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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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Pegasus Airlines is transforming its document authoring process and compliance management with Comply365’s end-to-end authoring and distribution platform, including its mobile app. 4 May 2023
Kerissa Khan MRAeS has taken over as President of the Royal Aeronautical Society at its Annual General Meeting on 4 May 2023. 4 May 2023
Purdue University postgraduate students have launched Aerovy Mobility, a startup company that commercializes cloud-based software solutions to plan and operate infrastructure that charges electric aircraft with renewable energy. 4 May 2023
entrol has sold an H19 FTD Level 5 simulator based on the AW 109 to Alpha Aviation, a training academy based in Japan. 3 May 2023
RSi Visuals has established its new office in the UK, RSi Europe Ltd. This expansion marks a significant milestone for the company, as it seeks to better serve its worldwide customer base. 3 May 2023
A former Deputy Administrator with both domestic US and international airline experience, as well as involvement in the emerging eVTOL market, is reportedly a leading candidate to be nominated by President Joe Biden to head the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA). 3 May 2023
Merlin Flight Simulation Group’s IT FLIES USA was another closely contested competition this year. Judged by Test Pilots Gary Konnert, Frank Delsing and Aaron Tucker, the competition drew an interesting and varied selection of aircraft designs from university students, which were flown and assessed on The University of Dayton’s MP521 flight simulator. 2 May 2023
MINT Software Systems has released version 2023.1 of MINT TMS, adding general performance improvements and new features like more types of forms available within TMS Web, new preferences for request warning queue calculation, and more. 2 May 2023
Halldale Founder and CEO Andy Smith ponders an inflection point in U.S. airline training, particularly for pilots. 2 May 2023
The new hires will include pilots, flight attendants, aviation maintenance technicians and other support center roles. Spirit is also expanding to new and existing cities, with positions available with Spirit and business partners at airport stations across the network. 28 April 2023
L3Harris Technologies has made a contract expansion with OEMServices to provide pilot training equipment more rapidly with lower logistical costs to airlines and pilot training centers. 28 April 2023
BAA Training and Pegasus Airlines have signed a partnership agreement dedicated to delivering A320 Type Rating services for the airline’s pilots. 28 April 2023
Garuda Indonesia will upgrade its crew planning capabilities and migrate to the newest version of CAE Crew Planner with optimizers that will deliver greater efficiency and cost savings for the airline. 28 April 2023
ATP Flight School and United Airlines are celebrating the milestone of surpassing 300 ATP Airline Career Pilot Program participants in United's Aviate program. 28 April 2023
ICAO’s latest global survey on the status of licensed aviation personnel by gender reveals that the participation of women holding positions as pilots, air traffic controllers, and maintenance technicians has increased on an overall basis from 4.5% globally in 2016, to 4.9% in 2021. 27 April 2023
Joby Aviation has signed a long-term agreement with Toyota to supply key powertrain and actuation components for the production of the company’s all-electric aircraft. 27 April 2023
In quick response to the recently announced changes in European Union Aviation Safety Agency guidelines, Aeroclass has begun offering digital cabin crew training to aviation training organisations. 27 April 2023
Redwings has signed a nonbinding Letter of Intent with Jaunt Air Mobility to purchase Jaunt Journey electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft and launch a strategic collaboration in Mexico. 27 April 2023
Aerotec escuela de pilotos, the Spanish flight school in Cuatro Vientos airport in Madrid, has increased its simulator fleet with an entrol en-1000x FNPT II. 27 April 2023
Aviation publisher Padpilot has launched a Book Bursary to celebrate World Pilots' Day. The bursary initiative offers five complete sets of Padpilot ATPL(A) theory books on Padpilot’s new eReader content platform. 27 April 2023