Training and Workforce

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

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has a new program that will allow transition from aviation enthusiast to regional airline pilot in less than a year.

As of June 13 at least 50,500 foreign nationals in the U.S.

“We’re going after FlightSafety,” Nick Leontidis, CAE’s executive vice president of civil aviation training and equipment, told AIN.

With the opening of its new northern Virginia regional airline training center last fall, Pan Am International Flight Academy served notice of its commitme

With the opening of its new 67,000-sq-ft training center in Orlando, Fla.

An FAA training video for precision runway monitor (PRM) operations, available online at

FlightSafety International and Bombardier Aerospace have received JAA approval for certain training programs.

Some FlightSafety International students will start evaluating a prototype biometric student identification card at the company’s facility in Vero Beach, F

Simulator maker CAE last month announced that Bombardier has awarded the company the simulation development contract for the CRJ900 regional jet and upgrad

Fort Lauderdale, Fla.-based Pan Am International Flight Academy has installed a Bombardier CRJ flight training device at the school’s Deer Valley, Ariz.

Maintenance professionals will soon be able to quantify the training they have received as a part of their jobs.

In his annual letter to Berkshire Hathaway shareholders released Friday, investment mogul Warren Buffett said the company’s flight-services division–which

Teterboro Airport (TEB) has adopted a training tool developed by Raleigh, N.C.-based Noverant to help pilots prepare for flights into and out of the busy n

More than two years after the FAA completed its latest evaluation of the relatively high accident rate of the Mitsubishi MU-2 twin turboprop, the agency is

SimCom instructor Ted Otto knows the PC-12.

If you’re planning on flying a Cessna Mustang, Embraer Phenom, HondaJet or Diamond D-Jet, you’ll have to learn how to run Garmin’s G1000 avionics system.

As the industry prepares for a possible pilot shortage, an organization called the Professional Aviation Board of Certification (PABC) has its own plan to

When pilots turn their attention to icing, it’s the in-flight kind that garners the most attention and training focus.

The FAA has released draft Advisory Circular updating AC 150/5210-20 on airport ground operations training.

Fidelity Flight Simulation, a Pittsburgh maker of full-motion flight-training devices (FTDs) for fixed-wing aircraft, this month plans to deliver the compa

After four years of studying, the time has come for the test.

Mesa (Ariz.) Falcon Field-based Sabena Airline Training Center (SATC) yesterday received Eclipse 500 type-rating training approval from the FAA, making it

FlightSafety International and CAE SimuFlite have separately introduced a four-hour course to meet the FAA’s new training requirements for pilots who want

There is too little business-aircraft training capacity in Europe, according to a European Business Aviation Association (EBAA) survey.

In a study on the projected number of aircraft mechanics and technicians needed in the future, the General Accounting Office said the FAA’s mechanic traini

Flight schools must innovate to survive, since airlines are no longer able to sponsor tuition and a pilot career has lost its appeal amid headlines announc

An international training course is now offered monthly by Arinc Direct at its Annapolis, Md.

CAE has formed a training alliance with “professional development” consultant Summit Solutions of Charlotte, N.C., to provide management, communications an

Training was not forgotten amid the multibillion-dollar aircraft and MRO deals various Dubai organizations signed at the Dubai Airshow in November.