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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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Middle East pilot training organisation P7 Aviation is expanding its global training infrastructure with a four-bay simulator training center development, adding to its existing three-bay simulator training center in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. 18 August 2021
Alsim has sold an AL250 to GoldWings Flight Academy based in Warsaw and Krakow, Poland, where it will be installed this autumn. 18 August 2021
The latest Ryanair Mentored Programme Wings ceremony consisted entirely of VA Airline Training cadet pilots. 18 August 2021
Halldale President and CEO Andy Smith was a guest on the VR/AR Bytes Podcast, a weekly show featuring the movers and shakers from the Central Florida Chapter of the Global Association for VR and AR. 18 August 2021
Wizz Air is ramping up pilot recruitment across its network, with plans to hire 4,600 new pilots by 2030. 17 August 2021
L3Harris Airline Academy is consolidating its Integrated Airline Transport Pilot Licence offering for future pilots. 17 August 2021
David Edwards has been appointed as the Chief Executive of the Royal Aeronautical Society in place of Sir Brian Burridge who is stepping down. 16 August 2021
Winners of the Vertical Flight Society’s 38th Annual Student Design Competition, entitled “2025 Unmanned Vertical Lift for Medical Equipment Distribution” have been revealed. 16 August 2021
Staff shortages, vaccinations, new training technologies, and unruly passengers were all part of the discussion at the WATS 2021 Cabin Crew Training stream. Amanda Towner took extensive notes. 16 August 2021
Lufthansa Aviation Training has become the launch customer for the new L3Harris Technologies Boeing 787 Flight Training Device, which along with an additional order for a Boeing 787 Full Flight Simulator, will provide a training solution in their Frankfurt, Germany, pilot training facility. 12 August 2021
Vertical Flight Society challenges university students to design electric air taxis that accommodate passengers with reduced mobility. 12 August 2021
Bristol Groundschool has selected two winners of the 2021 British Woman Pilots’ Association Scholarship. 12 August 2021
Pan Am Flight Academy has acquired a Boeing 757-200 Full Flight Simulator. This Level D simulator, along with a Level 5 Flight Training Device, are currently being relocated from Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, to the Pan Am Headquarters in Miami, Florida, and are scheduled to be available for training by November 1, 2021. 11 August 2021
Skyborne Airline Academy Vero Beach has been chosen by European ATO Hub’air to train up to 40 pilots a year at its base in Florida. 11 August 2021
CAE is expanding its maintenance training capabilities with the addition of GlobalJet Services, a provider of aviation maintenance training for both the business and helicopter segments. 10 August 2021
CPaT Global has partnered with McCarthy Capital to accelerate its growth. Additionally, CPaT has been awarded an expanded contract by Avelo Airlines. 10 August 2021
Cat3C, part of the Aeros Group, has installed a ready for training 737 cockpit instrument/avionics trainer at its Gloucester Airport training base. 9 August 2021
BAA Training and Transavia Airlines signed a contract in which BAA Training will open a new training centre dedicated to Transavia’s pilot training needs. 9 August 2021
The Resilient Pilot team will be hosting regular face-to-face skills refresher days for type-rated pilots to be delivered in conjunction with Resilient Pilot airline training organization partners in England. 9 August 2021
New modalities for training delivery continue to penetrate the domain of aircraft maintenance training; one form establishing some critical mass is virtual reality. 5 August 2021