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Group editor Marty Kauchak examines the emergence of serious games-enabled learning in the civil aviation market. One of the more intriguing developments in the military learning space is the ascendancy of serious games for learning. CAT’s sister publication MS&T follows defense organizations’ use of militarized versions of games to supplement... 20 September 2015
Chuck Weirauch visited growing low-cost carrier JetBlue to find out how their expansion plans incorporate all aspects of training. With a reported record third quarter 2015 operating revenue and net income, JetBlue Airways is continuing a series of such financial successes this year. The low-cost airline is expected to increase... 20 September 2015
A key element of the US Next Generation Air Traffic System, PBN training for pilots and air traffic controllers is expanding, reports Robert W. Moorman As Performance Based Navigation (PBN) procedures increase in the US, so has training for professional pilots and air traffic controllers. Various major and regional airlines... 20 September 2015
White lamps are giving way to blue lasers as the light source for richer, full-colour simulation visual projectors, and motion cueing systems are being further refined for ever more demanding applications. Rick Adams reports on the technology evolution in front of and under the sim cab. Mention the word ‘laser’... 20 September 2015
If you are looking at the world from the perspective of the beautiful city of Budapest, Hungary, the surrounding airline world is largely influenced by Wizz Air, which is based there. Because the influence of this Low Cost Carrier is principally in Central and Eastern Europe it has not yet... 9 September 2015
The 18th annual World Aviation Training Conference & Tradeshow (WATS) took place at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, in Orlando, April 21-23. Conference Chair Chris Lehman captures some of the highlights of what is always a very intense three days. With over 1,100 attendees hailing from 50-plus countries and 110 airlines, WATS broke new delegate and airline attendance records once again. Already the world’s largest gathering of aviation... 22 July 2015
At WATS 2014 a new company, TRU Simulation +Training, was introduced to the community. About one year later, Jim Takats, TRU’s chief executive officer, recapped the quick pace of activities which have established his company as an emerging global provider of training and simulation products and services, throughout the entire learning continuum. Group... 22 July 2015
Two recent regional airline events - the Regional Airline Association's 2015 Annual Conference held in Cleveland in May and the Regional Airline Training (RATS) track at the 2015 World Aviation Training Conference and Tradeshow (WATS) held in Orlando in April - highlighted issues affecting this sector. Chuck Weirauch reports. Both the RAA and WATS/RATS events featured sessions that dealt with the mutual concerns... 22 July 2015
Chris Long looks at the unique training services offered by French company novoSpace. As Jean-Francois Clervoy, a three-time NASA Shuttle astronaut, well knows, there is still a lot of research to carry out into the effects of zero-g. For decades, part of that task has been carried out inside aircraft which... 22 July 2015
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recently grouped all the training elements in the organisation together, and held the inaugural ICAO Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. Chris Long reports. It is always challenging to pick a suitable venue for a global conference, but Dublin can give claim... 22 July 2015
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