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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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The ITPS has acquired a high-fidelity engineering simulator based on the Entrol H39. 24 November 2021
Adacel Technologies Limited has signed a new five-year contract worth approximately US$4.5 million
with NAV Portugal 24 November 2021
Have you booked your booth space for WATS 2022 yet? Don't delay, exhibitor space at the world's largest aviation training conference is going fast as the industry welcomes the return to live events 23 November 2021
AFM.aero, a pilot training industry market intelligence platform and advisory firm, together with Emirates Flight Training Academy, hosted over 50 leaders of the pilot training industry. 23 November 2021
Southwest Airlines awarded a total of $110,000 to 17 students through the Southwest Airlines Scholarship Program. 23 November 2021
One feature of the future of aviation training was clear to see at the recent EATS, the presence of many delegates, clutching hand-held controls, with their faces obscured by VR google-facemasks. Conor Keeling, an A330 Captain for a major European airline, flying for 33 years and 20,000 hours since 1981, discusses his observations of EATS 2021. 22 November 2021
New Zealand FTD manufacturer Pacific Simulators has delivered another flight simulator into the USA. 22 November 2021
Brunner joined forces with Lufthansa Aviation Training from Zürich and presented the new NovaSim MR | DA42 during the 19th European Airline Training Symposium (EATS 2021) in Berlin. 22 November 2021
Delta Air Lines is sponsoring the nonprofit FourBlock for the 2021-2022 academic year, a partnership that will help military veterans transition to civilian careers with the airline. 19 November 2021
Brunner has been awarded a contract to provide its NovaSim Virtual Reality Full Motion Simulator to its next US customer: PJ Helicopters in Red Bluff, California. 18 November 2021
Airbus has signed a trilateral agreement with Thales and Diehl Aerospace for the joint development of the flight control computers of CityAirbus NextGen. 18 November 2021
kayfly, a German flight school, signed a purchase agreement for Bell Textron’s Bell 505. 17 November 2021
Thrust Flight Group, a professional flight academy based at Addison Airport, is opening another location at North Texas Regional Airport in Denison, Texas. 17 November 2021
Cerys, aged 8 from Norfolk, and Lara, aged 15 from Surrey, have been crowned the winners of easyJet’s ‘Aircraft of the Future’ competition following a nationwide contest. 17 November 2021
CPaT Global has released new feature enhancements to CPaT Invent, its dynamic content-design software platform. 17 November 2021
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s new research shows the Covid-19 pandemic had an alarming impact on pilot proficiency, specifically on a pilot’s skill at landing. 16 November 2021
Latvian airline airBaltic’s entire active staff, including company’s flying personnel, has been vaccinated against Covid-19. 16 November 2021
Fly 7 Training located in Lausanne, Switzerland, has received FNPTII MCC / FTD2 approval by the FOCA for their Frasca-built Pilatus PC-12 NGX FSTD, which was delivered earlier this year. 16 November 2021
VRM Switzerland is presenting its latest development, the Airbus H125 training device, at European Rotors in Cologne, Germany, from 16-18 November. 16 November 2021
Sometimes we don’t truly appreciate something until we don’t have it anymore. With the return of EATS and WATS as live, in-person events this year, many of us re-realised how valuable it is to get together as a training and simulation community. 16 November 2021