsidiary which one would...   28 January 2016
Aviation eLearning has developed a new cockpit training application for Primera Air. By using this engaging and interactive application to train their flight crew, the airline aims to reduce simulator and FTD use, minimize classroom training, use simulator time more efficiently, minimize actual aircraft use for equipment training and...   26 January 2016
Pelesys has released it updated 2016 Dangerous Goods course plus a new version specific to cabin crew training. Pelesys' Dangerous Goods course is designed for experienced flight crew and cabin crew who require either initial or recurrent training in the transportation of Dangerous Goods by aircraft. Both courses feature...   26 January 2016