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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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How can maintenance training be used as a strategy for profitability? Dr. William Cox examines how airlines can make this work. 6 August 2018
It was with the development of multi-crew pilot licensing (MPL) that the change from hour-based training in ATPL to competence-based training in MPL came into effect. Mario Pierobon finds out more. 6 August 2018
While extended reality (XR) technologies – the new catch-all designation for VR, AR, MR and other such emerging “realities” – are seeing widespread commercial applications to entertainment, education and manufacturing, the aviation industry has also started to adopt them as well. Chuck Weirauch explores what is available. 6 August 2018
Bernie Baldwin catches up on some of the latest cabin technologies being developed by manufacturers and employed by training organisations. 6 August 2018
Group Editor Marty Kauchak asked four community subject matter experts to reflect on the continued evolution of flight training devices and respond to the question: Is the technology in non-motion devices sufficiently advanced to permit compelling price/performance ratios? 6 August 2018
Despite Level D requirements already being well satisfied, visual systems for civil flight simulators continue to improve incrementally, driven by new capabilities developed primarily for consumer markets. Rick Adams looks at trends in projectors and image generators. 6 August 2018
The EDM Group has acquired RP Aero Systems of Littlehampton, UK. As part of a larger organisation, operating in the same market sector, this collaboration will allow RP Aero Systems access to larger geographical markets with additional customers and greater resources. In addition, it will give RP Aero Systems access... 6 August 2018
The awareness of the potentially chronic shortage of commercial pilots has now extended to the general public as the mass media highlights the issue. Chris Long speaks to Airbus about their latest initiative. 6 August 2018
L3 Commercial Aviation has been selected to provide training for Air France cadet pilots at the company's L3 European Airline Academy in Portugal. L3 has also been chosen to supply Air France with an Airbus A350 RealitySeven full flight simulator (FFS). L3 will deliver training for approximately 30 cadet... 6 August 2018
The Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Dr. Fang Liu and the Consul General of China in Montreal, Mr. Xueming Chen have launched the new Civil Aviation Authority Senior and Middle Managers Training Course. Funded by the Government of China, under its South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund, the new course... 3 August 2018
Cadets enrolled with L3 will have the opportunity to train at Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) in Norway following an agreement between the two companies. The first groups of cadets from L3's Airline Academy will start training for the IR and MEP program at PFA in August 2018. The agreement... 1 August 2018
FlightSafety International pilots Francisco Roberto Gonzalez Calvo, David Thatcher and Darren Fleming are the first to become FlightSafety Master Aviators with the Dassault Falcon aircraft. Calvo is a Falcon 2000EX EASy pilot, while Thatcher and Fleming are Dassault Falcon 7X pilots. FlightSafety says earning Master Aviator demonstrates a pilot’s flying... 31 July 2018
Irish airline Stobart Air, a franchise partner for major airlines, collaborated with the Cork International Airport-based Atlantic Flight Training Academy (AFTA) to train and recruit new pilots this year in, what the companies say, is a first-of-its-kind program. At the end of the program students will earn a commercial flying... 31 July 2018
The Chair of the rule-making group on Evidence-based Training at EASA, Captain Phil Cullen, has announced that the Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) for EBT has been published on the EASA website. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) stated in the European Aviation Safety plan (EASp) 2014-2017 the need for... 31 July 2018
Cirrus Aviation, a flight training institution, purchased an Alsim AL172 simulator, a replica of the Cessna 172 SP Skyhawk NAVIII aircraft. The simulator features Garmin G1000 avionics and uses Alsim’s High Definition Visual System. It also meets the requirements for U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Training Devices (FTD) level... 30 July 2018
French flight school Trimaille Aero Formation (TAF) selected Alsim for the third time for its pilot training program by purchasing Alsim’s AL250 and ALX (Multi Engine Piston and Medium Jet) simulators. TAF used Alsim’s buyback campaign that lets schools replace their old devices with new ones with more updated technology. 27 July 2018
Cork Institute of Technology (CIT) launched a Bachelor of Arts in International Business with Aviation Studies program specifically aimed at trained pilots in the aviation industry. The online program, which CIT says is the first of its kind in Europe, will build on the training of experienced pilots, and will... 27 July 2018
Adacel Systems Inc., a provider of the design and production of air traffic control training systems, completed installation and site acceptance testing for an Air Traffic Control (ATC) Tower and Radar simulation system Sri Lanka’s Airport & Aviation Services Civil Aviation Training Center. Adacel’s multi-position control tower and radar... 27 July 2018
A group of 15 air traffic control students from the Kingdom of Bahrain have completed their ICAO 051 training with Airways New Zealand. The agreement with the Bahrain Ministry of Transportation and Telecommunications' Civil Aviation Affairs (MTT), SERCO IAL and Tamkeen to provide ICAO 051 air traffic control training within... 26 July 2018
Based in Seoul, the low-cost carrier, Jin Air, has made the decision to use CEFA Aviation's FAS (Flight Animation System) software for its safety department. It will allow the airline to animate the data of its 30 aircraft. "Jin Air makes safety a top priority and considers safety the... 26 July 2018