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2FLY Group is replacing its current combined Multi-Crew Cooperation (MCC) and Jet Orientation Course (JOC) course with Virtual Aviation’s (VA) new AirlineReady™ APS (Airline Pilot Standards) MCC . The switch to the new APS MCC course structure will better equip students with the knowledge, skills and attitudes required to... 8 August 2018
Late spring in London usually means attending the Royal Aeronautical Society’s Flight Simulation Group’s spring conference, to take the temperature of where we are headed as an industry in terms of innovation in technology, training practices and the impact of regulatory change in flight simulation and training. Mark Dransfield reports. 8 August 2018
The leading region for growth in commercial aviation is Asia, and here more and more women are involved in the industry over a variety of disciplines, involving roles as senior management, flight crew, engineering, ATC, flight dispatch etc. Chris Long continues CAT’s Women in Aviation series. 7 August 2018
Cobham Aviation Services, a scheduled and charter airline and aviation services provider, and Flight Training Adelaide, a pilot training provider, launched the Cobham Cadet Pilot program to help with the pilot shortage and prepare cadets to be hired as First Officers in Cobham's fleet of Dash 8 aircraft that Cobham... 6 August 2018
Spatial, a provider of cabin crew training simulators, is opening a U.S. office near Los Angeles, California to support its client base and expansion plans. The new office will be Spatial’s first permanent presence in the U.S. and, the company says, will help alleviate the issue of a 12-hour time... 6 August 2018
How can maintenance training be used as a strategy for profitability? Dr. William Cox examines how airlines can make this work. 6 August 2018
It was with the development of multi-crew pilot licensing (MPL) that the change from hour-based training in ATPL to competence-based training in MPL came into effect. Mario Pierobon finds out more. 6 August 2018
While extended reality (XR) technologies – the new catch-all designation for VR, AR, MR and other such emerging “realities” – are seeing widespread commercial applications to entertainment, education and manufacturing, the aviation industry has also started to adopt them as well. Chuck Weirauch explores what is available. 6 August 2018
Bernie Baldwin catches up on some of the latest cabin technologies being developed by manufacturers and employed by training organisations. 6 August 2018
Group Editor Marty Kauchak asked four community subject matter experts to reflect on the continued evolution of flight training devices and respond to the question: Is the technology in non-motion devices sufficiently advanced to permit compelling price/performance ratios? 6 August 2018
Despite Level D requirements already being well satisfied, visual systems for civil flight simulators continue to improve incrementally, driven by new capabilities developed primarily for consumer markets. Rick Adams looks at trends in projectors and image generators. 6 August 2018
The EDM Group has acquired RP Aero Systems of Littlehampton, UK. As part of a larger organisation, operating in the same market sector, this collaboration will allow RP Aero Systems access to larger geographical markets with additional customers and greater resources. In addition, it will give RP Aero Systems access... 6 August 2018
The awareness of the potentially chronic shortage of commercial pilots has now extended to the general public as the mass media highlights the issue. Chris Long speaks to Airbus about their latest initiative. 6 August 2018
L3 Commercial Aviation has been selected to provide training for Air France cadet pilots at the company's L3 European Airline Academy in Portugal. L3 has also been chosen to supply Air France with an Airbus A350 RealitySeven full flight simulator (FFS). L3 will deliver training for approximately 30 cadet... 6 August 2018
The Secretary General of the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), Dr. Fang Liu and the Consul General of China in Montreal, Mr. Xueming Chen have launched the new Civil Aviation Authority Senior and Middle Managers Training Course. Funded by the Government of China, under its South-South Cooperation Assistance Fund, the new course... 3 August 2018
Cadets enrolled with L3 will have the opportunity to train at Pilot Flight Academy (PFA) in Norway following an agreement between the two companies. The first groups of cadets from L3's Airline Academy will start training for the IR and MEP program at PFA in August 2018. The agreement... 1 August 2018
FlightSafety International pilots Francisco Roberto Gonzalez Calvo, David Thatcher and Darren Fleming are the first to become FlightSafety Master Aviators with the Dassault Falcon aircraft. Calvo is a Falcon 2000EX EASy pilot, while Thatcher and Fleming are Dassault Falcon 7X pilots. FlightSafety says earning Master Aviator demonstrates a pilot’s flying... 31 July 2018
Irish airline Stobart Air, a franchise partner for major airlines, collaborated with the Cork International Airport-based Atlantic Flight Training Academy (AFTA) to train and recruit new pilots this year in, what the companies say, is a first-of-its-kind program. At the end of the program students will earn a commercial flying... 31 July 2018
The Chair of the rule-making group on Evidence-based Training at EASA, Captain Phil Cullen, has announced that the Notice of Proposed Amendment (NPA) for EBT has been published on the EASA website. The European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) stated in the European Aviation Safety plan (EASp) 2014-2017 the need for... 31 July 2018
Cirrus Aviation, a flight training institution, purchased an Alsim AL172 simulator, a replica of the Cessna 172 SP Skyhawk NAVIII aircraft. The simulator features Garmin G1000 avionics and uses Alsim’s High Definition Visual System. It also meets the requirements for U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) Flight Training Devices (FTD) level... 30 July 2018