Training and Workforce

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

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

Independent pilots have been joined by flight attendants and mechanics in the newly renamed Independent Contract Aviation Professionals of America associat

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

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

The parallels that Howard Reisman sees between himself and John F.

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

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

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

“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

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

Because corporate flight crews operate sophisticated aircraft in an ever-changing environment, a periodic review of the aviation department operations manu

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

Altitude chamber training is now being offered by MedAire at Arizona State University.

Eclipse Aviation introduced an in-house mandatory training program for customers of its Eclipse 500 very light twinjet, which includes pilot qualification

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

One OEM called it “an adjustment.” Another referred to it as a “reduction in force.”

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

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

Many business gurus believe knowledge is power, but the ability to transform that wisdom into action is the real measure of success.

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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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

Trade and marketing consultants Garsol Management Innovators of Makati City, the Philippines, have announced plans for the formation of an international fl

CAE last month inaugurated its aviation training center near Denver International Airport.

When Nick Leontidis, CAE’s executive vice president of civil training and equipment, tossed down the gauntlet, saying, “We’re going after FlightSafety…we b

Bowing to demands from an even more security-conscious aviation community, Bell Helicopter is offering the first FAA-approved night-vision-goggle (NVG) tra

Radar manufacturers should consider making equipment easier to use and displays easier to interpret, Honeywell safety specialist Dr.

In conducting a survey about the RDR-4000 weather radar, Honeywell safety specialist Dr.

Even under ideal circumstances, hiring pilots for a corporate operation is arduous.