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Delta is providing hundreds of thousands of pounds of perishable and non-perishable food to hospitals, community food banks and other organizations around the world to support people in need as well as those working tirelessly on the front lines of the COVID-19 pandemic. Delta adjusted food offerings on... 8 April 2020
Simulation leads the way! Our CAT community is undertaking some wonderful projects supporting the global Covid-19 response. In his blog post below, Nigel Orme, StratStep Group CEO, explains how to survive, maintain and then restart your aviation business during the global Coronavirus challenges. 8 April 2020
A challenge issued by the Montréal General Hospital Foundation and the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre, backed by a prize of CAD 200,000, has spurred engineers at flight simulator manufacturer CAE to design a prototype, easy-to-build ventilator. Ventilators are used to keep patients’ lungs supplied with... 8 April 2020
A taskforce of volunteer British Airways employees, including cabin crews and logistics teams, will be assisting efforts against coronavirus in the UK. “We’ve had an overwhelming response to our request for volunteers from across British Airways to help in the community fight against coronavirus,” said BA Director of External... 8 April 2020
Cranfield University received in February its sixth Queen’s Anniversary Prize, presented by HRH The Prince of Wales, with HRH The Duchess of Cornwall, on behalf of Her Majesty the Queen and his Royal Highness the Duke of Edinburgh. The Queen’s Anniversary Prizes are the highest awards in the UK... 7 April 2020
Air India's pilot unions are opposing a 10% cut in “flying allowances,” a category which falls unequally on pilots compared with management of the state-owned airline. They said the decision goes against the spirit of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's appeal to Indian companies to ensure that salaries of employees... 7 April 2020
“We are making a commitment to transform the definition of airline cleanliness – Delta Clean,” says Delta Air Lines Chief Customer Experience Officer Bill Lentsch in a YouTube video (you can watch it here). By early May, all aircraft will be “fogged” with a hospital-type disinfectant before each flight... 7 April 2020
Hevilift, an air charter operator based in Papua New Guinea (PNG), providing transportation services for personnel and equipment in the region, has awarded Avsoft International a long-term contract for online pilot training. Image credit: Avsoft International Hevilift is using Avsoft’s ATR 72-500 aircraft systems e-learning course to provide initial... 6 April 2020
Concerned that the COVID-19 pandemic is putting pressure on some operators and crew to neglect or suspend some aspects of aviation safety - such as the standards for crew fatigue management, the International Federation of Air Line Pilots’ Associations (IFALPA) HUPER Fatigue Management Working Group has provided some initial... 6 April 2020
Airbus continues to purchase and supply millions of face masks from China, the large majority of which will be donated to governments of the Airbus home countries, namely France, Germany, Spain and the UK. An Airbus flight test crew has just completed its latest mission with an A350-1000 test... 6 April 2020
With pilots sent home due to COVID-19, Scandinavian charter airline SunClass has found a way to maintain air crew proficiency using Aviation eLearning’s V360E. The customisable virtual train and track software solves the urgent training need and minimises the amount of training required once full operation resumes. “The Virtual... 6 April 2020
Simtech Aviation has sold its ATR 72-500 simulator to Finnair. The TRU Simulation + Training simulator is certified to Level D full motion by the Irish Aviation Authority and will be relocated to Finnair’s Training Base in Helsinki in the coming weeks. Simtech Aviation, in conjunction with Finnair and... 6 April 2020
ATPL theory publisher, Padpilot has announced the release of the first ATPL theory books for the new EASA 2020 syllabus. The Padpilot series of ‘2nd Edition’ ATPL (A) books is now available for use by ab-initio pilot training academies and ground schools and can also be downloaded directly from... 6 April 2020
Group Editor Martin Kauchak provides a “wellness report” during the coronavirus outbreak on two S&T industry members, Frasca International and Mint Software Systems. CAT readers are well aware of the physical and financial tolls the COVID-19 pandemic continues to exact on the broad civil aviation community. While decreasing airline... 2 April 2020
VA Airline Training (VA) is committed to supporting pilots in various ways during this extremely challenging period, with further service enhancements. VA provides additional APS MCC training free of charge during a course to ensure genuine competence and readiness for the skills test, airline selection and type rating training. 2 April 2020
Amid school closures caused by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, Redbird has decided to launch an online series of the Redbird STEM+ Lab. The STEM+ Lab will feature interactive classes for students in middle school and high school. Beginning on March 31st, Redbird’s STEM Director Greg Roark will lead students... 1 April 2020
Is response to increased requests for pricing information for their Reconfigurable Training Device (RTD), Frasca International has launched a pricing configurator which includes enhanced product details to simplify customer's research and buying process. The configurator will make it easier for those interested in the more affordable simulator to see... 1 April 2020
Brexit, flygskam, disabled passengers, eye tracking, regulatory task forces, the correlation of certification with training – EATS 2019 covered a spectrum of high-interest issues and innovations. Mario Pierobon monitored the proceedings. 1 April 2020
Editorial Comment There is an abundance of lessons to be learned from the Boeing MAX tragedies in Jakarta and Addis Ababa. Lessons about aircraft design, software, certification, safety culture, corporate decision-making, crisis reaction, communications. And training. The entire global civil aviation industry has suffered, is suffering, from the wake... 1 April 2020
Entrol has sold an en-4000 FNPT II MCC simulator to Turin Flying Institute. The en-4000 is a SEP, MEP and JET reconfigurable simulator. The unit purchased by Turin Flying Institute will be equipped with a debriefing station and a smoke machine. The JET configuration will also feature sidesticks for... 1 April 2020