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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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CAE is enhancing its business aviation training offering with the deployment of a new Global 6500 full-flight simulator in May 2023 at the Emirates-CAE Flight Training Al Garhoud centre. 9 December 2022
AeroGuard Flight Training Center has signed a long-term agreement with Cathay Pacific as part of the airline's plans to train several hundred new pilots per year in Phoenix, Arizona. 9 December 2022
Southwest Airlines offers two scholarships – the Herbert D. Kelleher and Rollin W. King Scholarship, which is available to dependents of Southwest Employees, and the Southwest Airlines Scholarship, which is a community-centric scholarship available to students across the country. 8 December 2022
Joby Aviation formed a partnership with Aviation High School in New York City to prepare the next generation of aircraft maintenance technicians and aerospace leaders for career opportunities created by the electric age of flight. 8 December 2022
On the heels of a record-setting year of hiring that brought 4,300 new flight attendants on board with Delta since the fall of 2021, Delta will keep the momentum going with the addition of between 4,000 and 6,000 more in 2023. 8 December 2022
Perth Airport operator ACS Aviation celebrated the success of graduates and the many achievements of staff and members at the 2022 Awards Dinner held at the Mercure Hotel in Perth city centre. 7 December 2022
The ATPG and Halldale Group have jointly released a new, comprehensive white paper on the current state of data management in global recurrent pilot training. Click through to get your copy. 7 December 2022
Airways International Ltd has signed a contract with the Civil Aviation Academy of Nepal to deliver a TotalControl tower and surveillance simulation solution for use by Nepalese air traffic controllers. 6 December 2022
CAE’s many expanding competencies now include its leadership position in the evolving eVTOL training market. Chris Courtney, Director of Advanced Air Mobility for Civil Aviation at the company, said CAE has five training partnerships with eVTOL OEMs to include Joby, Jaunt, Vertical Aerospace, Volocopter and Beta. 6 December 2022
THK Flight Academy, based in Turkey, has renewed its confidence in ALSIM by acquiring an ALX simulator. 6 December 2022
SIMAERO successfully completed the relocation of a Boeing 757/767 Full Flight Simulator from Shanghai to the HENAN Civil Aviation Development & Investment Aviation Training Center in Zhengzhou, despite the various local restrictions and challenges of the Covid pandemic. 5 December 2022
Sling Pilot Academy has entered into an Elite Partnership with SkyWest Airlines, in which eligible Sling Pilot Academy students have direct access to SkyWest’s Pilot Pathway Program and qualify for elite access to partnership benefits. 5 December 2022
ARC Aerosystems has completed its full transition tests for the ARC C150 design. Having previously completed hover test and full transition of their half scale prototype, this new test marks the full transition test of their full-scale prototype for the eVTOL aircraft. 5 December 2022
Adacel Technologies Limited and Estonian Air Navigation Services have received an aeronautical equipment certificate for the REVAL ATC virtual tower located at Kuressaare airport in Estonia. 5 December 2022
Following a call for tender, the European Union Aviation Safety Agency has awarded a new contract for a research project to a consortium formed by CAA International, APAVE Aeroservices and CASRA. 5 December 2022
VRM Switzerland has rebranded to Loft Dynamics and raised $20M in financing to help expand into the U.S. market. 5 December 2022
Airways International Ltd has signed a contract with the Civil Aviation Academy (CAA) of Nepal to deliver a TotalControl tower and surveillance simulation solution for use by Nepalese air traffic controllers. 5 December 2022
Conference programmes are now being developed for three live conference streams at WATS 2023. Make sure you get your submission in soon. 5 December 2022
entrol is manufacturing a H39 FNPT II MCC based on the AW139 together with Ussat Inzhener, an engineering company based in Turkmenistan. 23 November 2022
Adacel Technologies’ new business expansion in Tallinn, Estonia, is the result of the virtual ATC tower acquisition, which was completed in May 2022 and launched as REVAL at the 2022 World ATM Congress in June. 23 November 2022