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Peter Moxham, FRAeS, explains recent developments within EASA. Love it or hate it, EASA has entered a new era. 2013 has seen EASA FCL Regulations come into force in all member states together with Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, and EASA Flight Operations have been finalised for introduction over the next...   30 August 2013
John Bent, FRAeS, Chairman Training Practices Workstream, International Pilot Training Consortium (IPTC), states that the variability in quality and relevance in pilot training around the world has become an exacerbating factor requiring urgent collaborative action if reduced safety margins are to be avoided. Two significant airline challenges are being debated...   30 August 2013
Chris Long visits Lufthansa Flight Training and reports on its well-established MPL programme for ab initio training. Few issues in pilot training have generated as much discussion in recent years as the introduction of the Multi-Crew Pilot Licence (MPL). Some have ignored it, and sought to improve training merely by...   30 August 2013
JVC Professional Products Company has announced the DLA-VS2200ZG D-ILA projector. Engineered specifically for simulation environments, planetariums, and other visualization applications, the latest Visualization Series model offers 1920x1080 native resolution, and its next-generation optical engine delivers a minimum of 18,000:1 native contrast ratio. Build around an optical engine with three D-ILA...   30 August 2013
CAE has signed a contract for eight full flight simulators (FFSs), flight training devices and a 15-year maintenance and service agreement with an undisclosed customer. This is worth approximately C$210 million and brings the total number of FFS sales CAE has announced to date in fiscal year 2014 to 23.   30 August 2013
Alsim can now count a new operator amongst its clients, Norway's University of Tromso School of Aviation (UTSA), located in the north of Norway, has chosen the ALX to contribute to their flight school's excellence.   30 August 2013
Mechtronix has delivered and commissioned its fixed-base Airbus A320 FFT X™ - MPL for ST Aerospace Academy (STAA), the commercial pilot training arm of ST Aerospace, in support of the academy's Multi-crew pilot license (MPL) training. The concept of a device purely to support MPL Phase II training outcomes was...   30 August 2013
Southern Illinois University (SIU) is using Avsoft’s CRJ200 pilot training course in its Aviation Training program. Students enrolled in SIU’s program will be able to take advantage of Avsoft's University program that lets students use Avsoft's Web Based Training program for a discounted price. The WBT version of the CRJ-200...   30 August 2013
CPaT has delivered its Dash 8 CBT courseware to LATAM Airlines Group existing Dash course for full CPaT Mobile iPad App Availability. LATAM Airlines Group has a Dash Fleet of five aircraft in operation in Bogota and Medellin, Colombia.   30 August 2013
AgustaWestland’s new AW189 flight training device (FTD) at its A. Marchetti Training Academy in Sesto Calende, Italy was qualified by an EASA / ENAC joint team to FTD Level 2 as per CS-FSTD(H). It is installed in the new simulation building that will include up to nine full flight simulators...   30 August 2013