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Taiwanese international airline EVA Air can boast of a culture that embraces continuous improvement and investment in training. Chris Long finds out more. 1 December 2019
Twenty-four-hour emergency medical service to people spread over an area of 7.69 million square kilometres – that’s a very big waiting room! Keith Morgan reports on the new RFDS training facility in Dubbo.
An Australian icon, the Royal Flying Doctor Service (RFDS) first flew in 1928. The vision of founder (the Reverend) John Flynn was to create a “mantle of safety” for those in remote areas of outback Australia. Leased from Qantas for two shillings a mile, a de Havilland biplane made 50 flights and treated 225 people in that first year of RFDS operation.
The not-for-profit RFDS today is one of the largest and most comprehensive aeromedical organisations in the world. In the 2018-19 financial year, RFDS assisted 370,706 people through clinics, telehealth, aeromedical and non-emergency road transport. It conducted 21,323 nurses, GP and dental clinics and flew 27,286,414 million kilometres in a fleet of 77 aircraft.
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Global cargo charter airline AeroTransCargo (ATC) will put 60 pilots through Caerdav’s 747 simulator training centre at Cardiff Airport. ATC will use Caerdav’s EASA-approved Boeing 747-400 aircraft simulators to provide its pilots with half-yearly recurrent training on the Queen of the Skies, which will include emergency procedures and technical... 29 November 2019
Nigeria has become the 22nd state to ratify the Montreal Protocol 2014 (MP14) ahead of its entry into force on January 1 2020. MP14, the Protocol to Amend the Convention on Offences and Certain Other Acts Committed on Board Aircraft, is a global treaty that strengthens the powers of... 29 November 2019
Craig P. Kennedy takes a look at disability training programs.
29 November 2019
The regional investment fund Fonds Pays de la Loire Croissance et Océan Participations has invested €2.1 million in Alsim. The money, the French simulation specialists said, allowed them to pursue both its future product development and its, mostly international, commercial development. "(It) will enable the company to focus on... 29 November 2019
Some 25 students from Saudi Arabia have graduated from an air traffic control (ATC) training programme provided by Airways International Ltd, following two years of study in New Zealand. Their graduation on Nov 29 marked the completion of a scholarship provided by the Ministry of Education and the General... 28 November 2019
With the blessing of the FAA and other regulators, the new era of commercial drone deliveries has launched. Robert W. Moorman investigates the training of professional drone operators. 28 November 2019
BAA Training Spain has purchased an Alsim AL250 simulator. The Alsim AL250 is a generic and compact simulator for single & multi engine piston (SEP/MEP reconfigurable) PPL, CPL & IR training. "With over 300 student-pilots in Ab Initio school, a training device, as the Alsim AL250, simulating both single... 28 November 2019
The pilot and maintenance tech shortages come down mostly to money – pay, bonuses, benefits, and especially the cost of initial training. Group Editor Marty Kauchak highlights some expanding financial mechanisms for future right-seaters. 28 November 2019
FlightLogger has entered the mountains of Andorra by signing up its first customer in the principality, the Andorra Aviation Academy. The academy shares ground facilities with the Universitat d’Andorra in Sant Julià de Lòria. Although the current ground school facilities are in Andorra, the academy has multiple agreements with... 28 November 2019
QuantaDyn has become a key supplier for the UK MOD contract entitled Joint Fires Synthetic Training (JFST), which will deliver multiple networked static and mobile training systems set to train mounted and dismounted Joint Fires teams and Joint Fires Cells. Image courtesy of QuantaDyn The systems will be supplied... 28 November 2019
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