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American Airlines awarded $337K from its American’s Flight Education Grant program to 17 aviation-focused schools and organizations in the U.S. that are dedicated to training the next generation of aviators. The grants range from $5,000 to $25,000 and many of the receiving organizations will assist low-income and minority students. They... 15 October 2018
TRU Simulation + Training, a Textron company, and FlightSafety International plan to form a joint venture to provide a training solution for Textron Aviation‘s broad product line of business and general aviation aircraft. TRU and FlightSafety will combine their assets and capabilities, including their simulators, courseware and teams, to support... 15 October 2018
FlightSafety International named David Davenport and Ray Johns the company’s new Co-CEOs, succeeding Bruce Whitman, who passed away October 10, 2018. Davenport will also serve as President, Commercial, and Ray as President, Government and Manufacturing. In addition to serving as Co-CEOs, Davenport will continue to oversee all aspects of... 15 October 2018
FlightSafety International and the University of Southern California, Los Angeles entered an agreement to provide a comprehensive series of courses for aircraft maintenance department managers. The courses include Human Factors in Maintenance, Human Factors in Aviation Safety, Aviation Safety Management Systems, Gas Turbine Accident Investigation, Helicopter Accident Investigation, Aircraft... 15 October 2018
KLM UK Engineering, a provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for regional and narrow body aircraft, acquired European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) Part 147 approval to offer training courses for the Boeing 737 MAX aircraft. KLM Head of Technical Training, Ray Flower says the approval was a natural progression... 12 October 2018
The University at Buffalo (UB) School of Nursing and School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences built an escape room game for inter-professional training between nursing and pharmacy students to improve teamwork and communication. In the Patient X escape room that simulates a medical clinic, students will have 30 minutes to... 12 October 2018
Engineering & Computer Simulations (ECS) promoted Jeffrey Huber to Vice President of Operations for its Huntsville, Alabama office. Huber is a retired U.S. Army pilot with more than 24 years of aviation leadership; he joined ECS in 2017 as the Director of Operations. Huber is a subject-matter expert on the... 12 October 2018
SkyArt, a supplier of custom cabin crew training devices made from old airplane cabin interiors, installed a Boeing B77-200 special-purpose cabin trainer in Almaty, Kazakhstan for the U.S. Department of State. It will be used in the Kazakhstan Border Guard Service Cadet Training Program that is sponsored by the U.S. 12 October 2018
Saab received an order from the General Tadeusz Kosciuszko Military University of Land Forces (AWL) in Wroclaw, Poland to expand its GAMER laser-based training capability (LSS) with a new Laser Tactical Simulator (LTS) system. The LTS will help AWL increase the functionalities of its current GAMER live training system and... 12 October 2018
Alsim opened a joint Alsim/Cirrus Aviation demonstration center and simulation lab that will include Alsim’s AL172 and AL250 simulators at the Sarasota Bradenton International Airport in Sarasota, Florida. “It’s important to have a place where prospective clients can come and spend hours touching, feeling and flying, not just one, but multiple... 11 October 2018
Bruce Whitman, Chairman, President & CEO of FlightSafety International, passed away on October 10, 2018 at the age of 85. FlightSafety says Whitman will be remembered with great admiration and affection. He was highly-respected and held in the utmost regard by those in the company and the industry. Whitman joined... 11 October 2018
TraumaFX, a division of Kforce Government Solutions Inc. and a provider of ruggedized human and canine medical training simulators, delivered its first phase of shipments for its Tactical Combat Casualty Care – Exportable (TC3X) medical simulators to the U.S. Army’s Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI)... 11 October 2018
