The aviation industry continues to exhibit positive signs of post-pandemic growth as the northern summer schedule gets underway.

Watch Captain Colin Rydon, FRAeS, and Captain Hugues Carpentier sit down with Captain Jacques Drappier to discuss selection and Ab Initio. The duo warn about the pilot shortage that is coming like a tidal wave in Europe next year and push for regulators to lead on improving sustainability in the industry.

Marco Santana is the Founder of Orlando Tech News and former business reporter for the Orlando Sentinel. Halldale invited him to WATS to offer his impressions as a first-time attendee of the world’s largest civil aviation training event.

The US Air Force’s Agility Prime program is deliberately and cautiously advancing to inform the Service’s decisions on acquisition decisions for eVTOL aircraft. As these platforms are evaluated, important early training lessons-learned are emerging for the pilots who will operate this new generation of aircraft.

AerAware is demonstrating its next-generation Enhanced Flight Vision System (EFVS) upgrade for transport category aircraft designed to enable pilots to see clearly through common visibility obstructions like fog, rain, snow, sand and smog. 

X2O Media, leading global provider of hybrid learning and collaboration solutions, introduced the advanced X2O OneRoom solution designed to support hybrid training at WATS 2023.

The 25th edition of the World Aviation Training Summit (WATS), the world’s largest aviation training event, designed by and for aviation professionals, is underway in Florida.

Equipment manufacturers, eLearning providers, flight training organisations, maintenance and cabin crew suppliers, and selection providers are showcasing their latest products and services to a dedicated airline simulation and training audience.

Halldale Group has been hosting Heads of Training meetings as part of its global events portfolio for many years and is delighted to be working in partnership with ALTA to offer a Latin America and Caribbean Training Leaders Meeting for the first time this year.

Watch Sarah Barry, an experienced airline pilot, Senior Lecturer and Director of Education in the School of Aviation and Security at Buckinghamshire New University, High Wycombe, UK, talk with Captain Jacques Drappier about the issues that are continuing to prevent a surge in the number of women pilots.