Training and Workforce

The groups are urging the FAA to rethink its recent guidance on compensation for flight training in warbird and other aircraft.

While technically proficient in the eyes of regulators, many pilots may not be prepared to handle events outside their comfort zone.

Southwest Aerospace Technologies also will provide annual funding toward a scholarship for aviation students at Texas State Technical College.

Gary Reeves specializes in avionics training and also teaches pilots how to use their electronic flight bag apps.

Aviation training provider FlightSafety International (FSI) has joined the International Business Aviation Council (IBAC) as an industry partner.

A training provider CEO says it's unprecedented for so many pilots to go so long without flying or having an alternative way of staying current.

Universal Helicopters (UHI) is partnering with Bell to deliver pilot training in the Bell 505 Jet Ranger X light turbine single.

The pilot shortage has already started, and business aviation needs a plan to retain and hire more flight crewmembers.

The USHST and HAI have launched the “56 Seconds to Live” course on line.

The first class of 16 students began their apprenticeships in March at Bombardier Biggin Hill.

A Thales Airbus Helicopters H145 simulator has been installed at Helisim’s simulation center on the Airbus campus in Grand Prairie, Texas.

The G 120TP has been selected for the first phase of a complete overhaul of Sweden’s military pilot training program.

FlightSafety International and Flight Research have partnered to provide upset recovery training.

The new Leonardo academy will be operated by Rotorsim, a joint venture between Leonardo and CAE.

The course focuses on ICAO's new methodology for assessing and reporting runway surface conditions.

EASA approves VRM's VR flight simulation training device for the Robinson R22.

AOPA, EAA, and GAMA asked the FAA to issue guidance clarifying its view on a court ruling deeming that flight instructors are carrying persons for hire.

Airbus Helicopters has enhanced its distance learning capabilities and is now making many of those permanent.

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West Star Aviation aims to reduce aircraft maintenance turn times by double-digit percentages with expanded second shifts.

As part of its efforts to streamline the training system, the USAF is now training some multi-engine pilots using the T-1 Jayhawk entirely.

A crosswind takeoff is a difficult maneuver that requires a lot of “rudder and stick” skills.

While the pandemic alleviated the pilot shortage, it could reemerge within nine months and grow worse over the decade, according to an Oliver Wyman study.

FlightSafety's Dassault Falcon 8X simulator will be based at its Teterboro learning center.

Better ways of training business aviation pilots are becoming more available.

NBAA said its three-day virtual Flight Operations Conference that concluded on Thursday “broke new ground."

Piper Aircraft M600 factory training provider Legacy Flight Training has added a Frasca M600/SLS simulator at its Vero Beach, Florida learning center.

An expanding student body at Embry-Riddle Asia portends good prospects in a rapidly growing region.

The Flight School Association of North America (FSANA) has rescheduled its upcoming annual International Flight School Conference to this summer.

There are some encouraging signs that both the number of cases and the burden of serious disease and deaths due to Covid is finally beginning to decline.