Rick Adams
Rick Adams, FRAeS, is Chair of the World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) pilot conference. An Aviation Journalist for 4 decades, he is Co-Founder of AviationVoices.com, former Editor of Halldale's CAT and MS&T magazines, ICAO Journal, and IFALPA Journal; a writer for several leading aviation and defence magazines; and Communications Director for leading Aerospace companies.
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Rick Adams interviewed the Founder and President of the AMFTA, Jean-Michel Bigarré, and Assistant Secretary Susannah Crabol in Toulouse, France. 4 November 2022
The Airline Pilot Club has grown to 8,800 members as they raise the training standards for pre-selection and ATO quality. 10 October 2022
Defence ministers from the 27 EU countries this week discussed the possibility – but have not yet reached unanimous agreement – to launch a military training mission for Ukraine. 31 August 2022
Ostensibly, vAAETS was a conference about aviation training in Korea, and certainly that was the primary emphasis of the presentations. 8 August 2022
Capt. Jean-Michel Bigarré, who has been named President of the Aircraft Manufacturer Flight Training Association, promised: “this organization will be a game changer for enhancing flight safety.” 26 July 2022
In its first aircraft forecast in four years, European manufacturer ATR predicts 2,450 new turboprop commercial aircraft in the period 2022-2041. 25 July 2022
Phillip A. Washington has been nominated as the next ‘permanent’ Administrator of the US Federal Aviation Administration. It’s a tough job. Highly visible to the traveling public, national aviation system problems – real or perceived – are magnified by soundbite-seeking politicians.
CAT Editor Rick Adams, FRAeS examines the challenges that await. 12 July 2022
An Allen-Vanguard-led consortium has delivered Explosive Threat Reduction Team training courses to Somalia security forces personnel. 17 May 2022
The ‘G-35’ – SAE International’s new standards committee for Modeling, Simulation and Training (MST) for New Emerging Technologies and Concepts – will meet as a full body 7-8 June at CAE’s training center at the Dallas-Fort Worth, Texas airport. The committee was launched last September to develop consensus-based standards for implementing advance technologies such as eVTOL while maintaining and enhancing safety. 12 May 2022
CAT Magazine is devoting increasing coverage of the emerging electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft market. Rick Adams, FRAeS, CAT Editor-in-Chief; explains why in this overview of the rapidly expanding sector. 12 May 2022
