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ARRIVALS & DEPARTURES FlightSafety International has announced that Kyle Davis has been appointed Executive Director, Marketing for the company's business and commercial aviation training activities. Kyle's responsibilities include working with FlightSafety's team of Product Directors to develop new programs, services and solutions that meet the current and future needs of... 21 April 2015
COMPANY NEWS FlightSafety International has announced that it is the first FAR Part 142 training provider to be recognized by the Federal Aviation Administration for meeting its Safety Management System requirements. To achieve this recognition, FlightSafety demonstrated it meets the FAA Flight Standards SMS requirements and the framework established by... 21 April 2015
COMPANY NEWS EvBase Technologies has signed an agreement with NAV CANADA to provide their Flight Operations Department with a fully customized, comprehensive management software package. The software, which will be created and updated in phases over the next five years, will initially focus on the scheduling component for equipment and... 21 April 2015
COMPANY NEWS CPaT, a provider of computer-based training (CBT) for the airline and aviation industries, is opening nine new offices in Asia in conjunction with new exclusive representative agreements with World Airline Training and Services (WATS) and Flight Experience™. These new partners will represent CPaT Global's full line for Airline... 21 April 2015
CABIN CREW TRAINING EDM Limited has delivered and installed an A350 door trainer to Cathay Pacific's cabin crew training centre in Hong Kong. The door trainer comprises fully functional main doors with flight attendant seat and harness, local monuments and EDM standard features including internal normal door operation; emergency opening... 21 April 2015
TRAINING CENTRE Etihad Flight College, based at Al Ain International Airport in the UAE, is now authorised to provide the Multi Crew Pilot Licence (MPL) training program following certification as an Approved Training Organisation (ATO) by the UAE General Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA). A wholly-owned subsidiary of Etihad Airways, Etihad... 21 April 2015
MAINTENANCE Airbus and HAECO Group have entered into a long-term strategic agreement to provide maintenance and engineering training in mainland China and Southeast Asia. HAECO will deploy the ‘Training by Airbus’ standards, dynamic tools and teaching techniques to provide aircraft maintenance training capabilities to its personnel and others in the... 21 April 2015
SOFTWARE Pelesys has signed a number of new contracts recently including renewing and expanding its current service agreement with Air Astana. Currently Pelesys provides Air Astana with its eLearning Training Suite, including courseware and CrewPad, Pelesys' offline training platform. Under its renewed agreement, Pelesys will expand its solution to include... 21 April 2015
FLIGHT SIMULATOR Czech Aviation Training Centre (CATC), a subsidiary of Air Navigation Services of the Czech Republic (ANS CR), has signed an agreement with the Czech aircraft manufacturer Aircraft Industries and CAE to supply a state-of-the-art L 410 simulator. Considering the increasing production of the L 410 from Aircraft Industries... 21 April 2015
HELICOPTER The very first FAA approved Model TH22 piston helicopter by ELITE Simulation Solutions has been purchased by Colorado Heli-Ops, Broomfield, Colorado. According to the Owner/Operator, Mr. Dennis Pierce, "We chose the ELITE TH22 because of its accuracy, versatility and support services. It is fully instrumented with dual controls that... 21 April 2015
FLIGHT SIMULATORS Finmeccanica - AgustaWestland has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with PWN Excellence Sdn Bhd and CAE to evaluate the introduction of both AW169 and AW189 full flight simulators (FFS) in Malaysia. Under the MoU the companies will evaluate the market for AW169 and AW189 helicopters in the... 21 April 2015
HELICOPTER FlightSafety International plans to increase its fleet of advanced helicopter simulators by over 40 percent. Level D qualified simulators to be added include the Bell 407GX, Bell 412 EP-Fast Fin, Airbus AS350 B3, Airbus EC130T2, Airbus EC145, Sikorsky S-76C+/C++, Sikorsky S-76D and Sikorsky S-92. FlightSafety plans to install them... 21 April 2015
PILOT TRAINING CAE and Middle East Airlines - Air Liban have inaugurated the world's first CAE 7000XR Series full flight simulator (FFS) at the Middle East Aviation Academy in Beirut, Lebanon. The Airbus A320 FFS passed the Lebanese Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) acceptance and is now ready for... 21 April 2015
Group Editor Marty Kauchak looks at how the maintenance community is adjusting its learning strategies to support new models of aircraft entering service. This is a professionally challenging but rewarding time to be an airline maintainer. Individuals on the flight line, and in maintenance, repair and overhaul facilities are seeing... 20 April 2015
Chris Long reports from the recent Human Factors Conference held by Lufthansa Flight Training. The importance of human behaviour within aviation, and particularly on the flight deck, has long been recognised. This critical component has never been more closely examined than as a consequence of accidents and incidents, and Lufthansa Flight Training... 20 April 2015
Chuck Weirauch takes an in-depth look at a number of the players in the low cost training market. B-747 Simulator in pristine condition, hybrid six hydraulic actuators, spares, test set - $500,000. This ad placed recently on the Trade-A-Plane Website might be one way a flight training organization could meet the... 20 April 2015
The helicopter accident rate resumed its desired downward trend last year. Significant reasons could be continuous communication, stricter flight rules, and proliferation of newer technology flight simulators and training devices. Rick Adams reports. Credit improved awareness. Credit repeated communication. Credit ever-advancing aircraft technology. Credit new simulation technology and training techniques. 20 April 2015
An Evolution Dim Jones addresses the evolving role of the Barco division, the Frederikstad, Norway, based projectiondesign. Regaining Focus A user judges the fidelity of a simulator by two yardsticks: does it handle and perform like the real aircraft; and does the world outside look as it should? The latter depends crucially on the quality of the projector. Dim Jones reports on organisational changes at Barco to... 20 April 2015
Chris Long reports from the first Asia Pacific Aviation Education and Training Symposium (AAETS) held in Incheon, Republic of Korea. There was a tremendous impact right from the start of this inaugural conference, when a troop of traditional Korean drummers struck up to grab the attention of the conference hall -... 20 April 2015
Following the merger with US Airways, American Airlines is now the largest carrier in the world. Chuck Weirauch investigates their training and simulation expertise. In one of the more remarkable climb outs for the airline industry, American Airlines Group has gone from bankruptcy in 2011 to in March 2015 having its stock join... 20 April 2015