Training and Workforce

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

Safety

Hypoxia Training Sans Altitude Chamber

AirCare’s Facts program now offers hypoxia training at customers’ facilities.
Training and Workforce

Embry-Riddle Lands in Oregon

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University is scheduled to begin graduate and undergraduate degree classes in professional aeronautics and technical management.
Training and Workforce

EBACE 2005: For Pilots Only

Jeppesen of Englewood, Colo., introduced new weather maps that provide forecast information on icing and turbulence.
Training and Workforce

SimuFlite’s Simfinity may offer Web-based pilot training soon

With two major players in the field of simulator training for business aviation, competition for a larger share of the market is a constant, and innovation
Training and Workforce

From Link Aeronautical to SimuFlite

SimuFlite celebrated its 20th anniversary last year, but the company’s roots go farther back than that, all the way to the Link Trainer.

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Dassault inks training deal with strategy firm

ServiceElements, a customer service motivational and strategy firm, has signed a long-term agreement with Dassault Falcon Jet to provide service strategy c
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FlightSafety Introduces Runway Judgment Training

FlightSafety International has added a new program to its simulator training courses.
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Simulator Builder Selected for Eclipse 500

Eclipse Aviation selected Opinicus of Clearwater, Fla., to be the exclusive supplier of flight-training devices and simulators for the Eclipse 500 very lig
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Feeling Lightheaded? Here’s One Cure

FlightSafety International is introducing a hypoxia awareness course at its learning centers.
Training and Workforce

SimuFlite ducks bullet in CAE restructuring

The restructuring program that Quebec-based CAE has adopted to improve its financial position will not affect SimuFlite, Andrew Arnovitz, director of inves
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Eurocopter NVG Training

American Eurocopter’s training center at Grand Prairie, Texas, has won FAA Part 141 approval to offer training on night vision goggles (NVGs).
Training and Workforce

FlightSafety Farnborough Up and Running

The new FlightSafety International Learning Center at Farnborough Airport, UK, received its first group of pilots on July 18.
ATC

Controllers might need more training

While most speakers discussed current training issues and new learning concepts at the Air Traffic Control Association’s recent “ATC Training for the Futur
Training and Workforce

Florida School Expands

Helicopter Adventures has opened a new flight-training facility.
Aircraft

TBM 700 and Avanti Training Expands

SimCom now offers Socata TBM 700 training at both its Orlando, Fla.
Training and Workforce

Online High-altitude Course Introduced

King Schools introduced an online course that the San Diego company said meets FAR Part 61.31 requirements for pilots to receive high-altitude training for
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OEMs must make more sims available

Operators are struggling to book time in flight simulators for certain types of business aircraft, according to Steve Fisher, director of corporate aviatio
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DOT calls for renewed focus on flight training

Transportation Department Inspector General Kenneth Mead last month called for renewed emphasis to reduce the general aviation accident rate, noting that t
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FAA Offers Restricted Airspace Training

To help pilots understand the complexities of today’s stricter airspace rules and reduce violations for operating in restricted airspace–particularly the s
Training and Workforce

New Training Center Getting More Simulators

CAE is relocating its Sikorsky S-76 and Gulfstream IV simulators from its SimuFlite facility in Dallas, to its new business aviation training center near M
Aircraft

FAA requires more stringent training for MU-2 operators

The FAA is not planning to ground the Mitsubishi MU-2, despite a plea from Rep.
Charter & Fractional

Simulator line checks proposed

An ATP corporate pilot who is a Gold Seal CFI and safety counselor is currently working on a rulemaking petition to allow pilots to accomplish the FAR 135.
Safety

Better Aviation English Goal of Program

A new FAA program is intended to improve the use of comprehensible English as the international language of aviation and support new English language profi
Training and Workforce

CAE To Provide Simulator for China’s RJ

Montreal-based CAE will build the first full-flight simulator for the new ARJ21 regional jet being developed by China’s AVIC I Commercial Aircraft Co.
Aircraft

Global Jet Services Named Sino Mx Trainer

Sino Swearingen has selected Global Jet Services as the maintenance training provider for its new business jet, the SJ30-2.
Training and Workforce

Electric Sim Motion Moves to a Higher Level

FlightSafety International (FSI) achieved a first recently when it put a Citation Sovereign simulator into service at its Orlando Learning Center.
Training and Workforce

Level-E training likely for MU-2

In the most recent flare-up of controversy about MU-2 safety and upcoming formal training requirements, a small bit of information about something called “
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AIA Predicts Worforce Crisis

Testifying before the House space and aeronautics subcommittee last month, Aerospace Industries Association (AIA) president and CEO John Douglass said NASA
Training and Workforce

Some Retired Airplanes Will Not Fade Away

The FAA has teamed with the Build A Plane organization to provide retired aircraft to high schools looking to establish an aviation maintenance program.
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Eurocopter beefs up training services

In May Eurocopter launched Eurocopter Training Services (ETS), its full-fledged training subsidiary.