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Blackshape and Transavia Airlines have signed an exclusive teaming relationship to enhance initial and recurrent training of Transavia pilots. Transavia started its own initial pilot training program last year. The program also leverages an existing partnership with Zelf Vliegen, an ATO in Lelystad, Netherlands. They will use the Blackshape...   16 March 2020
Chris Long reports from ICAO’s fifth symposium, held in Qatar. The venue for the 2018 ICAO Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium was Doha, Qatar. The event, sponsored in fine style by Qatar Aeronautical College, gathered some 1,000 delegates with a truly global representation for the three day...   16 March 2020
Editorial Comment For the last several Editorial Comments, the issue of “Aviation Professionalism” has been repeatedly explored, and indeed, given the current high interest in the subject, the conference theme of the upcoming 22nd annual WATS event is “Identifying and Developing Professionalism in the Global Aviation Workforce.” The term...   16 March 2020
The Connecticut Air National Guard's 103rd Airlift Wing displayed its ability to quickly deploy in the event of a short-notice wartime tasking during a large-scale readiness exercise March 2-5, 2020. The scenario involved airmen from around the base and tasked members from the 103rd Maintenance Group to generate a...   16 March 2020
ICAO, in cooperation with Airports Council International (ACI), the International Air Transport Association (IATA), and other international organizations based near its Headquarters, hosted a special joint event in celebration of International Women’s Day (IWD). ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu (center) poses with VIP speakers and ICAO Council Representatives...   16 March 2020
SKY4u has chosen the German Flight School ARDEX to deliver the Advanced Upset Prevention and Recovery Training (UPRT). The UPRT includes theoretical and practical flight training. The aim is to prepare SKY4u student pilots for situations in unusual flight conditions. Pilots should be able to safely and quickly return...   13 March 2020
Alpha Aviation Academy UAE (AAA) has ordered an A320 FTD-2 from Dutch-based MPS. They will deliver the simulator to AAA's facility at Sharjah Airport in mid-2020. The A320 FTD-2 will allow the Academy to provide additional capacity for the Type Rating and MPL training for pilots. This order comes...   13 March 2020
Inzpire Limited’s Collective Training Division has recently delivered the final Exercise IRON DRAGON under the Distributed Synthetic Air and Land Training (DSALT) programme. Since 2017, Inzpire’s synthetic training experts have delivered three iterations of the week-long IRON DRAGON exercise, providing divisional level training at the Air Battlespace Training Centre...   13 March 2020
Eye care professionals from Latin America came to Fort Worth, Texas, for two weeks of training on board Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital, a fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on an MD-10 aircraft, which is currently at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport. This marks Orbis’ first training program taking...   13 March 2020
Eye care professionals from Latin America came to Fort Worth, Texas, for two weeks of training on board Orbis International’s Flying Eye Hospital, a fully accredited ophthalmic teaching hospital on an MD-10 aircraft, which is currently at Fort Worth Meacham International Airport. This marks Orbis’ first training program taking place...   13 March 2020
ASTi has formed a strategic alliance with Forcepoint to deliver an integrated cross-domain solution (CDS) for voice communications. The integrated CDS voice solution is the first of its kind, specifically designed for training and research, development, test and evaluation (RDT&E) environments. Through the partnership, ASTi and Forcepoint will jointly...   13 March 2020
VA Airline Training (VA) will award 24 bursaries to celebrate 24 months of EASA MCC Airline Pilot Standards (APS MCC) training in Europe. The 24 £500 bursaries will enable 24 new APS MCC trainees to embark upon the final ab initio leg of their airline pilot training journey at...   12 March 2020