Flight Training

American Airlines has donated 300 iPads to the Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) as part of the airline’s “To Care for People on Life’s Journey” initiative. According to ACE, the donation will be used for programs such as the Florida Air Museum’s Kid Zone, Destination Aviation summer camp and High School UAV Club. The nonprofit […]

There are many considerations to work through before your first purchase. Indeed, for the most economically efficient path to the best simulator for your purposes, you should work through all those considerations before making any purchases. Parts of a Sim Want a home flight simulator? You’ll need a chair to sit on and a table […]

Slovenia-based aircraft manufacturer Pipistrel has made its computer-based training courses available free of charge for the next three months while people are isolated due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Course topics include Pipistrel’s ALPHA Electro, ALPHA Trainer, and Virus SW, SWiS and SW 121 models and the Rotax 912 engine. The company is also offering […]

FlightSafety International has announced that it is now providing the ground school section of its recurrent training programs online. Online courses will be conducted via the company’s LiveLearning training system, which allows real-time interaction with instructors and other course participants. Courses also offer access to online annotation tools, cockpit recordings, video and other interactive features. […]

The Florida-based Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) announced last week that its flight scholarship initiative has produced its 100th private pilot. The initiative, which awards scholarships to teenagers with the goal of “developing the next generation of aerospace professionals,” began in 2012. There are currently 40 pilots in training in the program. “When we rolled […]

Qantas announced the official opening of its new Pilot Academy flight training school in Toowoomba, Australia, on Wednesday. The airline says the academy has the capacity to train up to 250 pilots a year with the goal of building “a long-term talent pipeline” for Qantas, Jetstar and QantasLink. The first class of 34 students has […]

The Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) has announced that its Young Eagles youth aviation education program hit a milestone this week, logging 2.2 million young people flown since its launch in 1992. EAA Young Eagles offers introductory flights to children and teenagers ages 8 to 17. The flights are provided at no cost with the goal […]

Getting an aviation degree in three years instead of four could save students $20K to $30K under Purdue University’s new “Degree in 3” program. But it would also more quickly help fill the pilot and technician pipeline that Purdue, among others, feels is essential to countering an expected shortage of talent in the coming years. […]

FlightSmart has teamed with IBM to create a “fully integrated training tool … designed to increase training effectiveness and enhance safety through automated, intelligent and objective training.” Translation: Artificial Intelligence is going to analyze your training mistakes and develop a personalized remediation program. “FlightSmart will set a new higher standard for personalized, highly effective pilot […]

Not all flight reviews are equal, and rusty pilots are not at all uncommon, but I recently faced a scenario that gave me pause. It read like the beginning of an NTSB report with a stack of extremely novel circumstances. My choice was either be one of the contributing factors to an accident or one […]