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Higher order learning technologies and content, including human factors topics are among the advancements in community maintenance training programs, reports Group Editor Marty Kauchak. New personnel in community maintenance programs are learning and refreshing their skill sets with cutting edge technology. At the same time, human factors and other... 31 August 2013
Airlines and training centres seeking to acquire their own full-flight simulator have at least 10 Level D manufacturers to choose from. Rick Adams looks at the players and the process. “It’s a more-for-less market,” admits Dean Fisher, CAE’s global leader for simulation technology sales. CAE has dominated openly competitive sales... 31 August 2013
With new projection technologies entering the entertainment, scientific and home theater markets, Chuck Weirauch spoke with leaders in the civil aviation simulation industry to gain their perspective on how, when, and if such technologies might become available in this market in the near future. 4K Projectors The goal of eye-limiting... 31 August 2013
Indonesia is one of the world’s fastest growing aviation markets, and its training industry is advancing in parallel. Chris Long reports from this developing country. In recent years the specialists in the commercial aviation training world have focussed successively on the regions where the major aircraft orders have been placed. 31 August 2013
The civil aviation industry has been busy these past few years setting a number of historical records, including aircraft orders, personnel demand and most importantly – safety. 2012 represented the safest year ever recorded, and with the introduction of an entirely new generation of efficient aircraft, and the continual gravitational... 31 August 2013
The Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) returns to a favoured conference venue, Bangkok, this year. From September 17-18, the show will explore aviation flight training and simulation from the Asia Pacific region. All eyes are turned to Asia to understand and calibrate the scale of growth in aviation;... 31 August 2013
The 16th World Aviation Training Conference & Tradeshow (WATS) flew into the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort, in Orlando, Florida, April 16-18. With 1,000 attendees hailing from 49 countries and 94 airlines, WATS demonstrated again that it is the largest gathering of aviation training professionals. The four conference tracks - pilot... 31 August 2013
Chris Long reports on a new apprenticeship scheme recently launched in the UK. One of the major challenges for many countries is the funding of the expensive training for aviation professionals, in particular for those wishing to start pilot training. The high cost has put it out of the reach... 31 August 2013
For most people in the aviation training industry, the key benchmarks and predictions come from the major global players of ICAO, IATA and, of course, the aircraft manufacturers. Both Airbus and Boeing apply considerable resources to research and publish comprehensive forecasts of future demand, and for those in the industry... 31 August 2013
Held in Bangkok, Thailand, the 2013 Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) explored aviation flight training and simulation from the Asia Pacific region. Chris Long reports. The recent boost to aircraft orders at the 15th Aviation Expo China 2013 in Beijing showed that, if any proof were needed, the continuing... 30 August 2013
Chuck Weirauch provides an update on the use of mobile and paperless training. With the world's two largest airliner manufacturers taking major steps to foster the implementation of iPads as Electronic Flight Bags (EFBs) into the cockpits of their aircraft, it's becoming clear that more air carriers will adopt this... 30 August 2013
The military use of unmanned aerial systems as tools for surveillance and weapons delivery is well known. Can these systems find a place in the civil world? Robert W. Moorman investigates. Washington D.C is to politics what Las Vegas is to gambling. And there is always some controversy swirling around... 30 August 2013
As Delta and American Airlines receive new models of aircraft into their fleets, the two air carriers are using technology-enabled training strategies to prepare their pilots for the transition, Group Editor Marty Kauchak reports. Delta has an ambitious plan to introduce 88 “new” aircraft – Boeing 717s it purchased from... 30 August 2013
Peter Moxham, FRAeS, explains recent developments within EASA. Love it or hate it, EASA has entered a new era. 2013 has seen EASA FCL Regulations come into force in all member states together with Iceland, Norway and Switzerland, and EASA Flight Operations have been finalised for introduction over the next... 30 August 2013
John Bent, FRAeS, Chairman Training Practices Workstream, International Pilot Training Consortium (IPTC), states that the variability in quality and relevance in pilot training around the world has become an exacerbating factor requiring urgent collaborative action if reduced safety margins are to be avoided. Two significant airline challenges are being debated... 30 August 2013
Chris Long visits Lufthansa Flight Training and reports on its well-established MPL programme for ab initio training. Few issues in pilot training have generated as much discussion in recent years as the introduction of the Multi-Crew Pilot Licence (MPL). Some have ignored it, and sought to improve training merely by... 30 August 2013
JVC Professional Products Company has announced the DLA-VS2200ZG D-ILA projector. Engineered specifically for simulation environments, planetariums, and other visualization applications, the latest Visualization Series model offers 1920x1080 native resolution, and its next-generation optical engine delivers a minimum of 18,000:1 native contrast ratio. Build around an optical engine with three D-ILA... 30 August 2013
CAE has signed a contract for eight full flight simulators (FFSs), flight training devices and a 15-year maintenance and service agreement with an undisclosed customer. This is worth approximately C$210 million and brings the total number of FFS sales CAE has announced to date in fiscal year 2014 to 23. 30 August 2013
Alsim can now count a new operator amongst its clients, Norway's University of Tromso School of Aviation (UTSA), located in the north of Norway, has chosen the ALX to contribute to their flight school's excellence. 30 August 2013
Mechtronix has delivered and commissioned its fixed-base Airbus A320 FFT X™ - MPL for ST Aerospace Academy (STAA), the commercial pilot training arm of ST Aerospace, in support of the academy's Multi-crew pilot license (MPL) training. The concept of a device purely to support MPL Phase II training outcomes was... 30 August 2013