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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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
EDM is to introduce their new Safety and Emergency Procedure Training Reality Engine (SEPTRE) at WATS 2013. SEPTRE has been designed for use on either fixed or motion based cabin emergency evacuation trainers (CEET's) and is already in service with a significant number of Chinese airlines including Air China, Xiamen... 29 June 2013
Aviation Australia and Hawker Pacific have signed an agreement to formalise their previous Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for a specialised training program in Cairns. The program is intended to provide advanced practical expertise to Aviation Maintenance Engineering (AME) students graduating from the Aviation Australia's International Training Diploma program. The agreement... 29 June 2013
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has teamed with Antipodean Aviation of Australia to offer survival training in emergency water landings for both fixed-wing and rotary-wing aircraft. The course covers pre-flight planning and emergency water landing techniques, as well as escape from a submerged aircraft cabin and sea survival techniques, including life preserver... 29 June 2013
Frasca International Inc. is actively manufacturing and delivering helicopter full flight simulators (FFSs) and flight training devices (FTDs) to customers worldwide. The company has seen a continual increase in helicopter business over the last decade and continues to receive orders for flight training equipment for both civil and military training... 29 June 2013
Mubadala Aerospace has signed an AED 4.9 million agreement with UAE University (UAEU) to train the next generation of Emirati technicians to work at Strata's aircraft composite production facility. The new initiative, with key modules delivered by professional trainers from Lockheed Martin, builds on the success of existing programs, which... 29 June 2013
Boeing has announced that it is to consolidate its flight training capabilities in North America. Chris Long reports. The Boeing Pilot and Technician Outlook is essential reading for those in the global civil aviation training industry. The detailed breakdown of demand and regional trends helps major players to formulate plans... 25 April 2013
Many players in the aviation training industry are adapting rapidly to the challenges of responding to the increasing demands of training the new entrants to commercial aviation. Chris Long reports. The apparently unending growth in demand means that, as the numbers ramp up, development of innovative, effective and efficient ways... 25 April 2013
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