6 January 2025 As we enter 2025, we reflect on how the airline training community has continued to strengthen its commitment to operational safety and excellence despite supply chain challenges and ongoing safety considerations.
Abandon hope, aspiring pilots? Or a sooner-than-predicted emergence from this trough? Group Editor Marty Kauchak provides reactions from four ATO executives to a major pilot association’s surprise declaration. 18 January 2021
Naveed Kapadia, a former TUI Aviation Crew Training and Standards Commercial Manager, has launched his own Aviation Business and Management consultancy, INQUISITIF. 18 January 2021
Coptersafety started the installation of its next AW169 Level D Full-Flight simulator and it is estimated to be ready for training at the beginning of 2021. 15 January 2021
Micro Nav has been shortlisted for the 2020 ATM Awards in the category of Enabling Technology, which recognises a significant contribution to enhance capacity and/or increase safety. 13 January 2021
Pacific Simulators and the International Aviation Academy of New Zealand have started 2021 in a positive way by signing an agreement on a new Flight Training Device. 11 January 2021
Frontier Airlines has signed a service agreement with MINT Software Systems to implement the web-based training management systems MINT TMS. 11 January 2021
MINT Software Systems signed a service agreement with Global Crossing Airlines, a new entrant airline, to deliver their digital training management software MINT TMS. 8 January 2021
CPaT Global’s current President, Brian Bergeron, will assume the role of CPaT’s Executive Chairman of the Board of Managers, and Kent Morrison will assume the role of CPaT President. 8 January 2021
Hillsboro Aero Academy, based in the U.S., has received approval from the Civil Aviation Authority of Vietnam to conduct professional airplane pilot training in accordance with CAAV regulations. 6 January 2021
Helicentre Aviation Academy has opened a two-week application window for prospective commercial helicopter pilots to apply for a £10,000 scholarship to part-fund their place on the 2021 Integrated CPL(H) course. 6 January 2021
MINT Software Systems has signed a service agreement with new start-up airline Breeze Airways for the implementation of their web-based training management system MINT TMS. 5 January 2021
The Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the United Kingdom Civil Aviation Authority have signed two collaborative agreements further strengthening their bilateral partnership. 5 January 2021
The astonishing events recounted in the incident involving a post-major servicing ferry flight of an Air Astana Embraer 190 aircraft are worthy of huge admiration. The follow up by Air Astana after the close call is equally impressive. Chris Long reports. 5 January 2021
An increasing amount of work is being done in India in the fields of augmented reality/virtual reality technologies and visual databases for training and other applications. Atul Chandra reports. 4 January 2021
The final of six Airways TotalControl tower simulator sites for Avinor Air Navigation Services in Norway has gone live, concluding a complex eight-month project with an innovative approach to delivery. 4 January 2021
Web Manuals, an aviation document digitization solutions company, is launching a student offer with reduced rates for all Approved Training Organizations. 23 December 2020