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7 April 2025 Rick Adams Tanja Schmidt began her role with the International Air Transport Association in September 2024, inheriting a department which manages hundreds of training courses across dozens of airline-related categories. She sat down with Rick Adams to discuss how the role is going and what training changes are coming.
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Airbus UpNext has started testing new, on ground and in-flight, pilot assistance technologies on an A350-1000 test aircraft. 13 January 2023
The Federal Aviation Administration and the Korea Office of Civil Aviation agreed to partner on future Advanced Air Mobility aircraft development and operations. 12 January 2023
The XR Association has worked closely with Representative Lisa Blunt Rochester’s staff to draft H.R. 9674: Immersive Technology for the American Workforce Act of 2022, which was introduced to the House of Representatives in December. 12 January 2023
After delayed convening of the 118th US House of Representatives, the Republican majority is busy electing chairpersons to committees. 12 January 2023
As expected, Representative Mike Rogers (Alabama) has been named Chairman of the US House Armed Services Committee. While focused on disparate matters ranging from service member pay and benefits to the development of hypersonic and other next-generation aircraft, the congressman has been on record to call attention to training readiness and technology enablers of increasing importance to military training enterprises. 12 January 2023
4 Air Investments, a European training aircraft lessor, is back in business after freezing its operations due to the pandemic. 12 January 2023
MYAirline has selected Comply365, an aviation software company, for the implementation of its digital content management. 12 January 2023
Simaero and Air France have signed a long-term exclusive partnership whereby Simaero will sell unused training slots on the 10 Air France simulators located near Paris, France, Charles de Gaulle Airport, to third-party clients, for both dry leasing use and for ATO training. 11 January 2023
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) released an update to its industry-wide Safety 1st General Aviation Misfueling Prevention Program — a free, online training resource for pilots, line service professionals, and other aircraft refueling stakeholders. 11 January 2023
A new version of TrianGraphics’ Terrain Database Generation System is ready to download. Some of the new features to Trian3DBuilder 7.7 include Lua Script Editor, glTF and 3DTiles exporter, batch terrain generation, and more. 11 January 2023
Icelandair has selected VRpilot to deliver immersive procedure training tools for flight crew training on the Boeing 737 MAX. 10 January 2023
AIR reached this milestone five months after completing successful hover flight testing, keeping it on track to deliver the first batch of its inaugural eVTOL, AIR ONE, for personal ownership in late 2024. 10 January 2023
Paragon Flight Training, based at Page Field in Fort Myers, Florida, has completed its goal of purchasing 10 new Piper P100i aircraft in 2022, taking possession of the final four aircraft. 10 January 2023
ATPG Chair Andy Mitchell sat down with EATS 2022 Conference Chair Jacques Drappier to discuss what went on at our exclusive Heads of Training discussion in Berlin. The duo go through instructor standardisation, sustainability and pilot well being. 9 January 2023
ALSIM has sold an ALX to WCC Aeronautical and Technological College based in the Philippines. 6 January 2023
CPaT Global has been awarded a new contract with low-cost Kenya Airline, Jambojet, which is based out of Nairobi, Kenya. 6 January 2023
Aviomar has expanded its fleet by purchasing an additional Diamond DA42 aircraft in response to the growing demand for flight training. 6 January 2023
Supernal has entered into a collaboration with Microsoft to advance autonomy, digital operations and cloud integration technologies for the aviation industry by running Advanced Air Mobility (AAM) on the Microsoft cloud platform. 6 January 2023
CPaT Global has been awarded a new contract with American Jet S.A, which is based out of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 6 January 2023
MINT Software Systems has released version 14.4 of MINT TMS, adding general performance improvements and new features like a new entity, more restrictions to the unqualified assigning process, a myriad of improvements to event handlers and actions, and more. 6 January 2023