- Boeing to Move Flight Training from Seattle to Miami[Mar. 08, 2013]
Boeing Co said on Friday it is consolidating its North American flight and maintenance training operations in Miami, a shift that will move all flight simulators for the 787 Dreamliner and other aircraft out of the Seattle area.
- Chinese Pilot-Training Program Spreads Its Wings to Mangalore[Mar. 05, 2013]
Shixiang (Albert) Ma can readily identify the highlights so far of his 60-week pilot training course. Alone in the cockpit, in charge of the controls on his first solo flight high above the flat plains of northern Victoria is one of them.
- Lightning Bolts and Ice: Testing Planes to Withstand Wild Weather[Feb. 18, 2013]
Cardiff University may be struck by lightning every day, but its nothing to do with the miserable British weather.
- Watchdog: FAA Behind on Boosting Airline Pilot Training[Feb. 05, 2013]
The Federal Aviation Administration is long overdue in completing rules for better airline crew training in response to a fatal crash in 2009, according to a federal watchdog that says the agency must overcome industry opposition.
- Firing Up: Strange "Plane" Appears at Melbourne Airport[Feb. 04, 2013]
If you've visited Melbourne Airport in the past few months and wondered why an enormous, rust-coloured plane is sitting outside on the tarmac, wonder no more.
- Indonesian Airline Teams Up with Singaporean Agency on Pilot Training[Jan. 29, 2013]
In a bid to speed up availability of pilots qualified to fly Airbus A320 passenger planes it would operate in the near future, Indonesia's state-run airline, Merpati Nusantara Airlines (MNA), set up cooperation with Singapore Technology Aerospace to train MNA's pilots, a statement released by the MNA said here on Monday.
- Dearth of Pilots Drives Demand for Training[Dec. 28, 2012]
China is forecast to have 10,000 general aviation aircraft by 2020, but who will fly them?
- First G450/550 Simulator to Support Business Jet Training in China[Dec. 25, 2012]
Recently, Shanghai Eastern Flight Training Co., Ltd., a company co-invested by China Eastern Air Holding Company and China Eastern Airlines Corp., has cooperated with Canada' CAE to introduce China's first Gulfstream G450/550 simulator. After installation and testing, it has passed the verification of authorities and has been officially put into operation.
- Air India-Indian Airlines Feud Hits 787 Training[Nov. 23, 2012]
You may have never been allowed to choose your examiner who will determine whether you fail or pass an exam, but the animosity between pilots of erstwhile Air India and Indian Airlines has for the first time led to such a demand - and that too to fly a brand new plane! The reason: IA pilots claim they want to choose "fair" AI trainers.
- After Innovating the Skies, AirAsia X Takes Innovation to School[Nov. 21, 2012]
Barely five months after flight D7 192 arrived in Tribhuvan International Airport, Kathmandu to mark AirAsia X's arrival into Nepal's picturesque capital city, the Kuala Lumpur based long-haul low fare airline today launched the One Laptop Per Child Program, a community outreach project in partnership with OLE Nepal, a non-profit organization dedicated to improve the quality of education in Nepal, while reducing the disparity in education quality and access through the integration of technology in the classroom teaching-learning process.