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London Biggin Hill Airport will launch a new apprentice program with East Surrey College to open aviation operations career opportunities to the local community. Five apprentices will assist trained airport professionals with the daily operations of hangars and ramps at London Biggin Hill. The program will launch in September 2019,... 14 September 2018
airBaltic Pilot Academy welcomed 12 cadets into its second group to begin studies at its Pilot Academy in Latvia. The cadets will become airBaltic pilots after completing the two-year program. The airline hopes this pilot-training program it launched last year will help it secure more Baltic pilots, and says it saw... 13 September 2018
Coptersafety named Juha Ahtola as head of Quality and Safety and Mikko Kallio as head of Training and Development. Both Ahtola and Kallio will report to Mikko Dahlman, CEO, Coptersafety. Ahtola will succeed Timo Honkavaara, who was promoted to Chief Operating Officer focusing on Coptersafety’s rapid growth. Ahtola will be... 13 September 2018
The IFA Aviation Training Center in São Domingos de Rana, Portugal acquired an Alsim ALX simulator as part of its modernization strategy. The Alsim ALX acquired by the IFA is an EASA CS-FSTD A-FNPT II MCC simulator, which allows to replace flight hours per simulated flight hours in the PPL,... 12 September 2018
Capt Dharmadi and Capt Ardy with Pacsim Director of Operations, Russell Hubber in the EuroJet FTD Flybest Flight Academy in Batam, Indonesia purchased two flight simulators from Pacific Simulators to complete their Jet Orientation Courses for pilots, including a EuroJet Cockpit Procedures Trainer (CPT) and a ProJet PS4.5... 12 September 2018
infoWERK is working on the IMENSIM research project on optimized use of simulators through the integration of mental training techniques with other Austrian groups: the Institute of Psychology at the University of Graz and AMST Systemtechnik GmbH in Ranshofen. The project is supported and funded by the Austrian Research Promotion... 12 September 2018
Delta Air Lines launched the Propel Pilot Career Path Program at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s two residential campuses in Daytona Beach, Florida and Prescott, Arizona to help meet the need for the more than 8,000 new pilots it expects to hire over the next decade. The Delta Propel program will... 12 September 2018
Commercial 2 Corporate (C2C), a private aviation service provider that offers specialist training courses, will launch a cabin crew-training program with KURA Aviation in October that will teach cabin crews how to transition to corporate aviation from commercial. The 2-day C2C Essentials training course will give cabin crews the knowledge and... 12 September 2018
Alsim sold an AL250 simulator to Flyschool Air Academy in Madrid, Spain. The AL250 features modern technology advancements and is EASA-FNPT II (Flight Navigation Procedures Trainer) certified. It addresses initial phase training needs for Private Pilot License (PPL), Commercial Pilot License (CPL) and Instrument-Rating on Multi-Engine aircraft, (IR/ME) and is Single-engine... 11 September 2018
Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS), a developer and manufacturer of fixed-base simulators, received EASA Level 1 Flight Training Device (FTD-1) certification for its 737 MAX simulator from the Dutch Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) after its testing in the MPS factory in the Netherlands. The fixed-base simulator is a replica of the... 10 September 2018
Cloud Global Group acquired a second Diamond DA42 Twinstar aircraft for its subsidiary company, ACS Flight Training. The £1-million investment will double the Twinstar fleet used for commercial flight training at Perth Airport in Scotland. The DA42 features an environmentally friendly diesel engine and a Garmin G1000 glass cockpit with... 6 September 2018
Sponsored Content The Royal Aeronautical Society’s annual International Flight Crew Training Conference, which takes place in London from 25-26 September, is focused on addressing the changes occurring in training programmes as they move from task-and-hour-based to output-and-competency-based training. The conference will reflect on the Competency Based Training & Assessment (CBTA)... 5 September 2018
Spatial, a provider of cabin crew training simulators, won a contract to build and install a Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainer (CEET) and a Cabin Service Trainer (CST) for Aircalin’s cabin crew training program at its training facility in New Caledonia, France. The hybrid A320 / A330 CEET will train the... 5 September 2018
Reiser Simulation and Training (RST) received EASA Level D Full-Flight Simulator (FFS) qualification for the H145 it installed at Norwegian Competence Centre Helicopter (NCCH) in Stavanger, Norway last month. RST developed the FFS that includes a full NVIS-compatible replicated H145 helicopter cockpit and simulated Helionix® Step 2 avionics suite. The... 5 September 2018
Virgin Atlantic airlines – as part of a collaboration with IT provider SITA, is introducing an Augmented Reality (AR) app for the airline’s cabin crew to familiarize themselves with a new aircraft. Using an iOS app, cabin crew can use augmented reality to walkthrough and acquaint themselves with the layout... 5 September 2018
Rockwell Collins is providing Coptersafety, a supplier of commercial rotary wing training, with three turnkey integrated Level D helicopter, dome-based complete visual systems including multiple EP-8100® image generators; 4K ultra-high resolution; liquid-crystal-over silicon (LCoS) laser-illuminated projectors; a 240 degree by 80 degree motion-compatible dome display; night-vision goggle capability; and additional... 5 September 2018
CAA International (CAAi), the training division of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), launched a two-day training course on risk-based oversight and surveillance. Risk-Based Oversight, or Performance-Based Regulation as it is commonly known in the UK, is an oversight system that compliments compliance-based auditing. It lets regulators identify and... 4 September 2018
AeroStar Training Services received lease financing from Simulator Equipment Financing (SEF) to install a Boeing B737 NG full-flight simulator (FFS) at AeroStar’s Kissimmee Training Center. This is the second FFS leased through SEF financing this year; the first was an A320 that received FAA level D certification on March 15,... 4 September 2018
Entrol's A18 simulator was certified as FNPT II MCC at the Heli Protection Europe (HPE) training center in Rieti RI, Italy. Entrol says this is the first FNPT II MCC simulator based on a Piaggio Avanti II (often used for transport, FLIR, SAR and military purposes) that is installed... 4 September 2018
International Aviation College (IAC) and Avion Group signed an agreement to establish a multiple simulator bay Flight Simulator Center in Thailand at the Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS). IAC offers a variety of aviation courses, from pilot training to aviation management and aircraft maintenance training in the north eastern... 4 September 2018