Civil Aviation
7 April 2025 Rick Adams Tanja Schmidt began her role with the International Air Transport Association in September 2024, inheriting a department which manages hundreds of training courses across dozens of airline-related categories. She sat down with Rick Adams to discuss how the role is going and what training changes are coming.
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L-3 Link Simulation & Training’s (L-3 Link) Crawley, UK-based operation has received EASA and FAA Level D certification on a Boeing 787-8 full flight simulator (FFS) installed at the Boeing Training and Flight Services Singapore training campus. In addition to the FFS, L-3 Link UK delivered a flight training device (FTD)... 7 April 2014
PILOT TRAINING Florida Institute of Technology Aviation Programs has joined forces with four European Approved Training Organisations (ATOs) to enhance the university’s pilot training capacity. FIT Aviation LLC, the flight training arm of the university, already has pilot training contracts with clients like Turkish Airlines, serving 135 students. These new... 7 April 2014
PILOT TRAINING Boeing and Hainan Airlines have announced a five-year pilot training agreement to support Hainan's recent introduction of the 787 Dreamliner to its fleet. Under the agreement, Boeing Flight Services will extend the airline's existing contract for flight training at Boeing's Singapore and Shanghai training campuses on three Boeing... 7 April 2014
COMPANY NEWS The Government of Canada is going to participate in a CAE research and development (R&D) program through a repayable investment of $250 million. The goal of CAE's Project Innovate, which will span five and half years, is to develop and expand CAE's current modelling and simulation technologies, develop... 7 April 2014
MAINTENANCE Monarch Aircraft Engineering Limited (MAEL) has launched its apprenticeship scheme for summer 2014. The four year scheme, which began in 1971, has produced over 700 high-calibre engineers for both MAEL and the wider aviation industry. MAEL is offering 20 apprenticeship positions for its summer 2014 intake. Successful applicants will... 7 April 2014
HELICOPTER Rotorsim, owned equally by CAE and AgustaWestland, is continuing to expand with the purchase of two CAE 3000 Series Level D helicopter simulators. Rotorsim will add the world's first-ever AW169 full flight simulator to their Training Centre, which is part of the AgustaWestland 'A. Marchetti' Training Academy in Sesto... 7 April 2014
Pelesys has signed a deal with Logitude Limited of Finland as the exclusive re-seller and service provider of Logitudes ETR - AQP/ATQP solution. "We are very excited to be able to support and offer Logitude's ETR solution to our customers. Integration of the ETR solution along with our Learning Management... 7 April 2014
PILOT TRAINING AA8 Capital Holdings (HK) Limited, Hong Kong Airlines (HKA) and Hong Kong Express Airways (HKEA) have entered into a comprehensive Training Services Agreement whereby HKA and HKEA shall utilise at least 5,000 simulator hours annually for a minimum of 10 years on each of the following simulators that... 7 April 2014
SIMULATORS Frasca International, Inc. has delivered a Diamond DA40 FTD that has received EASA/JAA FNPTII, FAA Level 5 FTD and JCAB Level 5 qualification to CAE Oxford Aviation Academy in Mesa, Arizona. The DA40 is one of several Frasca FTDs in use by the academy and was recently upgraded to... 7 April 2014
TRAINING CENTRES Airbus and Singapore Airlines (SIA) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to establish a fight training joint venture in Singapore. The facility will be called Airbus Asia Training Centre (AATC) and will be 55%-owned by Airbus and 45%-owned by Singapore Airlines. The two parties will initially contribute approximately... 7 April 2014
PILOT TRAINING Bombardier Aerospace has signed a letter of intent (LOI) with Nantong Tongzhou Bay Aviation and FlightSafety International to establish a training centre for pilots of its Q400 NextGen aircraft in Jiangsu, China. Under the LOI, Bombardier would provide planning support for aircraft training activities and FlightSafety International, Bombardier’s... 7 April 2014
PILOT TRAINING ST Aerospace Academy (STAA) has been awarded an extension contract to train another 60 cadet pilots for Xiamen Airlines. Starting from March 2014, the cadets will undergo a three-month intensive English language enhancement training in China, before embarking on a 14-month integrated Commercial Pilot Licence (CPL) programme, certified... 7 April 2014
PILOT TRAINING Baltic Aviation Academy has entered into a partnership with Modern Logistics to provide high-quality flight crew training, in accordance with Modern Logistics’ safety-focused flight crew training program. Baltic Aviation Academy cooperated and worked closely with Modern Logistics to obtain certification by the Brazilian Civil Aviation Authority (ANAC), as... 7 April 2014
PILOT TRAINING CAE Oxford Aviation Academy (CAE OAA) and BBVA have introduced a special loan program to help aspiring pilots in France to fund their pilot training at one of CAE Oxford Aviation Academy's flight schools. Under the partnership with BBVA, candidates who apply to CAE OAA and successfully pass... 7 April 2014
PILOT TRAINING L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) has won a contract from Cathay Pacific to deliver two Airbus A350 full flight simulators (FFS), two pilot transition (PT) trainers, multiple flight management system (FMS) trainers and two brief/debrief stations. This award makes Cathay Pacific the first customer to select... 7 April 2014
TRAINING CENTRES CTC Aviation, in co-operation with Lufthansa Flight Training (LFT), is using the infrastructure of the Airline Training Center Arizona Inc. (ATCA), a 100 percent subsidiary of Lufthansa Flight Training, to launch a new airline pilot training centre in Arizona, USA. CTC Aviation is investing US$7 million to equip... 7 April 2014
AIR TRAFFIC CONTROL The Bulgarian Air Traffic Services Authority, BULATSA, has chosen BEST (Beginning to End for Simulation & Training) to support the development of its training courses and the evolution of its ATC systems. Micro Nav will install large simulator networks in their Sofia control centre during a project... 7 April 2014
MAINTENANCE Qantas has selected 14 graduates from Aviation Australia's aircraft maintenance training program, as apprentices to be based at their Brisbane and Sydney maintenance facilities. 13 of the graduates will commence their apprenticeships at the Brisbane Base Maintenance facility in February, and will complete the practical elements of their apprenticeships... 7 March 2014
L-3 Link Simulation & Training (L-3 Link) has announced the promotion of Alan Crawford to managing director of its Crawley, UK-based operation. In his new leadership role, Mr. Crawford will assume general management responsibilities for the Link UK division, reporting directly to Lenny Genna, president of L-3 Link. Since L-3's... 7 March 2014
Capital Air has purchased an entrol H01 FNPT II simulator, which is based on the Bell 206. This simulator will be installed in South Africa and be used for the CPL/ATPL, IR courses, Safety & Emergency procedures training, NVG training and Bell 206 cockpit familiarization training. The Bell 206 based... 7 March 2014