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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Dr. C. Hall “Skip” Jones discusses how a properly conceived and designed distance learning program can be an asset to any aviation training organization. You are responsible for an aviation training operation that provides both academic and simulator training. The current training scenario at your facility probably looks something like... 25 April 2013
Chris Long provides an update on Turkish Airlines training and simulation capabilities. In recent years the rapid expansion of the airlines in the Gulf and Asia has been promoted largely through the media coverage of the big-number aircraft orders from those regions. The commercial centre of gravity of aviation is... 25 April 2013
Group editor Marty Kauchak highlights developments in the training programs designed to prepare federal air marshals and flight attendants to maintain a secure flight cabin environment. The flight cabin remains a dynamic, challenging security environment. The lack of civility in our society has migrated onto commercial aircraft, where incidents of... 25 April 2013
What’s a solution to more congested airspace and pilot information overload? How about simulation in the cockpit? Rick Adams reports. Simulation for commercial aviation seems to be coming full circle. The original objective of modeling and simulation was to replicate the real world as faithfully as possible to provide a... 25 April 2013
Chuck Weirauch takes a look at the unique training challenges facing US regional airlines while complying with new aviation law. With the clock ticking towards August 2, 2013, when the sections of Public Law 111-216 that require airline first officers to have become ATP certified and accrue 1,500 hours of... 25 April 2013
Chris Long journeys east to investigate the training and simulation expertise of Japan’s largest airline. As Yong Choi, Supervisor Flight Crew Standards indicates, the first time All Nippon Airways operated under that name was in 1957, when it started to service the domestic market of some 123 million people; international... 25 April 2013
Eric Hinson has been appointed as president of SimCom Training Centers. Hinson, who will report directly to Wally David, the company's chief executive officer, will oversee and direct the activities of SimCom's four training center locations and 56 operational simulators. 24 March 2013
Robert (Rob) Lewis has been named vice president and general manager of CAE’s global Business Aviation, Helicopter and Maintenance Training business unit. 24 March 2013
David Rushton has been appointed as Commercial Marketing Manager, Visual Simulation Systems. His main responsibilities are to identify and pursue new business opportunities for FlightSafety's visual simulation systems among commercial airlines. Jim Christiansen has joined as vice president, International Business Development. He will lead the company’s efforts to increase customer... 24 March 2013
Rudolf Schmid has been appointed as Swiss AviationTraining's new Director of Quality & Project Management. He succeeds Karl Spirig, who, after several years' service in the post and on Swiss AviationTraining's top management, retired at the end of January. 24 March 2013
The Halldale Group has announced the appointment of David Lim as a Director for the Asia Pacific region, based in Singapore. David will take on responsibility for regional sales of simulation and training media and events for healthcare, defence and aerospace. He has 16 years’ experience in sales, marketing and... 24 March 2013
Barco has signed a Service Partnership Agreement with ST Electronics (Training & Simulation Systems) in Singapore to provide first-level support services for Barco’s Training & Simulation products in the Southeast Asia region. As Barco’s Training & Simulation business is growing rapidly across the Southeast Asia region, the company has decided... 24 March 2013
In 2013, ICAO, with the cooperation of Member States, will organize regional symposia which will be generously hosted by civil aviation authorities and TRAINAIR PLUS members. The regional symposia will build on the success of the Next Generation of Aviation Professionals (NGAP) and TRAINAIR PLUS Regional Conferences, held in 2011,... 24 March 2013
WestJet Encore, the new regional subsidiary of WestJet, will work with New Zealand's merlot.aero to launch the first true cloud-based airline operations management system in 2013. The merlot.aero system is the first fully cloud-based airline operations management system designed specifically for the airline industry. It combines the power of the... 24 March 2013
The National Air Transportation Association (NATA) has announced the addition of Aircraft Flight Coordinator Training (AFCT) to its comprehensive online training programs. The AFCT is a certificate program that provides core flight coordinator knowledge with an emphasis on safety and technical expertise to assist crews with in-depth flight planning. The... 24 March 2013
MINT Software Systems and ASTech have agreed to collaborate on the development of an interface between MINT’s TMS and ASTech’s GEMS. MINT TMS is a Compliance & Training Management System for record keeping, as well as scheduling pilot, cabin crew, technical and air navigation service training activities. GEMS (General Examination... 24 March 2013
Iceland Air has purchased Avsoft’s B737NG Aircraft Systems Course for maintenance personnel, taking advantage of its flexible Block Hour Licensing (BHL) program that allows airlines and training organizations to instruct hundreds of pilots for one hourly rate. BHL comes with free customization and access to Avsoft’s library of aircraft system... 24 March 2013
Hellenic Air Training Services has purchased Avsoft’s B737 Classic (B737-300/400/500) Aircraft Systems Courseware. The Aircraft Systems Courseware, in conjunction the new ICE Suite package, lets users set course qualification and recurrent due date; tag course pages to create recurrent ground school modules; modify a course’s content – including graphics and... 24 March 2013
Didavia Aviation Academy based in Athens, Greece, has expanded its library of Avsoft’s CBT/WBT courseware with the purchase of the new general subject matter course, Low Visibility Operations. 24 March 2013
South Africa's Air Traffic and Navigation Services (ATNS) has won the International Air Transport Association (IATA) Worldwide Top Regional Training Partner award for the second consecutive year. The award celebrated the academy's achievements in human capital development within the air transport industry in 2012. The group, which has trained more... 24 March 2013