Training and Workforce

News about simulators and training procedures, as well as workforce.

Training and Workforce

CAE bullish on training demand

CAE civil training and services group president Jeff Roberts arrived in Geneva Monday as his company announced a major expansion of its business aviation t
Training and Workforce

CAE, Bombardier Offer Global Sims

For the first time Europe has its own simulator capacity for the Global Express, now that CAE and Bombardier have begun offering pilot and technical traini
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Piiots Take Solar Impulse Sim on 25-hour Flight

Bertrand Piccard and André Borschberg recently spent their first 25 hours at the controls of a flight simulator that replicates the cockpit in the first So
Training and Workforce

Frasca sim add-on helps in pilot hiring

Considering the cost of hiring, training, salary and benefits, it is important to hire the best pilot candidate.
Training and Workforce

NBAA attempting to fit bizav into CDM mix

The FAA is attributing better planning between major airlines and ATC for reducing delays nearly 12 percent since the implementation of Free Flight Phase 1
Training and Workforce

MHIA’s PROP seminars keep MU-2 pilots safer

How many manufacturers sponsor regular owner/operator safety seminars on aircraft that went out of production 17 years ago? Mitsubishi Heavy Industries Ame
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Eurocopter opens helo sim center for its own

Eurocopter held the grand opening for its new simulator training center, Helisim, in Marignane, France, in late February.
Training and Workforce

FlightSafety to inaugurate Global Express training

Global Express simulator training will be launched late next year by FlightSafety International.
Training and Workforce

Eagles program soars in first quarter

More than 10,000 young people received their introductory airplane rides in the first three months of this year, the strongest three months in the history
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Contract pilots’ group widens scope

Independent pilots have been joined by flight attendants and mechanics in the newly renamed Independent Contract Aviation Professionals of America associat
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Regionals Update: Bombardier signs new training deal in China

Bombardier announced during last month’s Zuhai Air Show that the Qingdao Fei Sheng International Aviation Technology Development Training Co.
Training and Workforce

Aerosim wins software orders

Bombardier has contracted with Aerosim-Mechtronix to provide flight management system (FMS) training software for its CRJ200, -700 and -900 family of regio
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Finally, CD-ROM-based avionics training for PCs

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Regulations and Government

Rotorcraft Update: NTSB wants certain helo pilots to be IFR proficient

Helicopter pilots who conduct commercial passenger-carrying flights in areas where whiteout conditions routinely occur should be required to have a helicop
Training and Workforce

FlightSafety Boeing opens London center

FlightSafety Boeing Training International (FSB) opened its UK training center at London Luton Airport on July 27.
Training and Workforce

Flight school uses Web to become ‘satellite campus’

Phoenix-based Westwind School of Aeronautics has teamed with SkyWest Airlines and Utah Valley State College (UVSC) in a program under which ab initio fligh
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Training gives repair stations an extra edge

“It doesn’t matter how small the operation, training is a key component to safety and success,” Sarah MacLeod, executive director of the Alexandria, Va.-ba
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Pilot Lifestyle: Harmonizing your life's work with the rest of your life

Ron flies a Gulfstream IV based at Dallas Love Field and he loves his job–most of the time.
Safety

Flying in manual mode

Because corporate flight crews operate sophisticated aircraft in an ever-changing environment, a periodic review of the aviation department operations manu
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Jet Aviation approved to train pilots

Zurich-based Jet Aviation Business Jets has been approved by Swiss authorities as a type-rating training organization (TRTO), clearing the way for the comp
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MedAire, ASU offer altitude chamber training

Altitude chamber training is now being offered by MedAire at Arizona State University.
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U. of N. Dakota will help train Eclipse 500 pilots

Eclipse Aviation introduced an in-house mandatory training program for customers of its Eclipse 500 very light twinjet, which includes pilot qualification
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Bizav 101 lacking from future pilots’ curriculum

Where will we find tomorrow’s pilots? The military, long a provider of trained aviators, hasn’t produced sufficient numbers to satisfy the civil aviation d
Training and Workforce

Bizav hits the brakes as layoffs reflect slow sales

One OEM called it “an adjustment.” Another referred to it as a “reduction in force.”
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UND aerospace to help train Eclipse pilots

Eclipse Aviation introduced an in-house mandatory training program for customers of its Eclipse 500 very light twinjet that includes pilot qualification an
Training and Workforce

Embry-Riddle given $20 Million for GA research

The FAA has given $20 million to the FAA Center of Excellence for General Aviation, a research and training facility at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical Universit
Training and Workforce

Aviation MBA: the short form at Northwestern U

Many business gurus believe knowledge is power, but the ability to transform that wisdom into action is the real measure of success.
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To what degree is college required for career pilots?

The aviation industry has often been heavily focused on the requirement for new-hire pilots to have a college degree, that is up until the past few years w
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Job hunting: the power of networking

Want to learn how to land your dream flying job? Then Job Hunting for Pilots by Gregory Brown (Iowa State University Press; www.isupress.com; $21.
Training and Workforce

New-school thinking sparks bizav career fair

An airport-wide aviation career fair that drew some 45 exhibitors and close to 1,500 middle- and high- school students over a two-day period started with a