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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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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
In recent years pilot training for airline operations has seen a series of developments and improvements, but these have not necessarily been transferred to training for business jet operations. Chris Long looks at the challenges faced. 4 December 2018
easyJet, a European airline, announced that it has reached a key milestone in its ambition, by 2020, to attract 20 percent of new pilots joining the airline that are female. Over the past year, the company has achieved a new high of 15 percent of new entrants to the airline that... 4 December 2018
L3 Commercial Aviation announced today the launch of the L3 Pilot Pathways Female Scholarship program, which will provide 10 scholarships to female candidates applying for its Integrated Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) training program. Within 2019, the program will award 10 successful female candidates a £25,000/€29,000 sponsorship towards the... 3 December 2018
MINT Software Systems appointed Christian Popp as Chief Customer Officer (CCO), a new position that was recently created to harmonize the activities of the customer-facing departments of the company. Popp previously held the position of Manager Flight Safety Systems at JetBlue Airways. During his 10+ years at JetBlue, he... 3 December 2018
Presagis™, a provider of simulation software and solutions, announced that it has achieved ISO9001:2015 certification. As part of the certification process, Presagis engaged in a rigorous process to define and implement an ISO9001:2015 certifiable Quality Management System for Modeling & Simulation Technical Services. ISO 9001 is the world's most... 3 December 2018
NetJets and KURA Aviation's third round of First Officer recruitments is open through November 30, 2018 for experienced Pilots to apply to become First Officers with NetJets. The following interview with Richard Parkinson, pilot recruitment manager for NetJets Europe, provides insight into this recruitment campaign: Why are NetJets recruiting? Having... 28 November 2018
Sunny Aviation, in Denver, Colorado in the United States, has purchased an H135 FTD Level 5 simulator from entrol. The simulator, entrol’s second simulator to be installed in the U.S., will be equipped with dual GTN 750, spherical visual with 6-channel projection system, high-resolution database and vibration system. The... 27 November 2018
United Technologies Corp. (UTC) announced the completion of its acquisition of Rockwell Collins and the company’s intention to separate its commercial businesses, Otis and Carrier (formerly CCS), into independent entities. The separation will result in three global companies: United Technologies, comprised of Collins Aerospace Systems and Pratt & Whitney, will... 27 November 2018
AeroStar has added another flight training device to our simulation efforts, a Red Bird FMX, which will be used to support Career Pilot Academy students here at our Kissimmee training campus. This device is the third recent addition to AeroStar’s simulation portfolio. The company acquired an A320 simulator in... 27 November 2018
L3 Commercial Aviation announced its first contract with Loong Air to deliver a significant order of three A320 Full Flight Simulators and two A320 Flat Panel Trainers to the airline within the next three years. The first Full Flight Simulator is scheduled for delivery in the first quarter of 2019,... 26 November 2018