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.
Diehl Aerospace has been commissioned with the development and production of optical avionics communications to complement the flight control system and the platform necessary for Volocopter to develop their own battery management system. 22 June 2022
L3Harris Technologies received Air Transport World’s Aviation Technology Achievement award during its 48th Annual Airline Industry Achievement Award Ceremony. 22 June 2022
Honda Aircraft Company and FlightSafety International have solidified a 25-year extension to their existing 15-year-old partnership that will continue the two companies’ relationship until 2047. 21 June 2022
Cirrus Aircraft delivered the first of 25 SR Series TRAC20 aircraft to United Aviate Academy. The TRAC20 is an advanced, high-performance aircraft that will be used for initial pilot training. 21 June 2022
Halldale Group Editor Marty Kauchak interviewed FlightSafety International executives Patrick Coulter and Kelly Reich about FSI’s expanding Advanced Air Mobility portfolio. 21 June 2022
Dubai Aviation Engineering Projects has selected UK-based Micro Nav Limited’s ATC tower simulator suite, BEST, to support its plans for air traffic growth at both Dubai and Al Maktoum International Airports. 20 June 2022
More than 230 students from 12 further education colleges have joined Skyborne at Gloucestershire Airport for the academy’s first Cabin Crew Futures event. 20 June 2022
Back in 2002, two French entrepreneurs Eric Renault and Jean Marc Petit established the SIMAERO in Dinard, in a region of Britany in France, by installing two Fokker full flight simulators. 16 June 2022
RotorSky has a new addition to its fleet of helicopters – an EASA qualified Flight Training Device 3 / Flight and Navigation Procedures Trainer III MCC for the H135 (EC135 T3H). 16 June 2022
Leading Edge Aviation's first students to embark on a dual UK CAA & EASA licence journey have now graduated and received their dual licences. 16 June 2022
AeroGuard Flight Training Center has created a tuition partnership in collaboration with Meritize, where pilots-in-training can qualify for merit-based financing, which can in many cases reward individual borrowers for their past academic and military experiences. 15 June 2022
Aero, a luxury charter airline based in San Francisco, California, has awarded Avsoft International a long-term contract for Embraer ERJ-145 online pilot training. 14 June 2022
A soldier with the Virginia National Guard, U.S. Army Sgt. Courtney Yerger is using her civilian expertise to save soldiers hundreds of dollars by providing a free aviation curriculum during her downtime while deployed to Kosovo. 14 June 2022
The airline industry has been more severely damaged by the pandemic than any event since WW2, and most surviving airlines have few resources to spare. 14 June 2022