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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
Airbus has relocated an A330/A340 CAE FSTD Standard 2.4 from its Toulouse, France, facility to the Airbus Miami Training center. The simulator was qualified Level D by the FAA and EASA and was also updated with the latest CAE Tropos system. The Airbus Miami training center has updated its two Thales... 29 June 2013
The ATR full flight simulator for the ATR 42-300 and 72-500, located in the Farnair Training Centre near Vienna and Bratislava, has been fully certified by the Federal Air Transport Agency (FATA), part of the Ministry of Transportation of the Russian Federation. The ATR 42-300 and 72-500 FFS has received... 29 June 2013
Sim-Industries has opened its first South American flight training facility in Brazil. The Sim-Industries Brasil São Paulo Training Center provides academic and simulator instruction. Pilots from GOL Linhas Aéreas Inteligentes will begin their academic training on the Boeing 737 and will progress to two dedicated simulators. The facility has capacity... 29 June 2013
FlightSafety International plans to offer training for the Bombardier Challenger 605 aircraft at its Greater Philadelphia/Wilmington Learning Center beginning in April, following the FFS’s Level D qualification by the FAA and EASA. 29 June 2013
PrivatAir has signed a contract with Saudia Private Aviation (SPA) that will encompass training SPA's existing cabin crew as well as coaching in specific areas of on-board service. The first group of SPA's 20 cabin crew are scheduled to commence their VVIP service training with PrivatAir in early April 2013,... 29 June 2013
International Flight Training Center (IFTC) has begun construction on the flight training industry's first 'self-supporting' cabin trainer facility in Antalya, Turkey. A modular building will house a Boeing 737 cabin trainer and will be powered by solar energy. It will feature LED lighting and environmentally friendly cooling and heating systems. 29 June 2013
Qatar Airways has turned to Baltic Aviation Academy for the recruitment of new cabin crew members from Baltic states. The initial assessment, gathering participants from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Poland, during which 100 finalists will be selected, was conducted in February, in Vilnius, Lithuania. The one hundred selected candidates will... 29 June 2013
Aerosim has announced an agreement with Flybe Training Academy for an Embraer 170/190 and Dash 8 Q400 convertible Aerosim Virtual Procedure Trainer (VPT). This will be Aerosim's first procedure training device that will have the ability to convert between two different aircraft types. Flybe will also receive Aerosim's Virtual Flight... 29 June 2013
The highly-successful University Gateway Program, a four-way collaboration with JetBlue Airways, Cape Air, the University of North Dakota (UND) and Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (ERAU), has added another airline. Atlanta-based ExpressJet Airlines will partner with Cape Air to provide a parallel path for aspiring pilots to join JetBlue. The Gateway Program... 29 June 2013
This fall, students in Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University's flight programs in Daytona Beach, Florida, and Prescott, Arizona, will receive training in motion-based full flight simulators in preparation for new FAA training requirements. In Daytona Beach, students will be trained in a full motion simulator from FlightSafety International in the campus' Advanced... 29 June 2013
CTC Aviation Group (CTC) will be delivering a new airline pilot training programme exclusively for Indian students. Chief executive officer Rob Clarke announced the program during a UK Government market visit led by Prime Minister David Cameron to India. “We are actively engaged with a number of Indian airlines to... 29 June 2013
Boeing and Singapore-based SilkAir have announced a five-year exclusive pilot training agreement which will support SilkAir's fleet transition to Boeing airplanes. Boeing Flight Services will provide flight training at Boeing's Singapore training campus for the airline's new 737 fleet. 29 June 2013
Baltic Aviation Academy (Lithuania) has signed a partnership agreement with Aviacom Inc., one of the leading providers of general aviation flight simulators in India, as its representative for the Indian subcontinent. EASA approved training courses proposed for the Indian market include Airline Transport Pilot License (ATPL) courses, type rating training,... 29 June 2013