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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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AVION Group has appointed Edwin Huisman as the new Managing Director and Accountable Manager of AVION Training. In his new role, Huisman will be responsible for all training facilities at Maastricht-Aachen Airport in The Netherlands, Dalaman Airport in Turkey and new soon-to-be-opened training facilities in Malta. Huisman, former CFO... 12 September 2017
ICAO Secretary General Dr. Fang Liu with His Majesty King Willem-Alexander of the Netherlands (left) and at her alma mater, Leiden University (right). Dr. Fang Liu, ICAO’s Secretary General, has conducted a mission to the Netherlands where she took part in discussions with His Majesty King Willem-Alexander and helped... 12 September 2017
L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) has received a contract from Republic Airline to provide a suite of training devices for its Embraer E175 flight training programme. The training devices L3 CTS will deliver as part of the package with Republic include its ETHOS Systems Knowledge Suite and Procedures... 12 September 2017
Wizz Air, SmartLynx Airlines and Viet Flight Training (a subsidiary of Vietnam Airlines) are among the first airlines to access MOMook’s training management solution, which allows them to monitor pilots’ training progress in real time, through a partnership with BAA Training. The airlines needed access to BAA Training’s software... 11 September 2017
Under a new agreement, Ottawa, Ontario-based OAS Flight Centre Inc. (Ottawa Aviation Services) is to become the fifteenth organisation in the Jazz Aviation Pathways Program (Jazz APP). The Jazz APP is aimed at establishing a direct career path for qualifying graduates and offers the opportunity for OAS's top-performing Canadian... 11 September 2017
Emirates Flight Training Academy has taken delivery of its first two Cirrus SR22 G6 training aircraft in Dubai. A6-CTA and A6-CTB are the first of 22 single-piston engine Cirrus aircraft ordered by the Academy to train ab initio pilots. The two aircraft landed in Dubai following a transatlantic journey... 8 September 2017
ATP Flight School has accepted delivery of its 300th training aircraft – a factory-new Piper Archer TX – as part of a three-year agreement with Piper for the purchase of up to 100 aircraft to increase training capacity and meet the growing demand for airline pilots. To stay ahead... 8 September 2017
Airways Aviation is offering potential aviators in Germany the chance to win a scholarship of €40,000 that will go towards their airline pilot training. Romy Howatt, Founder and Shareholder of Airways Aviation, commented, “The world is in need of airline pilots and we understand that for many potential aviators,... 8 September 2017
Alsim has sold an ALX SEP (Cessna 172) MEP (PA44) and Beech 200 to OMNI Aviation Group which will be placed with the OMNI Aviation Training Center (OATC) in Portugal. OMNI Aviation Group has been a client of Alsim’s since 2008 and already owned an AL200 MCC. Alsim proposed... 8 September 2017
The first six of 19 students have completed the airline-focused training portion of JetBlue’s Gateway Select competency-based programme for aspiring pilots. They are now continuing to earn their FAA-mandated 1,500 hours of flight time at a CAE facility in Arizona where they will work as pilot instructors. Following this,... 8 September 2017
L3 Commercial Training Solutions (L3 CTS) is to supply Spring Airlines with two RealitySeven Airbus A320 full flight simulators as well as an Enhanced Flat Panel Trainer (EFPT). The two A320neo devices will be delivered in 2018 and 2019 and will join three RealitySeven A320 FFS systems already in... 8 September 2017
United Technologies (NYSE: UTC) announced Wednesday that the company is acquiring Rockwell Collins (NYSE: COL) for $140 per share, in cash and UTC stock. “This acquisition adds tremendous capabilities to our aerospace businesses and strengthens our complementary offerings of technologically advanced aerospace systems,” said UTC Chairman and CEO Greg Hayes. 7 September 2017
SimiGon has been awarded a prime contract with the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to deliver its SIMbox simulation development tools and training in support of the FAA's advanced Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Research Simulator. The contract will see SimiGon's SIMbox simulation engine and development environment system become a... 7 September 2017
151 new young people have just started either traditional or dual-study training programs with the Lufthansa Technik Group, meaning the company is now home to 569 young people on their way to professions in technical aircraft services or aircraft logistics. Of the 151, 76 of the new trainees are... 5 September 2017
Global management consultancy Oliver Wyman has acquired UK-based AVISA Aviation Safety Systems, signalling the expansion of its technical consulting and services division, CAVOK, into Europe. AVISA Aviation Safety Systems is a leading technical consultancy that also provides airworthiness management support and training for major international airlines as well as... 4 September 2017
Greater Manchester Mayor, Andy Burnham, formally opens a new £1.3m 20,000 square feet facility for EDM next to the company’s Managing Director, Tony Bermingham, and the rest of EDM’s Directors. EDM welcomed the Mayor of Greater Manchester, Andy Burnham, to officially open its new £1.3m manufacturing facility at the UK... 4 September 2017
High school students participating in the Air Force Junior Reserve Officer Training Corps (JROTC) will have the chance to earn college credit thanks to a new partnership with Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University’s Gaetz Aerospace Institute. The Gaetz Aerospace Institute – a science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) dual-enrolment education program... 2 September 2017
Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) has finalised the development of its Generic Jet Training Device (GenJet), an affordable fixed base simulator for flight training organisations. MPS says the GenJet device is ideal for selection, APS, MCC, JOC, MPL2 and IFR training, with a design loosely based on the functionality of... 2 September 2017
FlyRight, an FAA-approved Part-142 Pilot Training Center based in Charlotte, North Carolina, has added Bombardier Dash-8 training to its growing list of training programs. Following successful Level C qualification of its CAE-built Dash-8 100/300 simulator and instructor qualification from the FAA, FlyRight has begun offering initial/type, recurrent, upgrade and... 1 September 2017
BAA Training estimates that more than 650 future pilots will have enrolled on its Ab Initio programmes by the end of 2021. This year, the number of students at BAA Training has increased sharply – those enrolling on Ab Initio programmes has almost doubled compared to 2016. The company... 1 September 2017