News
Refine Search
Vocavio Technologies has announced the availability of their vCONNECT plug-in for Pitch Talk, a real-time interface to Pitch Technologies’ simulated radio/intercom software product Pitch Talk. 1 July 2020
Portuguese investigators Gabinete de Prevençäo e Investigaçäo de Acidentes com Aeronaves e de Acidentes Ferroviärios released the final report of the harrowing Air Astana ERJ190LR flight KC1388 accident of 11 November 2018. 1 July 2020
Editor’s Note: Last week, Portuguese investigators GPIAAF (Gabinete de Prevençäo e Investigaçäo de Acidentes com Aeronaves e de Acidentes Ferroviärios) released the final report of the harrowing Air Astana ERJ190LR flight KC1388 accident of 11 November 2018. The plane was on a post-maintenance flight, carrying three Air Astana pilots and three technicians from the operator.
Shortly after takeoff from Alverca do Ribatejo airbase, Portugal, the regional jet became uncontrollable. The pilots not only issued a distress signal, fighter aircraft were scrambled to escort them to the sea, where the Air Astana crew anticipated ditching their plane.
This exclusive narrative is from a detailed conversation CAT Europe Editor Chris Long had with the Air Astana flight crew, presenting their in-the-cockpit perspective.
The first that Captain Vyacheslav Aushev learnt of the task was whilst he was in another aircraft, having arrived in Almaty, Kazakhstan, where he was instructed to call crew control during checkout. He was then advised that he was planned to collect an Embraer 190 from the military airport at Alverca, near Lisbon, and return it via a refuelling stop at Minsk, Belarus, to the home base at Nur Sultan, Kazakhstan’s capital. This with no fare-paying passengers, but with three maintenance engineers returning to base. The aircraft was due out of a “C” maintenance check but, because of repeated delays totalling 11 days, the original aircraft captain was no longer able to take the flight, hence the short notice. 1 July 2020
RGB Spectrum announced the addition of CrossPoint KVM-over-IP to its product portfolio. 30 June 2020
PLEXSYS recently revealed Launch Control 2.5. This software was created to allow a single user to quickly configure and start an entire software session, with dozens of workstations, running multiple applications, from one central location. 30 June 2020
Registration is now open for BbWorld 2020, a free, virtual event for training and development professionals. 30 June 2020
Britannica Knowledge Systems has announced the award of a $70 million contract to supply its Fox Training Management System to the US Army, as part of the ATIS (Army Training Information System) program. 30 June 2020
A new £4.5m scheme to support the retention of essential skills during and after the COVID-19 crisis has been launched by the ECITB (Engineering Construction Industry Training Board). 30 June 2020
NATO exercise Dynamic Mongoose started in the High North on 29 June 2020. 30 June 2020
Turboprop manufacturer ATR and Australia’s biggest independent airline Regional Express (REX) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate in studying optimised solutions for the replacement and modernisation of its fleet. 30 June 2020
In January 2020 SIMAERO was selected by Chongqing Yuxiang Aviation Flight Training to relocate its Boeing 737NG FFS simulator from Urumqi to Zhengzhou. 30 June 2020
To get a better understanding of how South Africa’s flight training providers are faring, Alsim Simulators’ export manager, Mr. Nicolas de Lassus, spoke to Attie Niemann, CEO of 43 Air School. 30 June 2020
