Civil Aviation
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 German software provider MINT Software Solutions has signed a service agreement for the delivery of its comprehensive training management solution MINT TMS to eight airlines that are part of the southern American Avianca Holdings S.A. MINT TMS will be used as an AQP Training System for flight crew, flight... 31 August 2014
Stapleford Flight Centre has purchased an Alsim ALX flight simulator in order to enhance its training efficiency. Stapleford Flight Centre already has three Alsim simulators: two AL200 DA42 and one AL200 MCC. This last one has been repurchased by Alsim for a new ZLX, as part of Alsim's 20th anniversary... 31 August 2014
Aerosim Flight Academy, an accredited global flight school, is helping Republic Airlines fulfil its need for new first officer pilots via its Airline Pilot Pathway Program, which ensures graduates meet the airlines’ hiring requirements and have access to a professional aviation career. The program is designed to ensure pilots’ successful... 31 August 2014
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has become the first training provider in the US to receive approval from the FAA for its ATP Certification Training Program (CTP). With the completion of an FAA-approved aviation degree program from Embry-Riddle, graduates are also eligible to receive the newly created Restricted ATP certification after 1,000... 31 August 2014
Following a public procurement procedure and subsequent invitation to tender distributed in December 2013, Serbia and Montenegro Air Traffic Services (SMATSA) have selected Micro Nav to supply their BEST 2D/3D tower simulator. The tower simulator consists of three controller workstations, a 12 channel LCD based 3D display, four pseudo pilot... 31 August 2014
ANA (All Nippon Airlines) will implement Britannica Knowledge System's Fox training management platform as its new holistic solution for optimizing its training operations. Major system components that ANA's Flight Operations Center will employ include training resource and scheduling management, qualification management (based on the AQP approach), grading (online and offline... 31 August 2014
FSTC (Flight Simulation Technique Centre) has received EASA approval for its Airbus A320 simulator, making it the only pilot training centre in the north India region to have this approval. FSTC is a joint venture company with SIM Industries BV, Netherlands, a Lockheed Martin company, and it has the latest... 31 August 2014
Etihad Airways has awarded a US$14 million contract to Spatial Composite Solutions, the UAE-based manufacturer of crew training equipment. Under the contract, Spatial will design and manufacture a total of 14 cabin crew training devices, including Airbus A380 and Boeing 787 Dreamliner models, to the latest Etihad Airways specifications and... 31 August 2014
Multi Pilot Simulations BV (MPS) has appointed Erik Jennes MSc as chief executive officer. Erik succeeds Dick Verburg, the company's founder and CEO for seven years, who will continue as president of MPS. Erik brings extensive commercial and general management experience working for multinationals including AT&T and Philips, as well... 31 August 2014
Peter Niemy has joined the Pelesys team as Global Sales Director. In his new role, Peter will lead and manage all global sales and business development opportunities for Pelesys. "We are very excited that Peter has decided to join the Pelesys team. He brings over 30 years of commercial aviation... 31 August 2014
Virgin America has appointed Brad Thomann as vice president - Flight Operations. Thomann, who has over 30 years of experience in civil and military aviation, will oversee the California-based airline's technical and administrative Flight Operations functions including Flight Training, Flight Operations Engineering, Flight Standards, Flight Crew Communications, Flight Crew Resources... 31 August 2014
The School of Engineering at The University of Manchester has recently taken delivery of new simulation equipment from UK company, Merlin Products Ltd. Such has been the popularity of aircraft simulation with the Manchester Aero Engineering students that the installation of the new simulators will ensure that maximum use may... 31 August 2014
E2M Technologies has reached an agreement with CAE Inc. regarding delivery of their electric motion systems to be used in CAE's Level D full flight simulator products. The agreement marks the establishment of E2M Technologies as one of the few suppliers in the world capable of delivering systems with the... 31 August 2014
Indra has completed the development of the iCAT, a new training system for pilots of the Airbus A320. The first two units of this training solution have been delivered to Beijing Capital Airlines. These systems will be installed at the training centers owned by the Chinese airline in Beijing and... 31 August 2014
TRU Simulation + Training is to provide an Airbus A320 FFS X™ full flight simulator (FFS) to Ansett Aviation Training. Delivery of the FFS to Ansett's Tullamarine training facility in Melbourne, Australia is expected during the fourth quarter of 2014. The A320 FFS X will join Ansett's existing fleet of... 31 August 2014
Chris Long previews the new APATS Aviation Education and Training Symposium which will be taking place in February 2015. Although abstracts are still arriving, there are already plenty of impressive presentations to enable us to see the shape of the APATS Aviation Education and Training Symposium (AAETS), which will be... 31 August 2014
Once again the Asian civil aviation training world has beaten a path to Bangkok for the Asia Pacific Aviation Training Symposium (APATS). This 2014 event was marked by yet another significant increase in the number of airlines attending - up from 36 last year to 47 this time - and,... 31 August 2014
Chris Long reports on training provider CTC Aviation’s operations. There is no reason to doubt the Boeing forecasts which predict demand for a very large number of pilots over the next 20 years. There will always be challenges to pilot training - getting the numbers of new entries is itself... 31 August 2014
Chris Long takes a look at Strata Manufacturing PJSC, based in Al Ain, which employs mostly highly skilled women on the production line. The most visible benefit of commercial aviation is, of course, in the explosion of travelling opportunities for a growing proportion of the world population. Alongside that, the... 31 August 2014
Aerosim Flight Academy in Florida, as well as Coast Aviation and Sierra Academy in California, will offer Boeing's new ab initio Pilot Development Program to airlines through the flight schools' partnerships with Boeing subsidiary Jeppesen. While the program is initially aimed at airlines in regions such as Asia and the... 31 August 2014