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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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The accession pipeline in the US for new pilots, increasingly dependent on learning technologies, is being restored, and none too soon, as a pilot shortage is eyed toward the mid-part of this decade. Marty Kauchak reports.
Civil aviation remains on a turbulent path in the attempt to return to pre-Covid-19 operating levels. With lackluster passenger demand and the unsteady pace of restoring domestic and international routes, the industry is no longer facing the pilot shortage with which it was grappling just a few months ago. Reopened flight training programs, which increasingly rely on distance learning and other technologies to help select and retain aspiring pilots, are part of the strategy to help minimize a predicted next pilot shortage for later this decade.
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Avsoft has created an Airbus A321ceo aircraft systems online pilot course. 29 September 2020
Cat3C limited, based at Gloucester Airport, UK, has begun their first locationally mixed full-time ATPL theory course. 29 September 2020
Due to growing demand in the market Alsim has opened a new production site next to its factory in Le Loroux-Bottereau, Nantes, France. 28 September 2020
FlightSafety International now offers training for the Gulfstream G280 aircraft at its Learning Center in Wilmington, Delaware. 28 September 2020
A4E wants European States to adopt common standards for travel restriction “clarity and predictability.” 26 September 2020
Aeros Academy Cardiff, based at Cardiff Airport, welcomed its first DA42 training aircraft and with it opens up the training potential for cadets training at Cardiff, with the academy now able to offer Aeros' complete Fastrack programme. 25 September 2020
Avinor Air Navigation Services has gone live with Airways International Ltd’s TotalControl simulator at Oslo Airport in Norway, after completing remote site acceptance testing. 25 September 2020
Simcom Aviation Training has taken delivery of a Frasca-built Pilatus PC-12 NGX Level 6 Flight Training Device. 24 September 2020
Flight Level, a Spanish manufacturer of cabin crew training simulators, has delivered an A321neo Over-Wing Exit to Gulf Aviation Academy in Bahrain as part of a recently announced major joint partnership between Simloc and GAA. 24 September 2020
Avenger Flight Group has launched Poland’s first commercial aviation training center in a joint venture with Enter Air. 23 September 2020
MPS has been awarded a contract by Leading Edge Aviation for the supply of an A320 FTD. 23 September 2020
This guest commentary is offered by Christian Popp, Chief Customer Officer of MINT Software Systems. Christian looks at how the Covid-19 pandemic has changed our personal and professional relationship with technology. 23 September 2020
Flight school Learn to Fly Melbourne is the first in Australia to use Copenhagen-based Aviation eLearning’s Virtual 360E Editor (V360E) cockpit training technology. 22 September 2020
CAE has launched Airside, a new digital platform and online community for pilots. Airside provides career and training tools to support pilots during the Covid-19 pandemic, and throughout their professional career. 22 September 2020
Epic Flight Academy has taken delivery of a Frasca 172 Advanced Aviation Training Device with Frasca's Motion Cueing System for fixed wing devices. 21 September 2020
Thirteen outstanding high-school graduates will receive scholarships from The Boeing Company annually for two years to pursue degrees at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. 21 September 2020
Three outstanding students pursuing aviation studies have been awarded Terry Hibler Memorial Scholarships of $4,000 each by the Regional Airline Association Scholarship Foundation. 18 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 first section of this five part series is on Airline Recovery Scenarios and the Impact of Pilot Retirements.
Kit Darby outlines possible airline recovery models, pilot retirements at the major US airlines, scenarios for the resumption of pilot hiring, and a comparison of airline early-retirement offers. 17 September 2020
CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams spoke with the ECA’s Capt. Otjan de Bruijn about the uncertain prospects for pilots of European carriers.
Pilots flying for airlines based in European Union countries are perhaps more at risk than their American counterparts for two critical reasons: so-called “self-employment” contracts at low-cost carriers and a smaller pool of senior pilots expected to retire.
Of the 65,000 pilots in the EU (40,000 of them represented by the European Cockpit Association), about 12,000 were hired under what ECA refers to as “atypical” contracts, i.e. self-employed freelancers rather than airline employees in schemes used by such airlines as Norwegian and Ryanair. Capt. Otjan de Bruijn, Vice President of the volunteer-run association and a B777 pilot for KLM, told CAT they conservatively estimate half of such pilots lost their jobs early in the Covid crisis.
In addition, ECA estimates another 9,000 traditional pilot jobs are at risk, or 15,000 total.
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