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31 March 2025 Penny McGrigor Tucked away in the heart of Gloucestershire, surrounded by rolling green fields and the quiet hum of light aircraft, the Wings for Warriors Flight School sits as a powerful symbol of possibility, resilience, and renewal.
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Following our highly successful CAT Leader Forum - Skills Decay webinar held on 7th April 2021, we are pleased to share the executive summary. 22 April 2021
Naveed Kapadia, Founder and Director of aviation business and management consultancy INQUISITIF, examines the challenge of extended absence from the cockpit. 19 April 2021
CATI Training Systems (CATI) have completed a major visual system upgrade of the NUH-60FS Black Hawk Flight Simulator for the United States Army Aeromedical Research Laboratory (USAARL) at Fort Rucker, AL. 14 April 2021
A select group of stakeholders explored pilot skill decay at the first CAT Leader Forum Workshop. Capt. Jacques Drappier provides a report on the findings of the group discussion. 8 April 2021
We kicked off our new CAT Leader Forum series with a webinar discussion about pilot skills decay. With endorsement from Resilient Pilot, our expert panel offered valuable insight, and a combined, evidence-based view of the impact of Covid-19 on Pilot Skill Fade.
1 April 2021
Instructors need standards… and the ability to adapt their teaching methods – for pilots returning from furlough, for different learning styles, and for new instructional media. Regional airline training veteran Paul Preidecker shares his experienced opinions on expectations of flight instructors. 22 March 2021
We are pleased to unveil our cabin crew conference programme for The 2021 World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) from June 15-16 in Orlando, FL, USA, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort.
WATS addresses the current and future training issues affecting your business, from personnel selection and recruitment, to regulation and training technologies. It offers unrivalled opportunities to meet with the key decision makers and influencers within the international airline training community, and allows attendees to discuss the latest training technologies and techniques to improve operational safety and efficiency for pilot, cabin crew, and maintenance training.
Be sure to register your attendance as we move ‘Forward Together’. 17 March 2021
We are pleased to unveil our pilot conference programme for the 2021 World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) from June 15-16 in Orlando, FL, USA, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort.
WATS addresses the current and future training issues affecting your business, from personnel selection and recruitment, to regulation and training technologies. It offers unrivalled opportunities to meet with the key decision makers and influencers within the international airline training community, and allows attendees to discuss the latest training technologies and techniques to improve operational safety and efficiency for pilot, cabin crew, and maintenance training.
Be sure to register your attendance as we move ‘Forward Together’.
17 March 2021
Standard Operating Procedures or SOPs are used widely across safety critical organisations to capture safe practices and to guide operatives. SCT’s Mario Pierobon reports on SOP development and usage best practice. 17 March 2021
Atlanta-based Delta Air Lines plans to have a full roster of pilots by October, according to a memo from flight operations management. 12 March 2021
To help design aircraft that can better maneuver in extreme situations, Purdue University researchers have developed a model to simulate vortex collisions. 25 January 2021
Lufthansa Technical Training has for years been a leader in training aircraft maintenance technicians to work for Lufthansa Technik, the MRO division of Lufthansa, and other airlines. CAT’s Robert W. Moorman interviewed Harald Schween, Head of Sales, Key Account Management and Marketing at LTT. 25 January 2021
Southwest Airlines Co. is launching an additional training curriculum to bring greater awareness to the global problem of human trafficking. 21 January 2021
CAE is partnering with The LOSA Collaborative to enhance its evidence-based training offering. 19 January 2021
OSF HealthCare and the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Peoria, collaborated with Northwestern University on a $750,000 grant from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. 18 January 2021
Micro Nav has been shortlisted for the 2020 ATM Awards in the category of Enabling Technology, which recognises a significant contribution to enhance capacity and/or increase safety. 13 January 2021
It's good to report it has been a busy time, with our Global Airline Training & Simulation - Virtual event taking off in November. CAT Editor-in-Chief Rick Adams, FRAeS, picks out his highlights from the three-day event and discusses why he feels positive about the future in our new Halldale feature titled Rick's Picks. 30 November 2020
Federal Aviation Administration Administrator Steve Dickson signed an order that paves the way for the Boeing 737 MAX to return to commercial service. 18 November 2020
Global Airline Training & Simulation – Virtual was 'on air' for more than 45 hours – 15 consecutive hours each day, from morning in Europe to early evening in North America. 17 November 2020
If Day One was the appetizer of the Global Airline Training & Simulation – Virtual conference, Day Two was meat and potatoes. 12 November 2020