31/07/2017 news Upset Prevention and Recovery Training compulsory from next year Some good has come out of the 2009 disaster of flight Air France 447, when an Airbus A330 on its way from Rio de Janeiro to Paris went into an aerodyn...
13/07/2017 news Boeing expands UK flight training centre Boeing is expanding its flight training services at Crawley, near London’s Gatwick Airport, with the unveiling of a newly installed 737 MAX 8 simula...
13/07/2017 news Meet A-PiMod, the digital pilot A ‘digital pilot’ in the cockpit to help human pilots with in-flight advice is being developed by the Institute of Flight Guidance at the ...
11/07/2017 news easyJet pilots graduate with BSc (Hons) in Professional Aviation Pilot Practice Degree The first group of easyJet pilots have graduated on the first airline-supported BSc (Hons) Professional Aviation Pilot Practice PAPP degree. The degre...
11/07/2017 news BAA Training starts cadet programme with Small Planet Airlines BAA Training has launched a cadet pilot programme with Small Planet Airlines, an independent leisure airline. Under the agreement, 450 future pilots w...
07/07/2017 news Boeing and FedEx Express collaborate on 777 ecoDemonstrator tests The newest version of Boeing’s 777 Freighter ecoDemonstrator will be a joint project with FedEx, the parcel transporter and will fly in 2018 tes...
05/07/2017 news Jack, 18, wins Nick Davidson flying scholarship Jack Hawkins, aged 18, has been awarded the Nick Davidson Memorial Flying Scholarship for 2017. Last week at London Biggin Hill Airport, Jack was pres...
03/07/2017 news New B737-800 sim for Virtual Aviation Virtual Aviation (VA) has placed an order with Multi Pilot Simulations (MPS) for a new B737-800 fixed based simulator, which will be installed later t...
29/06/2017 news New style ATPL exams start 14 August 2017 The UK Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) will be changing the way it runs ATPL Theoretical Knowledge Examinations from 14 August 2017. The changes are be...
20/06/2017 news ’70 new pilots a day required to meet 10-year demand’ – CAE A staggering 255,000 new airline pilots will be needed over the next 10 years, according to the CAE Airline Pilot Demand Outlook, released today at th...
20/06/2017 news Boeing launches biggest 737 – MAX 10 – at Paris Air Show Boeing has launched its biggest version of the single-aisle 737, the 737 MAX 10, 2017 Paris Air Show on this week at Le Bouget Airport. The US company...
19/06/2017 news Airbus shows off plan for 575-seat A380plus Airbus continues to perservere with its A380, convinced that the poor-selling giant will come good for use at increasingly slot-constrained airports. ...