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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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Wings247 ATO has awarded Avsoft International a contract for online pilot training. 13 April 2021
Pitch Technologies has released a plug-in and development software called Pitch Unreal Engine Connector, which connects the Unreal Engine with High Level Architecture and Distributed Interactive Simulation simulation interoperability standards. 13 April 2021
CAE has shown its backing for a live WATS 2021 (World Aviation Training Summit) by signing up as diamond sponsor of the world’s largest aviation training event. 12 April 2021
Mario Pierobon pulsed industry experts on the pilot demand and supply trade-off, the state of airline-funded programmes, how pilots who have lost their jobs are handling the situation, and the future of training technology for when the airline industry recovers. 12 April 2021
A select group of stakeholders explored pilot skill decay at the first CAT Leader Forum Workshop. Capt. Jacques Drappier provides a report on the findings of the group discussion. 8 April 2021
CPaT Global has been awarded a new contract by Air Tanzania for the provision of distance learning solutions, including Aircraft Systems courses, Interactive Diagrams, Aircraft Procedures, CPaT’s General Subjects library, and Invent, CPaT’s new, software development platform. 8 April 2021
The Aviation Technician Education Council Journal is currently accepting submissions for research, application, scholarly, or opinion articles. 8 April 2021
Air One Aviation Limited has acquired Quadrant Systems Limited, including the Approved Training Organisation Quadrant Pilot and the four-bay Full Flight Simulator facility. 7 April 2021
Watch our expert panel of Capt. Tanja Harter, European Cockpit Association, Capt. Martin Mahoney, Emirates, Capt. Carl Haslem, Resilient Pilot and Capt. Helen Heenan, KURA Human Factors discuss the impact the Covid-19 pandemic has had on pilot skills. Webinar hosted by Capt. Jacques Drappier. 7 April 2021
CAE is expanding its digital solutions portfolio with the addition of RB Group, a provider of integrated solutions that modernize the way airlines and business aircraft operators interact with their crew. 7 April 2021
In Denmark, higher education is free … but not pilot training.
Anna Kjær Thorsøe, General Manager / CTKI of Center Air Pilot Academy (CAPA) discusses attracting students and helping them to be attractive to airline interviewers. 7 April 2021
Airborne Training Services has selected L3Harris Technologies to deliver a Boeing 767-300ER Flat Panel Trainer to streamline and improve the cost-effectiveness of its training. 6 April 2021
The research center at Kore University in Enna, Italy, has acquired an Axis Level D full flight simulator to study pilot behavior, making it the first laboratory in Europe with a FFS used for research on human factors in aviation. 6 April 2021
Major US carriers and some regionals are ramping up hiring of pilots and other personnel as the vaccine rollout accelerates. Rick Adams relates some of the hopeful signs for a summer travel surge. 5 April 2021
United Airlines’ tolerance for passengers concerned about flying on the Boeing 737 MAX ends Wednesday, 7 April. 5 April 2021
Global Pilot Training Alliance has partnered with Symbiotics Ltd, an assessment, training & mental wellbeing expert. 1 April 2021
Ryanair has placed an order for an MPS B737 MAX FTD-2 to be delivered to its training center in Dublin, Ireland. 1 April 2021
We kicked off our new CAT Leader Forum series with a webinar discussion about pilot skills decay. With endorsement from Resilient Pilot, our expert panel offered valuable insight, and a combined, evidence-based view of the impact of Covid-19 on Pilot Skill Fade.
1 April 2021
Adacel Technologies Limited has appointed Michael Saunders as the company’s new Vice President,
Business Development and Strategy. 31 March 2021
AAR’s EAGLE Career Pathways program for aircraft maintenance technicians has been recognized by the U.S. Department of Labor’s Employment and Training Division as a nationally registered apprenticeship. 31 March 2021