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Alsim sold an AL42 VI simulator to Atlantic Flight Training Academy, a flight school located in Cork, Ireland. This will be the first Alsim simulator in the country. The device, an exact replica of the Diamond DA42, will be delivered during the first trimester of 2019. Capt. Mark Casey, Atlantic... 10 December 2018
Peak Pacific won the Brandon Hall Group Silver Award for Technology Excellence in the Best Advance in Learning Management Technology for Compliance Training category for its next-generation flight simulator training management system, Electronic Training Objects (eTo). A panel of veteran, independent senior industry experts and Brandon Hall Group senior analysts... 10 December 2018
BAA Training received the second of the two additional full flight simulators it acquired in 2018. The Airbus A320 FFS has been assembled and is ready for training at the company’s headquarters in Vilnius. The first, a B737 NG FFS, was added in September. “Since the requirements for recurrent and... 10 December 2018
A Luxair regional airliner was the first aircraft whose landing was controlled from the DFS Remote Tower Control Centre. The aircraft, a Bombardier DHC 8-400 from Luxembourg, touched down on the runway in Saarbrücken at 6:51 a.m. on 4 December 2018. At 6:53 a.m., a regional aircraft of the same... 7 December 2018
Joe Ping is the 4,000th aircraft maintenance technician to successfully complete FlightSafety's Master Technician training program. FlightSafety International announced that Joe Ping, manager, Aircraft Maintenance, Global Integrated Services – Aviation, Cummins Inc., is the 4,000th aircraft maintenance technician to successfully complete the Master Technician training program. Ping earned his... 7 December 2018
Airbus and the French civil aviation university, ENAC, have obtained EASA certification for the co-developed ab initio Pilot Cadet Training Programme that will be used by a worldwide network of partner flight schools, starting with the first customer, Escuela de Aviacion Mexico (EAM), in Mexico city in early 2019. Pilot... 6 December 2018
Symbiotics has created an aviation-specific survey with the aim of gathering some information around the new EASA regulatory changes encompassing pilot mental wellbeing and mandatory psychological assessments. They are looking to canvas opinions and gain industry insight from pilots, flight crew, training, health and safety, selection and assessment professionals on... 6 December 2018
Center Air Pilot Academy and Air Greenland have introduced the first APS MCC (Airline Pilot Standard) in Denmark, a new and improved standard in pilot training. Chris Long reports. 6 December 2018
The regulatory oversight of aeronautical service providers has traditionally been prescriptive. Mario Pierobon investigates the performance-based training and regulatory oversight initiative, particularly the work underway by European regulatory authorities. 6 December 2018
Executive Director of Indra and Transport & Defense business Senior Vice President, Ignacio Mataix has advocated at the EU Aeronautic Conference for a strong and sustained public investment in and support for the air traffic management industry to secure Europe’s position in the civil aeronautics sector going forward. The annual... 6 December 2018
Ryanair announced a major new training partnership with ATO SKY4u to deliver a Ryanair Airline Pilot Standard (APS MCC) programme in Berlin and Vienna. The partnership will ensure that Ryanair continues to attract highly trained professional pilots to support its continued growth across Europe. This new EASA approved enhanced MCC... 5 December 2018
After the overwhelming success of the Student Education and Careers in Aviation (SECA) at the 2018 World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) in Orlando, Florida, SECA will be returning as part of WATS 2019 on May 2 at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort in Orlando, Florida. Over 170 Florida students... 5 December 2018
BAA Training, a subsidiary of Avia Solutions Group, a global aviation holding, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Henan Civil Aviation Development and Investment Company (HNCA), which announced the start of cooperation for a Henan-based joint venture aviation training company in the People's Republic of China (PRC). As the... 5 December 2018
The DiSTI Corporation is pleased to announce that they have been selected by HAVELSAN to develop glass cockpits for Turkish Airlines’ latest flight simulators. Under the agreement, DiSTI Professional Services will leverage GL Studio to develop high-fidelity instrumentation clusters for the Airbus A320 aircraft and 737 MAX cockpits for HAVELSAN... 5 December 2018
Benefiting from the latest advances in non-invasive sensors and monitoring devices, HuMans, Thales’s Human Performance Monitoring solution is a new methodology and pedagogical tool that estimates pilots’ mental workload in real time and in an objective manner. The tool is integrated into Thales’s renowned Reality H Full Flight Simulator: the... 5 December 2018
Approach and landing are considered critical phases of flight. Captain Amit Singh, FRAeS discusses how pilots can train to successfully switch between tasks in an emergency situation. 5 December 2018
Ryanair became the first customer to take delivery of MPS FMS training systems. Six trainers will be installed at Ryanair’s East Midlands and Stansted training locations. The MPS FMS trainers will help Ryanair pilots to prepare for their simulator training. They can familiarize themselves with the actual FMS, thus... 5 December 2018
The Madrid, Spain, based international technology company, Indra, has a three billion Euro annual sales record across all its disciplines, and some 40,000 people on the payroll in more than 140 countries. That weight has been behind its advances in fixed wing and rotary simulation which first started in the... 5 December 2018
ST Engineering and the Singapore Economic Development Board (EDB) signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for a strategic growth partnership. The partnership aims to build new engines of growth by creating globally competitive industry ecosystems in Singapore. EDB aims to nurture and grow large Singapore enterprises that will drive economic... 4 December 2018
The security of global air transport operations took an important step forward this week, with a series of new agreements and recommendations being forged during the 2018 ICAO AVSEC Week by world aviation security administrations and bodies. More than 500 delegates representing 107 countries and 22 international organizations participating... 4 December 2018