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This year’s Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference awarded “Best Paper” honors to the teams from Clay Strategic Designs and Qneuro for their work on the use of neurotechnology to enhance and improve military training. 27 August 2020
Euramec, the European flight simulation solution provider has teamed up with Australia’s GeoSim to deliver Vulcan, an aerial firefighting simulation solution. 27 August 2020
With the snip of a ribbon, the Virtual Test and Training Center at Nellis Air Force Base, Nevada, officially moved one step closer to housing the future of joint-aerial combat training. 27 August 2020
Lars Klemmetsby, Vice President Business Development Defence, Kongsberg Digital, and Axel Törneman, CEO, Seacross Marine, explain how their combined product portfolios offer a unique solution for fast craft navigation training in challenging, GNSS-denied environments. 26 August 2020
The U.S. Marine Corps has awarded BAE Systems a contract worth approximately $19 million to develop a prototype design for a new Wargaming Center to be built at Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. 26 August 2020
Flights grounded, training centres locked down, simulator deliveries hampered. Yet the training device industry has proven remarkably resilient. CAT Editor Rick Adams, FRAeS, spoke with several company leaders about how the market is changing.
This is an industry that’s bounced back from terrorist attacks, volcano ash, and previous economic crises. Did anyone think a microscopic virus would dampen the make-it-happen spirit of people whose daily mission is to defy gravity?
The initial assumption was no flights, no pilots necessary. No training, no schools, no simulators. Possibly for a very long time.
But that’s not necessarily the case. As airlines restart operations, pilots need to be current, which may require more than the usual training if they’ve been idled for awhile.
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CAE is expanding its live online instructor-led maintenance training program, now available for Bombardier, Dassault, Gulfstream aircraft types and specific helicopter programs. 26 August 2020
The Indian Navy has inked a contract with state-owned shipbuilder Goa Shipyard Limited for a Damage Control Simulator. 26 August 2020
Before the world faces another pilot shortage, the industry needs to learn how to recruit, train and retain new pools of people. Rona Gindin reports.
When the pandemic is past, or at least under control, and air traffic climbs toward and beyond 2019 levels, a pipeline of new commercial pilots will again be needed. The industry must look beyond men to fill airline cockpit seats.
The forecasts may fluctuate as the airlines recover from the Covid-19 crisis, yet in coming decades military, commercial and private staffs will be populated with hundreds of thousands of additional pilots, and they’ll look different.
Women alone can provide a virtually unlimited supply of candidates. In each region, various sub-groups of the population can also join the ranks. In the United States, for instance, that includes African-Americans, Latinx, LGBTs and Asian-Americans, among others.
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The industry-wide proposed “standardized curriculum” concept for pilots training to fly Part 135 aircraft could become the norm with momentum growing. Robert W. Moorman explores CAE's involvement in SC. 26 August 2020
Charles River Analytics has received a MegaGrant from Epic Games to develop and maintain its Virtual Interface for Real-Time User Control during Simulated Operations software development kit for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine. 25 August 2020
Avsoft International has developed an Airbus A320 to A330 CCQ course for ground school theory aspect of the A330 Type Rating. 25 August 2020
