The European Union Aviation Safety Agency will not automatically adopt the US Federal Aviation Administration’s conditional approval for re-certifying the controversial Boeing 737 MAX aircraft.

If Day One was the appetizer of the Global Airline Training & Simulation – Virtual conference, Day Two was meat and potatoes.

ASTi’s H135 full-flight simulator using a Telestra sound system is now Level D-certified by the Civil Aviation Authority Norway.

FTD.aero has completed another simulator certification to EASA FNPT II/MCC APS level FSTD.

L3Harris Technologies has been selected by BAA Training to supply eight new flight training devices to further support BAA Training’s expansion program.

Pilot Flight Academy in Norway is opening a new training site in Denton, Texas, in partnership with US Aviation Academy.

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

The International Test Pilots School has been awarded a contract to train Royal Canadian Air Force test pilots and flight test engineers.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency has issued guidelines to National Competent Authorities for enabling and monitoring virtual classroom instruction and distance learning.

When the FAA releases revised guidelines for pilot training for the modified Boeing 737 MAX, insiders expect a motion-based FFS will not be required. CAT Editor-In-Chief, Rick Adams, FRAeS, reports.

The anticipated training requirements for the modified Boeing 737 MAX aircraft will not likely require hardware changes to full-flight simulators or other MAX flight training devices which have already been built. “We’ve just done a large update to all the segments,” CAE’s Nick Leontidis told CAT. “The FAA and everybody else are doing their testing; there’s some required modifications, and we have just finished an update for all our sims. So things seem to be progressing in the right direction. I’m going to assume that things are quite mature at the moment.” Leontidis, Group President, Civil Aviation Training Solutions, for the Montréal-based simulator manufacturer and training services provider, confirmed that the updates are software-only.

“They’re obviously being very, very quiet about the whole thing,” he added. CAE had a representative on the FAA working group evaluating the training changes.

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