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Avsoft has been awarded a contract from SiAvia, a Jet Management company based in Slovenia, to provide its eLearning Products and LMS Services. The Avsoft ERJ 145 Aircraft Systems Course is being used as part of SiAvia's ATO Type Training for its Student Pilots at its Training Centre in Ljubljana,... 14 June 2017
CAE and Korea Airports Corporation (KAC) have inaugurated a new CAE training facility at Gimpo Airport in Seoul, Korea, to support the growing pilot training needs of Korean carriers including Jeju Air, Korean Airlines, Asiana Airlines, Eastar Jet and Air Seoul. The inauguration of the new six simulator bay... 14 June 2017
Leonardo Helicopters has officially opened its AW101 Norway Training Centre at Stavanger Sola Airport. The facility, which is housed in a new annex at the Thales Flight Training Centre, but is operated and managed by Leonardo Helicopters, will act as a dedicated satellite of the company’s Yeovil Training Academy,... 14 June 2017
ACS Flight Training, a wholly owned subsidiary of Cloud Global Group Ltd, has signed a contract regarding the purchase of an AL42 flight simulator – an exact copy of the Diamond DA42 – from Alsim. The contract was signed at AeroExpo UK, which took place at Wycombe Air Park... 14 June 2017
Amsterdam, Netherlands-based Flame Aviation has received an order for its V9000 Commander cabin fire + smoke trainer from the flag carrier of Lebanon, Middle East Airlines (MEA). The V9000 Commander will be based at MEA's new training center at Rafik Hariri International Airport in Beirut. It is due to... 14 June 2017
Hong Kong Airlines is to deliver a cadet pilot program in partnership with L3 Commercial Training Solutions’ Airline Academy (L3 CTS) in a bid to support resourcing demands as it expands from a regional airline to an international carrier. The cadet pilot program, which is open for applications until... 14 June 2017
Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT), the flight training program operated by Lufthansa Airlines, has selected the Cirrus SR20 as the aircraft type which will make up its primary training fleet. LAT has ordered 25 aircraft to lead its ab-initio, MPL and other flight training programs in Goodyear, Arizona. Delivery of... 14 June 2017
ATR’s Paris Training Center, based near Charles de Gaulle airport, will soon benefit from the introduction of a brand-new ATR 72-600 Full Flight Simulator (FFS) manufactured by TRU Simulation + Training. The simulator, which will be EASA-certified, is due to commence operations as of November 2017. The OEM’s Paris... 13 June 2017
UFA delivered the 39th ATTower Tower Simulation System (TSS) to the United States Navy as part of the USN TSS Project. This latest TSS was installed at U.S. Marine Corps Air Station New River, North Carolina. The ATTower system integrates ATView 3D airport visualization; full ATVoice Voice Recognition and Response... 13 June 2017
CityJet has chosen to deploy Pelesys’ Training Management and Deployment System (TMDS) to meet future electronic training records management requirements. The carrier, which is headquartered in Ireland, will use Pelesys’ Qualification Management System (QMS) module to monitor, aggregate and maintain its employee qualifications. As a rule-based solution, QMS automates... 12 June 2017
Norway’s Avinor Air Navigation Services has signed a framework agreement with Indra to provide the support needed for the deployment of the latter’s interoperability through European Collaboration (iTEC) air traffic management (ATM) system. Rafael Gallego, Director General of Indra, explains, “iTEC is a new and very advanced air traffic... 12 June 2017
Avsoft has been awarded a contract from AIS Flight Academy, part of the AIS airline group, based in The Netherlands to provide e-Learning products and LMS services for its Boeing 737-400 aircraft systems course. This course will be used as for Type and Recurrent training for AIS customers at its... 12 June 2017
AeroStar and SkyBlue Jet Aviation, of Stuart, Florida, are teaming up to promote their type ratings services. AeroStar offers pilot type ratings training in the A320 and B737 aircraft, along with ATP-CTP, and SkyBlue Jet Aviation offers initial Cessna Citation type rating and Citation recurrent training on the Citation 500,... 12 June 2017
Fiji Airways has selected Flight Training Adelaide (FTA) to conduct flight deck crew selection on the airline's behalf. Under the agreement reached between the two companies, FTA will conduct a screening program for candidates to join the airline as direct entry flight deck crew. Mr. Pine Pienaar, FTA's CEO commented:... 12 June 2017
The Seminole County Sheriff's Office recently purchased an ELITE TH-1000 advanced aviation training device (AATD) from ELITE Simulation Solutions in Oviedo, Florida. This single-seat AATD is FAA certified and replicates their current fleet of Airbus AStar Helicopters with a 3-screen enhanced visual system. The Seminole County Sheriff's Office Aviation Unit... 12 June 2017
Alpha Aviation Group has launched its new multi-million dollar full flight Airbus A330/A340 simulator at a ceremony at its Clark training facility in the Philippines. The first widebody simulator in the Philippines, the simulator has complete Airbus A330 and A340 functionality - fully replicating the cockpit experience and functions of... 8 June 2017
Three pioneers of the global aviation training community were recognised at the annual meeting of airline, regulatory and industry training experts, WATS 2017 (World Airline Training Summit). Awarded by CAT magazine, the three individuals received the first 'CAT Pioneer' awards and will have subsequent awards named for them as part... 8 June 2017
BA CityFlyer has once again selected FTEJerez to train the future pilots of its Multi-Crew Pilot Licence (MPL) programme. The MPL course will commence in November 2017, with successful cadets due to train in Jerez for the first 54 weeks before moving onto the Embraer type rating training with BA... 7 June 2017
EDM has won an order from China Eastern Airlines to manufacture two B787 door trainers. EDM will design and manufacture booth door trainers at its Manchester facility in the UK before shipping and installing them at the airline's cabin crew training centre in Shanghai, China. The equipment will be specifically... 7 June 2017
India's Jet Airways has launched a new Commercial Pilot License (CPL) cadet pilot training programme in collaboration with CAE. The ab initio programme is aimed at creating more than 380 professional pilots over the next five years, with the first set of 60 cadets due to begin training during the... 7 June 2017