Forget that most major eVTOL OEMs are not eyeing their first round of operational flights until about 2025. An all-hands effort of government and industry stakeholders is gaining momentum to establish the training organizations that will prepare pilots and maintainers to begin this next chapter of aerospace industry history.   
 

Australian-owned operational training services provider, Milskil, has joined CAE-led Team AUStringer to respond to the AIR 5428 Phase 3 program for the Royal Australian Air Force.

Simaero is strengthening its presence in the A350 pilot training segment by purchasing a new CAE 7000XR A350-900 Full Flight Simulator with the latest Airbus training standards.

CAE has signed a 10-year agreement to equip Frontier Airlines with CAE’s next generation of flight operations solutions. Implementation will be scheduled to begin later this year for CAE’s cloud-based Operations Control, Crew Management and Flight Management solutions.

The German aviation company Blissair has opened a new flight simulation centre in the city of Bocholt near the Dutch border. 

CAE is enhancing its business aviation training offering with the deployment of a new Global 6500 full-flight simulator in May 2023 at the Emirates-CAE Flight Training Al Garhoud centre.

Leonardo is conceptualizing training for 6^th-generation fighter aircraft by reproducing a possible cockpit with its “Smart Chair” virtual / augmented reality device at its Battle Lab in Turin, Italy.

CAE has continued to refine its approach to building flight simulators, aiming not only for higher fidelity, but for a much-shortened development period. 

CAE is investing in its Canadian pilot training network to meet the increased demand for pilots with the upcoming deployment of a B777 full-flight simulator (FFS) at its Toronto training centre. The move follows the installation and start of customer training on new B737 MAX and B787 FFSs at the expanded Toronto site.

Founder and chief executive officer of C² Technologies Inc, Dolly Oberoi, is the winner of the 2022 National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA) Kathleen P. Sridhar Small Business Executive of the Year Award.