Civil Aviation
28 July 2025 CAT Guest Author Experts explore XR integration in aviation training, focusing on safety, usability, fidelity, and learning outcomes.
Search channel
Refine Search
All Civil Aviation News & Articles
CAE and Brazilian helicopter operator, Líder Aviação have announced the expansion of the joint venture training program with the purchase of a CAE 3000 Series full flight simulator (FFS) replicating the AW139 aircraft. The new FFS will be jointly developed by CAE and AgustaWestland and will be qualified to Level... 20 September 2015
CAE has signed a training equipment contract including the sale of two full flight simulators (FFS) - a Boeing 777 and a Boeing 787 - and two flight training devices to support Saudi Arabian Airlines' training needs. The B777 simulator is a CAE 7000XR Series FFS, while the B787 simulator... 20 September 2015
Frasca International, Inc. has received a contract for a Level 5 R44 helicopter flight training device (FTD) from Central Oregon Community College (COCC), in Oregon. The FTD will simulate the Robinson R44 helicopter and will feature a 3 channel cylindrical 220° visual display system with a Frasca's TruVision™ Global visual... 20 September 2015
In May 2015 CTC Aviation and Wizz Air announced the launch of their inaugural CTC WINGS airline pilot career programme, designed to take aspiring pilots with no previous flying experience directly to the role of co-pilot, flying Wizz Air A320 aircraft across Europe. CTC Aviation has now launched a further... 20 September 2015
The scale of demand for training in Asia was recognised some time ago, and some training organisations started to react early. Chris Long visits AATC in Bangkok. Back in 2009, AATC (Asian Aviation Training Centre) had just two full flight simulators (FFS) co-located at the Thai Airways training centre in... 20 September 2015
Chris Long visits Austrian company Diamond Aircraft Industries. In almost every issue of CAT Magazine there is mention of a new tool for pilot training, be it a novel form of flight training device (FTD) or some clever software. One critical element which has so far had a little less... 20 September 2015
As one would expect from the 14th iteration of a mature conference, the 2015 annual EATS event delivered a highly focused and professional treatment of the civil aviation training narrative, covering both pilot and cabin crew training. By all accounts, another record was realized - some 583 people from 72... 20 September 2015
Group editor Marty Kauchak examines the emergence of serious games-enabled learning in the civil aviation market. One of the more intriguing developments in the military learning space is the ascendancy of serious games for learning. CAT’s sister publication MS&T follows defense organizations’ use of militarized versions of games to supplement... 20 September 2015
Chuck Weirauch visited growing low-cost carrier JetBlue to find out how their expansion plans incorporate all aspects of training. With a reported record third quarter 2015 operating revenue and net income, JetBlue Airways is continuing a series of such financial successes this year. The low-cost airline is expected to increase... 20 September 2015
A key element of the US Next Generation Air Traffic System, PBN training for pilots and air traffic controllers is expanding, reports Robert W. Moorman As Performance Based Navigation (PBN) procedures increase in the US, so has training for professional pilots and air traffic controllers. Various major and regional airlines... 20 September 2015
White lamps are giving way to blue lasers as the light source for richer, full-colour simulation visual projectors, and motion cueing systems are being further refined for ever more demanding applications. Rick Adams reports on the technology evolution in front of and under the sim cab. Mention the word ‘laser’... 20 September 2015
If you are looking at the world from the perspective of the beautiful city of Budapest, Hungary, the surrounding airline world is largely influenced by Wizz Air, which is based there. Because the influence of this Low Cost Carrier is principally in Central and Eastern Europe it has not yet... 9 September 2015
The 18th annual World Aviation Training Conference & Tradeshow (WATS) took place at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, in Orlando, April 21-23. Conference Chair Chris Lehman captures some of the highlights of what is always a very intense three days. With over 1,100 attendees hailing from 50-plus countries and 110 airlines, WATS broke new delegate and airline attendance records once again. Already the world’s largest gathering of aviation... 22 July 2015
At WATS 2014 a new company, TRU Simulation +Training, was introduced to the community. About one year later, Jim Takats, TRU’s chief executive officer, recapped the quick pace of activities which have established his company as an emerging global provider of training and simulation products and services, throughout the entire learning continuum. Group... 22 July 2015
Two recent regional airline events - the Regional Airline Association's 2015 Annual Conference held in Cleveland in May and the Regional Airline Training (RATS) track at the 2015 World Aviation Training Conference and Tradeshow (WATS) held in Orlando in April - highlighted issues affecting this sector. Chuck Weirauch reports. Both the RAA and WATS/RATS events featured sessions that dealt with the mutual concerns... 22 July 2015
Chris Long looks at the unique training services offered by French company novoSpace. As Jean-Francois Clervoy, a three-time NASA Shuttle astronaut, well knows, there is still a lot of research to carry out into the effects of zero-g. For decades, part of that task has been carried out inside aircraft which... 22 July 2015
The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recently grouped all the training elements in the organisation together, and held the inaugural ICAO Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. Chris Long reports. It is always challenging to pick a suitable venue for a global conference, but Dublin can give claim... 22 July 2015
Chuck Weirauch reports from the recent Heli-Expo conference held in Orlando, Florida, USA. Safety management systems (SMS) and the coming need for helicopter operators to implement them into their safety programs and training manuals, as well as into the company culture, were a major theme at the 2015 Heli-Expo conference held March 2-5... 22 July 2015
“As long as there is a physical path that connects both domains, we can't discard a potential attack.” That’s the conclusion of Ruben Santamarta, Principal Security Consultant at IOActive, a global information security services firm based in Seattle, Washington, US and London, UK. “Avionics should be located in the aircraft control domain,... 22 July 2015
Worldwide statistics show that excursion-related business aviation accidents are up to 60 percent higher than those for commercial aircraft. Chuck Weirauch takes a look at how the industry is incorporating enhanced training to remedy these statistics. While runway excursions are a leading cause of accidents for both commercial and business aviation operations, they... 22 July 2015