Training and Workforce

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 will include real-time live traffic from all over the world, provided by FlightAware.

FlightSafety's new mixed-reality training devices will expand pilot training opportunities and help lower training costs.

While grappling with new health and safety protocols, flight training schools are finding resiliency with new online tools.

For pilots stuck without the ability to stay current by flying, desktop simulation offers are potent alternative.

UAE's Horizon International Flight Academy achieved the milestone with the 12 Bell 505 light singles it's received since January.

Chuck Aaron's helicopter upset and instrument training coming to Southern Utah University.

Eli Lilly and Company donated two Gulfstream IVs to aviation maintenance programs at Purdue University and Vincennes University.

Bell is expanding its virtual training offerings during the Covid-19 pandemic.

NetJets is the first charter provider and fractional-share operation to work with the FAA to launch an AQP.

Helsinki-based Coptersafety has received FAA Level-D qualification from the FAA for its CAE AW139 full flight simulator.

With stay-at-home directives forcing their facilities to close, aircraft maintenance schools look to technology to continue instruction despite barriers.

ERAU has already resumed flight operations and is instituting a series of precautions for the return of face-to-face instruction on June 30.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has partnered with GE Aviation and selected its flight operations quality assurance program.

The installation of the new FS1000 simulator in Dallas gave FlightSafety a fifth location for G650 training.

Rudy Frasca died on May 11 a few years after the flight simulator firm he founded in 1958, Frasca International, commemorated its 60th anniversary.

After several delays, the Swedish government has initiated the process to replace the 57-year old Saab SK 60 in the training role.

AS 365s and H160s helicopters are being leased to cover a gap between the retirement of the Aérospatiale Alouette III and the arrival of the H160M.

The International Business Aviation Council has turned to virtual audits for IS-BAO and IS-BAH certifications.

Schools have adapted to online curriculums for now but believe these tools can be used in part to maintain a future pipeline.

Years in the making, the FAA AC 142-1 creates a new approach to Part 135 training that calls for a consensus-based standardized curricula.

Upset prevention and recovery training (UPRT) provider Aviation Performance Solutions has launched new free and paid online UPRT course options.

Diamond Aircraft Industries and Centennial College have agreed to collaborate in several areas such as student work placements.

In dozens of sessions with customers over the past few weeks, Honeywell offers operators tips on how to get the most of the time their aircraft is down.

Acceptance testing of FlightSafety International’s FlightSmart has been completed at Columbus Air Force Base in Mississippi.

CAE credited a government relief program in assisting with the recall of 1,500 of its workers temporarily laid off in Canada.

To help support its network Avfuel has waived the initial subscription fee for its online Avfuel Training System through the end of June.

Aviation Institute of Maintenance will host Digital Decision Day on April 25.

FlightSafety's LiveLearning online recurrent groundschool will be available for more than 20 helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft models.

CAE is temporarily laying off 2,600 of its 10,500 employees, and placing another 900 on reduced workweeks.

Leonardo is expanding its training offerings to include rotorcraft UAS.