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Mass Virtual has been awarded a five-year, $59 million firm-fixed-price requirements contract to provide virtual training in partnership with the U.S. Air Force Integrated Technology Platform. 1 October 2020
Construction is underway on ATP Flight School's advanced flight training center at the Arlington Municipal Airport in Arlington, Texas. 1 October 2020
Serious Labs has entered into a partnership with the Alberta Construction Training Institute and the Building Trades of Alberta to pilot a Mobile Elevated Work Platform operator certification program. 1 October 2020
Russian S-300 Surface-to-Air Missile anti-aircraft crews recently concluded live air defence exercises aimed an engaging long range targets. 1 October 2020
The Indian Coast Guard will soon have its own training academy, with the Ministry of Defence recently having taken over 158 acres for the purpose. 30 September 2020
J.F. Taylor has awarded the DiSTI Corporation a contract to support the development of the Part Task Trainer for the Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle within the U.S. Army’s Family of Maintenance Trainers program. 30 September 2020
The Pandemic Recovery Agreement prevents any pilot from being laid-off until June of 2021. However, pilots will work fewer hours and make less money. 30 September 2020
infoWERK has signed a deal with Stuttgart, Germany-based E-Aviation (Eisele Flugdienst GmbH) for numerous e-learning courses for its Flight and Cabin Crew. 30 September 2020
CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, talks with Kit Darby, one of the leading experts on professional pilot careers about the state of the North American aviation market - recovery, retirements, furloughs, pay packages, and advice for moving to the head of the queue when hiring restarts (perhaps sooner than you think). The third section of this five-part series is on Aircraft Utilization, Pilot Work Schedules, and Pilot Demand.
Kit addresses the effects of aircraft utilization, pilot workload, and pilots-to-aircraft ratios in determining pilot staffing requirements. 30 September 2020
Kongsberg Digital has developed cloud-based simulation technology to support advanced operational studies, research and education in the maritime industry. 30 September 2020
CPaT Global has added an Aircraft Procedures suite to its library of courseware. 29 September 2020
The accession pipeline in the US for new pilots, increasingly dependent on learning technologies, is being restored, and none too soon, as a pilot shortage is eyed toward the mid-part of this decade. Marty Kauchak reports.
Civil aviation remains on a turbulent path in the attempt to return to pre-Covid-19 operating levels. With lackluster passenger demand and the unsteady pace of restoring domestic and international routes, the industry is no longer facing the pilot shortage with which it was grappling just a few months ago. Reopened flight training programs, which increasingly rely on distance learning and other technologies to help select and retain aspiring pilots, are part of the strategy to help minimize a predicted next pilot shortage for later this decade.
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