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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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CAE announced at Halldale Media’s 2017 Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) event in Singapore that it has expanded its agreement with Air Niugini to support the airline's Fokker F100 pilot training needs in the region. Pilots began training in the second half of 2017 and CAE instructors are... 31 August 2017
With the recent announcement of A-Level results in the UK, the British Airline Pilots’ Association (BALPA) is calling for the airline industry to ensure pilot selection is open to all and that those from less advantaged backgrounds are not put off. The association is arguing that training costs of... 31 August 2017
Envoy Air has officially welcomed Tulsa, Oklahoma-based Spartan College of Aeronautics and Technology to the Envoy Cadet Program. “We created the Cadet Program to ensure we continue to recruit quality pilots to position Envoy for success,” said Natalie Nielsen, Envoy Air’s Director of Pilot Recruitment. “We’re pleased to welcome... 31 August 2017
FlightSafety International has received orders for full flight simulators from Aeroméxico Connect, S7 Airlines of Russia and SF Airlines of China. Aeroméxico Connect is to receive its second Embraer E190 FFS during the second quarter of 2018 at the Aeroméxico Training Center in Mexico City. “We are pleased that... 31 August 2017
L3 Commercial Training Solutions’ Airline Academy (L3 Airline Academy) is working with airline partner British Airways to offer its cadets the opportunity to be pre-selected for a British Airways First Officer position while still completing their airline pilot career program. The opportunity is currently exclusive to L3 Airline Academy’s... 31 August 2017
At Halldale Media Group’s 2017 Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium (APATS) event, CAE announced it is expanding its training footprint in South East Asia through a collaboration with Jakarta Aviation Training Centre (JATC). Under this collaboration, CAE will deploy its first-ever owned full-flight simulator in Indonesia (an Airbus A320... 29 August 2017
easyJet has extended its Amy Johnson initiative by setting itself the target of filling half of the 14 places in its 2017 Aeronautical Engineering Apprenticeship intake with women. The apprenticeship programme is in partnership with Resource Group and its Aviation Maintenance Training Division, with successful candidates due to commence... 29 August 2017
Bosch Rexroth has signed an agreement with KLM to supply the motion platform solution for one of its new Cabin Emergency Evacuation Trainers (CEETs), which is being manufactured by EDM. Rexroth’s motion platform will be used to simulate flying conditions in a Boeing 777 aircraft cabin, with the CEET... 29 August 2017
Rostock System-Technik GmbH (RST) has been selected by Malaysia Airlines Berhad to manufacture and deliver Airbus A350 and Boeing 737 door trainers to support emergency and crew procedure training at the Malaysia Airlines Training Centre in Kuala Lumpur. Both training devices will be installed by RST and commissioned together... 29 August 2017
Groundschool London, a brand new flying training academy, has opened in south-west London to offer future pilots the opportunity to learn the foundation skills required to pursue a career in aviation. The 20-hour Future Pilots course is designed to equip senior school students (aged 15 and upwards) with the... 29 August 2017
The Airbus Foundation, together with its partners The Little Engineer, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore and the Singapore Space and Technology Association, has conducted two further workshops as part of the Airbus Little Engineer programme in Singapore. The first four-hour workshop, which was organised with the Civil Aviation... 29 August 2017
BAA Training has received renewed approval from the Russian Federal Air Transport Agency (Rostaviatsia) for Boeing 737 CL initial, recurrent and renewal training. The approval also grants use of BAA Training’s own Boeing 737 CL full flight simulator for providing training to Russian airline operators. It is estimated that... 29 August 2017
AXIS Flight Training Systems is to deliver a new ATR 72-600 Level D full-flight simulator (FFS) to FSTC's facilities in Delhi during the first half of 2018. As part of the deal, AXIS’ second with FSTC, the company will also deliver a number of complementary lower-level training devices to... 29 August 2017
Frasca International, Inc. has received an order for a second CJ1+ Level 5 Flight Training Device (FTD) from CAE Oxford Aviation Academy in Mesa, Arizona, which focuses on ab initio flight training. The first CJ1+ FTD was delivered to CAE Oxford Aviation Academy by Frasca in 2013. When the... 28 August 2017
The DiSTI Corporation and Peak Pacific have announced a strategic partnership to provide Software as a Service (SaaS) virtual 3D training solutions for the commercial airline industry. Kishor Mistry, Peak Pacific Group’s CEO, stated, “Peak Pacific has developed a leading-edge SaaS platform for Competency/Evidence-Based Training (C/EBT) that we call... 28 August 2017
AirAsia and CAE have concluded a sale and purchase agreement concerning the Asian Aviation Centre of Excellence (AACE), which is currently a 50:50 joint venture between the two companies. The US$100 million transaction (including earn-out) will give CAE full control over AACE's three training centres – located in Sepang,... 25 August 2017
CAE has launched a Madrid-based Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) pilot training programme in partnership with European low-cost carrier Volotea. Under the terms of the agreement, CAE will select, assess and train up to 50 new professional pilots for the airline over the next five years. This autumn, the... 25 August 2017
Flame Aviation has successfully completed the installation of a V9000 Commander Cabin Fire + Smoke Trainer for Philippine Airlines (PAL) at its Ninoy Aquino International Airport hub in Manila. Installation was completed in less than two days since the fire trainer is designed to be a ‘plug & play’... 25 August 2017
Tony Bermingham, Managing Director of EDM (front row, second from left) and Mick Bonney, Sales Director of EDM (back row, third from left) at the contract signing ceremony with KLM on 24 August 2017. EDM has been selected by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to manufacture Boeing 777 and 737... 25 August 2017
Fiumicino, Italy-based Blue Panorama Airlines has entered into a long-term training service agreement with Flyco Group. As part of the agreement, Blue Panorama’s training department will gain full access to Flyco’s Advanced Learning Management System (A-LMS) including a bespoke courseware library fully customised to the carrier’s requirements. The library... 25 August 2017