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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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Aryan Arji, formerly a commercial pilot with Flybe, has been named Head of Education at Cat3C Limited. 9 October 2020
SIMAERO has introduced its Learning Management System which provides different theoretical modules of type rating programs. 8 October 2020
Starlite Aviation Training Academy, based in Durban and Mossel Bay, South Africa has purchased an AL250 from Alsim. 8 October 2020
CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, continues his conversation with Kit Darby discussing risk factors such as recession, job cuts, mergers, fuel costs and terrorism on airline pilot hiring. Plus the unique challenges of getting a foreign flying job, corporate flying, and pay/benefit packages by airline and aircraft type. 8 October 2020
CAE became carbon neutral as of September 2020, becoming the first Canadian aerospace company to reach this goal. 7 October 2020
Norwegian Competence Centre Helicopter AS has announced a partnership with RotorSky GmbH, an Austrian helicopter flight school with more than 15 years of experience in all kinds of helicopter pilot training. 7 October 2020
Tayside Aviation has announced a partnership with Cat3C to complement the delivery of Tayside’s BSc Hons Degree Course. 7 October 2020
Finnair has chosen SIMORG’s end-to-end software solution to manage its Flight Academy’s Flight Simulation Training Device operations. 6 October 2020
European flight school FlyBy has opened its second pilot training base in Northern Spain to help cater for a significant upsurge in new cadets. 6 October 2020
Women in Aviation International's 6th Annual Girls in Aviation Day was celebrated virtually with the launch of the new Aviation for Girls App, sponsored by the U.S. Air Force. 6 October 2020
Pilot Flight Academy in Norway is opening a new training site in Denton, Texas, in partnership with US Aviation Academy. 6 October 2020
Iroise Aéro Formation has purchased from entrol an A32 FNPT II MCC simulator which will be installed at their premises in Guipavas, France. 5 October 2020
Emirates has selected CEFA Aviation's flight data animation software to enhance its flight safety monitoring. 5 October 2020
To preserve our mastery in a digitized world, we need to match the technical capabilities of new technologies with an application strategy for our benefit. To do that, we need a working, albeit basic, understanding of these new technologies. Commentary by Christian Popp. 5 October 2020
Fatigue reports are “an important tool for aviation authorities in overseeing operators' fatigue risk management or safety in general,” according to a new guidance document. 2 October 2020
Construction is underway on ATP Flight School's advanced flight training center at the Arlington Municipal Airport in Arlington, Texas. 1 October 2020
infoWERK has signed a deal with Stuttgart, Germany-based E-Aviation (Eisele Flugdienst GmbH) for numerous e-learning courses for its Flight and Cabin Crew. 30 September 2020
The Pandemic Recovery Agreement prevents any pilot from being laid-off until June of 2021. However, pilots will work fewer hours and make less money. 30 September 2020
CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, talks with Kit Darby, one of the leading experts on professional pilot careers about the state of the North American aviation market - recovery, retirements, furloughs, pay packages, and advice for moving to the head of the queue when hiring restarts (perhaps sooner than you think). The third section of this five-part series is on Aircraft Utilization, Pilot Work Schedules, and Pilot Demand.
Kit addresses the effects of aircraft utilization, pilot workload, and pilots-to-aircraft ratios in determining pilot staffing requirements. 30 September 2020
CPaT Global has added an Aircraft Procedures suite to its library of courseware. 29 September 2020