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17 June 2025 Patrick Johnston Singapore Airlines Group will hire 300 former Jetstar Asia employees—100 pilots and 200 cabin crew—following the low-cost carrier's announcement that it will cease operations on July 31, 2025, creating one of the largest workforce transitions in recent Asia-Pacific aviation history and generating significant demand for simulation training services.
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Image courtesy of KLM UK Engineering KLM UK Engineering Limited have appointed Graham Casbourne as Business Development & Sales Director as of 11th November. KLM UK Engineering is a wholly-owned AFI KLM E&M subsidiary. It specialises in maintenance and training solutions for regional and narrow-body aircraft fleets. Casbourne started... 14 November 2019
Airways International’s TotalControl simulator will be used by air traffic control trainees at the United Kingdom’s Takeoff Aviation Academy. Airways will provide Takeoff Direct Ltd with a desktop tower simulator and a surveillance simulator. This will be the first installation of a TotalControl simulation solution in the United Kingdom. 14 November 2019
Select Aviation College, a Canadian flight training organization located in Québec, has bought two AL250 simulators from ALSIM. This follows Select Aviation’s purchase of an Alsim ALX in late 2017. The AL250s are reconfigurable between several classes of piston aircraft. They will help to grow the Canadian flight school’s... 14 November 2019
Flight Options Flight Academy has placed an order for a Frasca Piper Seminole RTD (reconfigurable training device). The RTD is an FAA approved AATD and has also received Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority (CASA) approval as a category B synthetic trainer. The device will be configured as a Piper... 13 November 2019
AeroGuard Flight Training Center announced the opening of its 5th campus, located at the Punta Gorda Airport in Charlotte County, Florida. For AeroGuard, this marks its first campus on the East Coast with other locations in Riverside, California, Austin, Texas, Chandler, Arizona and Phoenix, Arizona. The curriculum taught at... 13 November 2019
FlightSafety now offers EASA-qualified initial and recurrent training for Gulfstream G500 aircraft operators at its Learning Center in Savannah, Georgia. FlightSafety also announces that Richard Hallows has been promoted to Assistant Manager of the Farnborough Learning Center. “We are committed to provide Gulfstream G500 operators around the world with... 13 November 2019
AVIOMAR Flight Academy will host an open day at the Monterotondo Training centre on the Ryanair Mentored APS MCC Course. The event will take place on Nov. 30th. The event is open to those interested in the Ryanair APS MCC course, such as student pilots attending an ATPL Integrated or Modular... 13 November 2019
EUROCONTROL and Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) have used full motion flight simulators to evaluate the feasibility of “Secondary Runway Aiming Point (SRAP)” and “Increased Glide Slope (IGS)”, concepts focused on capacity and environmental benefits. SRAP permits ‘light wake’ category aircraft to fly a final approach above the approach profile of heavier... 13 November 2019
David Jones, President of Quantified Design Solutions “…a training company, using the best tools available for the job.” Group Editor Marty Kauchak interviewed Jones at the VR/AR Global Summit in Vancouver, British Columbia. While Orlando, Florida-based Quantified Design Solutions’ expanding portfolio is focused on creating skill-based trainers, “a lot... 13 November 2019
FlightLogger has signed up its 10th customer in the UK, with Aviation South West employing the Danish software company to digitilize its business. Image courtesy of FlightLogger Aviation South West is a family-owned flight school based at Exeter Airport, England. FlightLogger has helped more than 90 ATOs from 36... 13 November 2019
Turkish ATO Plus Istanbul Flight Academy, a Zero to ATPL training specialist, has purchased an Alsim AL250 simulator. Image courtesy of Alsim The compact simulator is for single & multi engine piston (SEP/MEP reconfigurable) PPL, CPL & IR training. The device meets all regulatory standards and responds to training... 12 November 2019
The 23rd Flying Training Squadron (FTS), which is responsible for training helicopter pilots and enlisted aircrews and preparing them for their next assignments, is using virtual-reality (VR) technology to increase their numbers. First Lt. Matthew Gulotta, 23rd Flying Training Squadron student pilot, demonstrates the use of the flight simulation,... 12 November 2019
FlightSafety International introduces FlightSmart, a fully integrated training tool developed in conjunction with IBM. FlightSmart is designed to increase training effectiveness and enhance safety through automated, intelligent and objective training. “FlightSmart will set a new higher standard for personalized, highly-effective pilot training,” said David Davenport, president & CEO. “This... 12 November 2019
Pictured above are a few of the hundreds of 2019 WAI Scholarship Winners. Source: WAI Thousands of dollars in scholarships will be awarded at Women in Aviation International (WAI)’s 31st Annual International Women in Aviation Conference, and the time to apply is now. To qualify for a scholarship, the... 12 November 2019
Avion in partnership with IAGO is opening a new training centre in London offering Dry and Wet Lease pilot type training and providing the London area with greater choice, improved customer experience and enhanced collaborative training opportunities. 7 November 2019
Spanish simulator manufacturer, Simloc, has integrated the ATC flight communications simulation system, SERA, to its FSTDs. SERA (Simulated Environment for Realistic ATC) is a software that improves pilot training by adding realistic communications with air traffic control towers (ATC) to flight simulator operations. In this way the instructor is... 7 November 2019
Fidelity Flight Simulation Incorporated dba F2Si and TRU Simulation + Training have entered into a long term agreement to develop and deliver 10 Cessna 172S flight training devices (FTDs) at Levels 5, 6, or 7. Recent market research shows a growing need for C172S training devices to meet the... 6 November 2019
Qatar Airways have signed up flight data animation company CEFA Aviation to better analyze its flights. The safety department of the airline will recreate flights quickly and easily thanks to the CEFA FAS software based on the data from the flight recorders. The purpose is to better understand selected... 6 November 2019
Vietnamese carrier Vietjet has placed a firm order for 15 A321XLR and will convert five A321neo aircraft from its existing backlog. The announcement was made during a visit to Airbus headquarters in Toulouse by Vietjet President & CEO Nguyen Thi Phuong Thao, hosted by Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury. During... 6 November 2019
CAE has concluded the previously announced strategic partnership with Directional Aviation Capital (DAC), as well as the acquisition of 50 percent of the shares of SIMCOM Holdings Inc. As part of this transaction, which was first announced on August 29, 2019, CAE acquired for approximately US$85 million a fifty-percent... 5 November 2019