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13 January 2025 Penny McGrigor The aviation training industry stands at the forefront of innovation, however, alongside these opportunities come significant challenges that must be carefully managed to ensure long-term success.
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The International Civil Aviation Organisation (ICAO) recently grouped all the training elements in the organisation together, and held the inaugural ICAO Global Aviation Training and TRAINAIR PLUS Symposium in Dublin, Ireland. Chris Long reports. It is always challenging to pick a suitable venue for a global conference, but Dublin can give claim... 22 July 2015
Chuck Weirauch reports from the recent Heli-Expo conference held in Orlando, Florida, USA. Safety management systems (SMS) and the coming need for helicopter operators to implement them into their safety programs and training manuals, as well as into the company culture, were a major theme at the 2015 Heli-Expo conference held March 2-5... 22 July 2015
“As long as there is a physical path that connects both domains, we can't discard a potential attack.” That’s the conclusion of Ruben Santamarta, Principal Security Consultant at IOActive, a global information security services firm based in Seattle, Washington, US and London, UK. “Avionics should be located in the aircraft control domain,... 22 July 2015
Worldwide statistics show that excursion-related business aviation accidents are up to 60 percent higher than those for commercial aircraft. Chuck Weirauch takes a look at how the industry is incorporating enhanced training to remedy these statistics. While runway excursions are a leading cause of accidents for both commercial and business aviation operations, they... 22 July 2015
As the FAA moves towards NextGen implementation, so do trainers of the air traffic controllers of tomorrow. Robert W. Moorman explores how the US is meeting is trying to meet the demand for more controllers. The FAA faces the daunting challenge of hiring enough air traffic controllers to meet the projected air traffic demand while ensuring... 22 July 2015
SIMULATOR MANUFACTURER Historically the use of hydraulic systems for flight simulation motion platforms has proven to be both highly reliable and cost effective. More recently there has been competition from electric actuator manufacturers which elaborate their attributes. A paper, which is available to view at www.halldale.com/insidesnt/airline on Flight Simulator Motion... 22 April 2015
SOFTWARE Britannica Knowledge Systems is launching two new capabilities, a more advanced optimizer and a bidding module. Both are designed to increase airline and training provider scheduling and planning efficiency. The new rules-based optimizer enables training operations to create valid training schedules and plans that comply with regulatory and contractual... 22 April 2015
ATC TRAINING eyevis and Antycip Simulation have announced the successful completion of their upgrade project for Skyguide, the organisation responsible for air safety in Swiss and adjoining airspaces. The project involved modernising the TOSIM Blue tower simulator, to improve its performance in training situations, through greater resolution, colour depiction and... 22 April 2015
REGULATIONS The European Aviation Safety Agency has published its proposals for the future of the aviation regulatory system. These proposals, presented as an 'EASA Opinion', are the outcome of consultation with stakeholders which started in September 2014. Among others, EASA proposes that when national authorities have a lack of resources... 22 April 2015
FLIGHT SIMULATOR Alsim and Flight Simulator Trader have started a cooperation which has led to a sale of a FNPTII MCC. The device, an AL200 MCC trainer was sold to UAB Aerojet, taking over the device for Akademija Grazdanskoj Aviacii, Kazakhstan, whose subsidiary company Training Center Part-FCL will be the... 22 April 2015
MAINTENANCE TRAINING Signifying Airbus' latest milestone to become even closer to its customers and partners and to support them around the globe Airbus and SIA Engineering Company Limited (SIAEC) have entered into an agreement to provide maintenance and engineering training services for Airbus aircraft in Singapore. Through this collaboration, SIAEC... 22 April 2015
Redbird Flight Simulations of Austin, Texas has announced a key addition to its executive leadership team with the hiring of Michael Clifford as chief operating officer. "Mike's deep management experience in computer technology, logistics, and consumer products from his time as a technology executive with both PepsiCo and Dell Computers... 22 April 2015
CABIN CREW TRAINING Dubai airline Emirates invested about Dh73 million ($19.86 million) in cabin crew training during 2014, which saw a total of 4,280 new cabin crew graduating from Emirates Aviation College (EAC) - Crew Training. The facility has reported a record-breaking year for 2014, with over 33,000 attendees in... 22 April 2015
PILOT TRAINING When CTC Aviation's airline pilot career programme, CTC WINGS was announced in 2003, Thomas Cook Airlines was one of the launch Partner airlines. Between 2003 and 2008 the airline employed 47 of the programme's graduate pilots. Currently operating with a workforce of 2,500 employees from 10 bases, the... 22 April 2015
FLIGHT SIMULATORS TRU Simulation + Training has received purchase orders for three additional full flight simulator (FFS) training suites for the Boeing 737 MAX. The orders are part of the 10-year agreement between Boeing and TRU Simulation + Training. This new order includes three full flight simulators and three desktop... 22 April 2015
PILOT TRAINING Mesa Airlines and ATP Flight School have taken the first step to financially promote the pilot career with ATP's new Tuition Reimbursement Program. In this exclusive agreement, Mesa Airlines will offer ATP's current instructor group of 200 its tuition assistance program, Mesa TAP. In exchange, these pilots will commit... 22 April 2015
SOFTWARE Virgin Atlantic Airways is now using MINT Software Systems' training management system, MINT TMS, for ATQP data collection and electronic grading. The system went live after a very compact implementation time of just over three months. "The readiness of the standard software MINT TMS with its built-in tools for... 22 April 2015
SOFTWARE MINT Software Systems has signed an agreement with Qatar Aeronautical College to implement the MINT system for MPL (Multi-Crew Pilot License) conform training and electronic grading. Qatar Aeronautical College will use the electronic grading and records management functionalities of the MINT system and is the first flight training organization... 22 April 2015
FLIGHT SIMULATOR ADAC HEMS Academy GmbH and Reiser Simulation and Training GmbH are to expand their cooperation towards an EC145T2 Level D full flight simulator for ADAC's unique EMS simulation training facility in Bonn Hangelar, Germany. After kicking off an EC145T2 cockpit procedure trainer in January 2015, going for a... 22 April 2015
CABIN CREW TRAINING RP Aero Systems has been awarded a contract by KLM Royal Dutch Airlines to manufacture and install a Boeing 787 door trainer at their Training Centre in Schiphol Airport. "The door trainer will include all the necessary functions to meet the modern day training needs together with... 22 April 2015