Avenger Flight Group has launched Poland’s first commercial aviation training center in a joint venture with Enter Air.

CAE has launched Airside, a new digital platform and online community for pilots. Airside provides career and training tools to support pilots during the Covid-19 pandemic, and throughout their professional career.

L3Harris Technologies will lead a team to help transform the U.S. Air Force’s flight simulator training used to help develop highly skilled air crews.

CAE has launched a new financing initiative for aspiring pilots in collaboration with financial institutions around the world.

Cebu Pacific Air added pilot training for ATR 72-600 to an exclusive 15-year training agreement with its joint venture CAE Clark – Philippine Academy for Aviation Training.

Tens of thousands of sorties are flown in Israeli Air Force simulators. Arie Egozi was granted special access to the training airbase, including a conversation with BGen Amnon Ein-Dar, Head of the Training and Doctrine Division.

Early this year, the canopy of an Israeli Air Force (IAF) F15 flew off when the aircraft was at 30,000 feet. The pilot and weapon systems operator managed to bring the damaged aircraft to a safe landing in a base in southern Israel. This after being exposed to extreme temperatures.

LtCol ‘R’, commander of the IAF’s connected simulators squadron, remarked: “They knew exactly what to do because they have been trained again and again in our advanced simulators.”

During a rare visit to the IAF’s connected simulators facility in the Hazor airbase (also known as Hatzor), I was able to briefly observe the uniqueness of this special squadron that has a major role in making IAF combat pilots among the best in the world.

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