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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Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) has signed an agreement with the Australian College of Kuwait (ACK) to provide EASA CAT B1.1 and EASA CAT B2 training concepts for ACT's basic training program. LTT will run train-the-trainer courses in Kuwait and provide access to web- and computer-based training media. LTT will also support... 29 July 2013
Airbus and Thai Airways International have signed a Maintenance Training Collaboration agreement to develop a long term strategic partnership. Thai will become Airbus' local maintenance training centre in the region and will initially provide maintenance type-training capabilities for A320 and A330. Airbus will work with Thai to achieve full EASA... 29 July 2013
Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL) has launched its apprenticeship scheme for summer 2013. This year, the initial training phase will be carried out at the newly opened Monarch Aircraft Engineering Training Academy (MAETA) at London Luton Airport from where individuals will then relocate to MAEL's London Luton, Birmingham and Manchester... 29 July 2013
Thales has been selected by the Civil Aviation Authority of Cyprus and Cyta, the leading provider of integrated electronic communication services in Cyprus, for the modernisation of the country's air traffic management system. In the frame of this contract, Thales will supply the associated simulator. With TopSky - Simulation, the... 29 July 2013
A group of air traffic control students from Saudi Arabia are rating in their home country, just four months after completing ab initio training at Airways Training Centre in New Zealand. The students, from Saudi Arabia's General Authority for Civil Aviation (GACA) completed their Airways training in July last year... 29 July 2013
ASTech's GEMS Online Exam has been cleared by the National Aviation Authority of Germany (LBA) and is now being used by ASTech's long-term customer Lufthansa Technical Training (LTT) at their training sites in Hamburg and Frankfurt. The system was also introduced to training managers of Part-147 training organisations or airlines,... 29 July 2013
FARNAIR Training has developed an online training tool for the ATR 42-300 and ATR 72-500 types. Parts of this MBT (Multimedia Based Training) are now published every month, free of charge, so anybody interested can make use of it without any limitations or obligations. A new ATR Cold Weather Operations... 29 July 2013
Pelesys has signed deals with Nigerian-based Arik Air and Air Greenland for aviation courseware. Arik Air has purchased B737NG, A330 and A340 e-learning type rating courses and Air Greenland will be provided with an integrated Learning Management System and an Exam and Assessment Generation System to manage their pilot training. 29 July 2013
Avsoft is now providing courseware to DAC Aviation, Skies Aviation of Sweden and First Air of Canada. All the contracts provide access to Avsoft’s flexible Block Hour Licensing (BHL) program that allows airlines and training organizations to instruct hundreds of pilots for one hourly rate. 29 July 2013
Indra is to supply two new EC225 transport helicopter simulators to Eurocopter. The systems will be implemented in the training centres of the aircraft manufacturer in Malaysia and Brazil. The databases of the EC225 training systems will include real scenarios with the coastlines and airfields of each country. ... 29 July 2013
FlightSafety International’s Eurocopter EC135 Level-D qualified full flight simulator, located at its Dallas Learning Center, has received Night Vision Goggle qualification from the FAA. This is the first qualification of its type under the National Simulator Program’s Guidance Bulletin 10-01. FlightSafety’s NVG training courses for the EC135 provide in-depth instruction... 29 July 2013
Rotorsim has had its CAE 3000 Series AW139 full flight simulator (FFS) certified to Level D by the ENAC (the Italian Civil Aviation Authority). The new AW139 FFS was jointly developed by AgustaWestland and CAE and it is the third for Rotorsim and the second located at the AgustaWestland Training... 29 July 2013
A TCAS will soon be available for Alsim’s jet simulators. The company has enhanced the traffic generation system on the Instructor Station to be able to specify traffic relative course and altitude. A TAS, Traffic Advisory System, will be available for bi piston flight models. Weather radar is also in... 29 July 2013
CAE has won a series of long-term commercial training and services contracts, including seven full flight simulators, training devices and update services, worth more than C$300 million. A 10-year contract has been signed with LAN and TAM Airlines to be conducted at CAE training centres in Santiago, Chile; Sao Paulo,... 29 July 2013
Mechtronix is delivering a Cessna Citation CJ1 full flight simulator (FFS X™) and two full flight trainers (FFT™) to the Civil Aviation Flight University of China (CAFUC). With the new order, CAFUC will operate three CJ1 FFS and three CJ1 FFT devices needed to meet an increased demand in training... 29 July 2013
projectiondesign® has delivered three additional F22 projectors to Dutch-based technology manufacturer MPS (Multi Pilot Simulations) for use in its newest FTSD (flight simulation training device)-qualified Airbus A320 flight simulator. The standard MPS FSTD comes with a high-end RSI Visual Systems Raster XT4 image generator and a direct projection screen with... 29 July 2013
L-3 Link Simulation & Training's (L-3 Link) Crawley, UK-based operation has completed the updating of a Lufthansa Flight Training A380 full flight simulator to the latest Airbus 1.3 product baseline. In addition, the Luftfahrt-Bundesamt, Germany's national civil aviation authority, has recertified the A380 FFS to support pilot training at the... 29 July 2013
Pan Am International Flight Academy has installed a new Boeing 777 Level D full motion simulator at its Miami academy headquarters at the Miami International Airport. This B777 simulator has enhanced definition visual systems using satellite imagery and sophisticated weather and lighting effects to create highly realistic training scenarios for... 29 July 2013
L-3 Link Simulation & Training's (L-3 Link) full flight simulator (FFS) for the SSJ100 aircraft, installed at the SuperJet International (SJI) Training Center in Venice (Italy), has been certified Level D by EASA and is now Ready For Training. It is the first simulator for a Russian civil aircraft that... 29 July 2013
FlightSafety International will install its third Gulfstream G650 full flight simulator at its Learning Center in Long Beach, California, in early 2014. The program features MATRIX, FlightSafety’s integrated training system and includes a variety of pre-study and classroom materials that can be loaded onto an iPad, allowing customers to review... 29 June 2013