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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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L3Harris Technologies is partnering with the University of Central Lancashire to launch a new degree program to combine academic study with professional pilot training. 27 July 2021
Aeros Group has acquired Cat3C Ltd, which provides ground school for Private Pilot License (PPL) and Airline Transport Pilot License training to student pilots. 27 July 2021
To fill airline maintenance technician positions, Alaska Airlines is teaming up with AAR CORP. to create a pipeline for qualified AMTs for the airline. 26 July 2021
The Women in Aviation and Aerospace Charter has joined forces with IATA to reinforce the importance of maintaining a focus on diversity and inclusion as the aviation and aerospace sectors recover. 26 July 2021
Gulf Aviation Academy has partnered with Atyaf eSolutions to offer augmented and virtual reality training solutions. 26 July 2021
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Daytona Beach, Florida, campus is upgrading nine of its Frasca-built Flight Training Devices to match its recently refreshed Cessna 172 fleet and has purchased three Frasca Reconfigurable Training Devices to support flight training. 26 July 2021
Flying an aircraft is a visual task, with up to 90% of the necessary information gathered through the pilot's eyes, explains Captain Matt Gray in this Guest Commentary. 26 July 2021
Collins Aerospace has selected AdaCore’s QGen code generator for Simulink/Stateflow models and TQL-1 Enterprise Qualification Package to advance the development of their FAA-certifiable PerigonTM computer. 22 July 2021
Alsim made its first sale in Russia to S7 Aero, which will use an Alsim AL172 for private pilots trainings at S7 Training. 21 July 2021
Zoe Cameron, an inspirational airline pilot with Virgin Atlantic and author of children’s book Ada and Emily Take to the Skies!, has joined the Attagirls Molly Rose Pilot Scholarship Board of Trustees and will be the new ambassador. 21 July 2021
Head-mounted visual systems, digital twins, and other “X-reality” concepts are not new – the aviation training community has been developing such innovations for decades. World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) Chair and CAT/MS&T Editor Rick Adams presented a primer on the evolution of simulation training for the online VR AR Global Summit 2021. 20 July 2021
Avsoft has created an Airbus A321neo aircraft systems online pilot course. 20 July 2021
Heli Austria Flight Academy will operate two virtual reality training devices from VRM Switzerland. 19 July 2021
The Aeros Group has entered into new training partnerships with Hields Aviation and Bristol & Wessex Aeroplane Club. 19 July 2021
CAE will be investing C$1 billion over the next five years in innovation to fund Project Resilience, which will develop the technologies of tomorrow. 19 July 2021
With the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) AirVenture 2021 about to takeoff in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, a battle continues to rage between owners of limited-category aircraft and the FAA. Robert W. Moorman explains. 19 July 2021
CPaT Global has been awarded a new contract by Emerald Airlines for initial and recurrent training for the ATR-600. 16 July 2021
Liberty University has purchased its first Alsim simulator, an Alsim ALX. 15 July 2021
airBaltic Training has accepted its ninth Diamond Aircraft training aircraft for airBaltic Pilot Academy. 14 July 2021
Women in Aviation International congratulates 48 members who have been selected as Spring 2021 scholarship recipients thanks to a generous $250,000 grant from the Conrad N. Hilton Foundation, as well as a $6,000 WAI scholarship. 14 July 2021