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TUIfly from Germany has ordered a V7000 Brigade™ cabin fire & smoke trainer from Flame Aviation in the Netherlands. The new fire trainer is scheduled for delivery in August and will be installed at the TUIfly training facilities at Hannover Airport in Germany. Flame's V7000 Brigade is a spacious fire... 27 June 2016
Flyco Training Solutions Group has signed a pan-European contract to deliver pilot training to Small Planet Airlines Group, across Lithuania, Germany and Poland. Already familiar with e-training tools, Small Planet decided to switch from a competing offering to Flyco due to a requirement for full customization of the system and... 27 June 2016
Adacel has completed installation and site acceptance testing for their MaxSim Tower Simulation System and Intelligent Communications Environment (ICE) training systems at Princess Juliana International Airport in St. Maarten. The Adacel MaxSim Tower simulator will enable training in all facets of aerodrome control. The ICE stations are independent systems that... 23 June 2016
Diamond Visionics, a provider of 3D visualization and image generation, gave a cash award to the winners of the “IT FLIES USA 2016” competition at the University of Dayton. The competition, sponsored by Merlin Flight Simulation Group, featured student teams from the University of Dayton and the University of Manchester... 22 June 2016
On behalf of the UK Civil Aviation Authority (UK CAA), CAA International (CAAi) is set to open a brand new EASA Part-66 Aircraft Maintenance Licence (AML) electronic examination centre in Istanbul, Turkey. The first exams will be delivered on Thursday 22nd September 2016 at British Side Language School, in Besiktas,... 21 June 2016
Swiss AviationTraining (SAT) has put its new Bombardier C Series full flight simulator into service at its Zurich Airport training base. The simulator, which is the first in Europe to be certificated for pilot training, will be primarily used to train the C Series flightdeck crews of Swiss International Air... 21 June 2016
EDM is investing £1.3m to expand its manufacturing facility. The new 18,000 square feet structure is being built at EDM's headquarters in Manchester, UK, to meet the demands of the company's rapidly increasing order book. The purpose-built facility will house up to 40 employees across a range of disciplines and... 21 June 2016
Global Training Aviation has reached an agreement with Indra for the construction and operation of an ATR 72-600 simulator. The new simulator will be located on the premises of GTA SENASA in Madrid, along with the existing ATR 72-500 simulator, also manufactured by Indra, and it will complement the training... 20 June 2016
EDM welcomed a group of engineering students from the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) last month. Accompanied by lecturers from the university's School of Engineering, the students spent an afternoon at EDM's 100,000 square feet manufacturing facility in Newton Heath, east Manchester, where they were given a guided tour by... 16 June 2016
Aviation training specialist Flyco Training Solutions Group has struck an agreement to supply e-learning courseware to Norlandair Iceland. Flyco's LMS will enable Norlandair's pilots to access study material from a portfolio of around 300 courses, at any time, on any device, even when offline. The system will automatically monitor user... 16 June 2016
Embraer Executive Jets has delivered the first Phenom 100E to Etihad Flight College, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Etihad Airways. The flight school is in Al Ain, United Arab Emirates and provides ab-initio pilot training for the airline’s expanding fleet. The school is the first to use the aircraft in the initial phase... 15 June 2016
India's largest and fastest growing low cost carrier, InterGlobe Aviation Limited (IndiGo) has partnered with CTC Aviation, to launch a new airline pilot career programme to train its future pilots. The IndiGo cadet pilot programme will see successful applicants achieving a dual - NZCAA and Indian DGCA - licence upon... 14 June 2016
Global pilot training academy Airways Aviation is now offering a funding scheme for people wishing to train as a pilot in the UK and Spain, through an arrangement with BBVA. BBVA's flight training loan scheme is a secured funding option and offers those interested in an aviation career a bespoke... 14 June 2016
Asian Aviation Centre of Excellence (AACE), a joint venture between Air Asia and CAE, added a new A330 CAE 7000XR Series full-flight simulator (FFS) at the AACE training centre in Glenmarie, Selangor, Malaysia that brings the total number of full-flight simulators at all AACE centres to 12. AACE supports pilot... 14 June 2016
Ithaca Tompkins Regional Airport has won a $620,000 New York State Airport Infrastructure grant, part of $10 million awarded for airport capital project improvements across New York State from the Governor’s Aviation Capital Grant Program. The grant will fund construction of a Flight Academy Building at the airport that will... 13 June 2016
FlightSafety International’s third Airbus A320 full flight simulator (FFS) built for Wisesoft Corporation has received Level D qualification from the Civil Aviation Administration of China (CAAC). FlightSafety is building a fourth Airbus A320 for Wisesoft that will be delivered at the end of 2016. The simulator is installed at the... 13 June 2016
Earlier this month CTC Aviation announced the re-opening of applications to the CTC WINGS Multi-crew Pilot Licence (MOL) in partnership with easyJet. Since its launch in 2013, the programme has provided aspiring pilots the opportunity to join a full-time career programme, leading directly to a job as an easyJet co-pilot... 9 June 2016
Simulation Training Company and SIMCOM Aviation Training have announced a collaboration to open a general and business aviation training center near Paris, France. The training center will be branded SIMCOM Aviation Training Europe (SATE) and will focus on the light and medium business jet as well as owner flown market. 7 June 2016
Dr Khalid A.N. Al Ohaly, president of the Arabian Gulf University (AGU) and French Arabian Business School based in Bahrain and Didier Penabayre, managing director of AirBusiness Academy, an Airbus Group company, have signed an MoU to develop and deploy a new MBA track specialised in Aviation Management to be... 7 June 2016
CAE has announced ab-initio pilot training and resourcing agreements with commercial airlines including IndiGo, CityJet and China's Schenzhen Airlines. IndiGo has signed a new ab-initio pilot training contract with CAE for the creation of over 200 additional professional pilots through 2018. As part of the airline's training footprint expansion, one... 1 June 2016