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A group of air traffic control students from Saudi Arabia are rating in their home country, just four months after completing ab initio training at Airways Training Centre in New Zealand. The students, from Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) completed their Airways training in July last year... 29 July 2013
ASTech's GEMS Online Exam has been cleared by the National Aviation Authority of Germany (LBA) and is now being used by ASTech's long-term customer Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) at their training sites in Hamburg and Frankfurt. The system was also introduced to training managers of Part-147 training organisations or airlines,... 29 July 2013
FARNAIR Training has developed an online training tool for the ATR 42-300 and ATR 72-500 types. Parts of this MBT (Multimedia Based Training) are now published every month, free of charge, so anybody interested can make use of it without any limitations or obligations. A new ATR Cold Weather Operations... 29 July 2013
Pelesys has signed deals with Nigerian-based Arik Air and Air Greenland for aviation courseware. Arik Air has purchased B737NG, A330 and A340 e-learning type rating courses and Air Greenland will be provided with an integrated Learning Management System and an Exam and Assessment Generation System to manage their pilot training. 29 July 2013
Avsoft is now providing courseware to DAC Aviation, Skies Aviation of Sweden and First Air of Canada. All the contracts provide access to Avsoft’s flexible Block Hour Licensing (BHL) program that allows airlines and training organizations to instruct hundreds of pilots for one hourly rate. 29 July 2013
Indra is to supply two new EC225 transport helicopter simulators to Eurocopter. The systems will be implemented in the training centres of the aircraft manufacturer in Malaysia and Brazil. The databases of the EC225 training systems will include real scenarios with the coastlines and airfields of each country. ... 29 July 2013
FlightSafety International’s Eurocopter EC135 Level-D qualified full flight simulator, located at its Dallas Learning Center, has received Night Vision Goggle qualification from the FAA. This is the first qualification of its type under the National Simulator Program’s Guidance Bulletin 10-01. FlightSafety’s NVG training courses for the EC135 provide in-depth instruction... 29 July 2013
Rotorsim has had its CAE 3000 Series AW139 full flight simulator (FFS) certified to Level D by the ENAC (the Italian Civil Aviation Authority). The new AW139 FFS was jointly developed by AgustaWestland and CAE and it is the third for Rotorsim and the second located at the AgustaWestland Training... 29 July 2013
A TCAS will soon be available for Alsim’s jet simulators. The company has enhanced the traffic generation system on the Instructor Station to be able to specify traffic relative course and altitude. A TAS, Traffic Advisory System, will be available for bi piston flight models. Weather radar is also in... 29 July 2013
CAE has won a series of long-term commercial training and services contracts, including seven full flight simulators, training devices and update services, worth more than C$300 million. A 10-year contract has been signed with LAN and TAM Airlines to be conducted at CAE training centres in Santiago, Chile; Sao Paulo,... 29 July 2013
