Category Archives: Training and Recruitment

Coptersafety, a Finnish helicopter training center in Helsinki, will use MINT TMS, a web-based training management system. MINT TMS allows instructors and trainees online access to their training schedules, electronic grading forms, reports, learning materials, and other training-related data. It simplifies the management of instructor allocation, classroom distribution and the planning and optimized flight simulatorRead More

CAE USA recently achieved the AS9100 certification for its quality management system.  AS9100 is the International Quality Management System standard specifically for the Aerospace and Defense industry. The AS9100 quality standard provides suppliers with rigid requirements for creating and maintaining a comprehensive quality management system that helps ensure the provision of safe and reliable productsRead More

BAA Training Vietnam, announces expanding their training equipment. A state-of-the-art Airbus A320neo full flight simulator has been assembled and approved by Civil Aviation Administration of Vietnam (CAAV) to provide pilot training in Vietnam. A modern 3000-square-metre training center opened doors in September of 2019 and with their first Airbus A320ceo full flight simulator started toRead More

Low-fare carrier Frontier Airlines has opened its new 11,000-square-foot flight attendant recurrent training center in Orlando, Florida, and has been approved by the Greater Orlando Aviation Authority for its plans to build a 35,000-square-foot hangar at Orlando International Airport (MCO). The $10 million maintenance hangar will include indoor parking for Frontier’s largest aircraft, the AirbusRead More

CAE recently announced it has signed a contract amendment with the NATO Airborne Early Warning & Control Program Management Agency (NAPMA) to perform avionics updates on the E-3A flight deck simulator and E-3A flight training device located at NATO Airbase Geilenkirchen in Germany. The avionics updates to the training devices relate to the latest standardsRead More

Etihad Aviation Training, the specialist training division of Etihad Aviation Group, has become the first aviation company in the Middle East to gain approval from the European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to train Boeing 777 and 787 pilots for European operators and carriers elsewhere which adopt Europe’s air safety standards. The approval to train pilotsRead More

Latvian flight school Eriva Pilotu Skola has moved into the cloud by signing up for FlightLogger’s flight training management platform. With FlightLogger, Eriva Pilotu Skola can digitally handle activities such as flight programs, ground school theory, bookings, flight registrations and maintenance, as well as certificate management, document management, and message management. Eriva Pilotu Skola, anRead More

Sinclair Community College has big plans in the works to develop an aviation training center at the Dayton International Airport. “PSA is in desperate need of additional aviation maintenance personnel,” says Clay Pittman, the chair of the Aviation Technology Department at Sinclair. Sinclair is hoping to fill that need by partnering with PSA Airlines, recruitingRead More

Etihad Aviation Training and Abu Dhabi’s Khalifa University of Science and Technology have announced a three-year study to help train the pilots of the future. The study will develop innovative and more engaging training procedures, drawing upon neuro-cognition, for the next generation of airline pilots. Captain Fabrizio Interlandi, NEXTGEN project manager for Etihad Aviation Training,Read More

India is considering setting an experience threshold for pilots who fly Boeing’s 737 MAX planes, as it moves to ensure safety once the aircraft returns to service, a senior official of the air safety regulator told Reuters. The 737 MAX, the fastest-selling plane in the history of Boeing, has been grounded worldwide since March, afterRead More