Training and Workforce

A recent indicator of the business climate malaise that California’s new governor has vowed to reverse is the move of flight simulator facility operator Si

PrestoSim, a Grapevine, Texas, privately held Part 142 school, recently received FAA approval to provide simulator-based upgrade, initial, transition and t

Profits soared last year at Warren Buffett’s holding company, Berkshire Hathaway, though not all of the company’s divisions did well.

FlightSafety International (FSI) is expanding its training options, offering a Web-based eLearning system that also provides a learning management system (

A few months ago I wrote about the events surrounding a British Airways
flight from Los Angeles to London (AIN, December 2006, page 78).

FlightSafety International’s business aviation learning center at Farnborough Airport in the UK is expected to open next January.

Shanghai Sikorsky has delivered two Shen 3A helicopters (license-built Schweizer 300Cs) to Tianjin’s Civil Aviation University of China (CAUC).

Dassault Falcon Jet has completed the approval process to certify CAE SimuFlite’s Falcon 2000 maintenance program.

The “right stuff” might be your answer, particularly if you liked what author Tom Wolfe had to say in his recounting of America’s efforts to send a man to

FlightSafety has added Learjet 35/35A and King Air 350 simulators to its training facility at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport.

Jeppesen recently kicked off a five-year plan to introduce a “fully integrated line of new JAA training products.” The first, a revised set of ATPL trainin

The comment window has been reopened until March 11 on the FAA’s proposal to revise the technical and operational requirements for simulators and flight-tr

FlightSafety International has started construction of its full-service learning center at Farnborough Airport, about a 45-minute drive from central London

Representatives of Pilatus Business Aircraft were on hand January 8 to witness the unveiling of SimCom Training Center’s newest simulator, an advanced Pila

On the heels of the termination of a training contract with United Airlines (a mutual agreement the companies said), Eclipse Aviation said it is “currently

NetJets Europe is recruiting candidates for a new ab initio pilot training program that it hopes could provide its growing fractional ownership fleet with

CAE’s training facility in Morristown, N.J.

CAE has opened a new four-simulator expansion of its flight-training center at Burgess Hill in the UK.

Transport Canada has approved Alteon Training, a wholly owned subsidiary of Boeing, to be an approved training organization for maintenance training under

The FAA has bestowed its highest award, the Diamond Award for Maintenance Excellence, on Raytheon Aircraft Services Indianapolis.

For some time I have been aware of and exposed to a changing culture at the major airlines, and it holds lessons for corporate aviation.

What I

Fran Dawson of Universal Weather & Aviation recommends using e-mail groups to work more efficiently.

Since the early days of powered flight, aircraft performance has been a mainstay of the pilot-training process.

Construction of the new FlightSafety International (FSI) Learning Center at Farnborough Airport in the UK neared completion last month.

Ask any flight department manager his top operational priority and the number-one answer is running a safe operation.

It will likely surprise AIN readers to learn that Eclipse Aviation has changed its plans for initial and recurrent pilot training by formi

The Flight Safety Foundation Corporate Aviation Committee held a workshop in October about instituting a pilot-friendly drug- and alcohol-abatement program

Montreal-based simulator manufacturer and training organization CAE announced a restructuring plan, including several hundred layoffs, to take effect April

Fire is the sharpest two-edged sword in man’s bag of tools.

A majority of professional pilots have earned a flight instructor rating as the first stepping stone on their aviation career path.