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Czech Flight Training Group, F AIR, Signs Training Agreement with SKY4u Aviation to Expand Training Opportunities

German pilot training organisation SKY4u Aviation, based in Berlin, and Czech flight training group F AIR, with its simulator base in Prague, have officially signed a new training agreement during the European Airline Training Symposium (EATS) 2024 in Cascais to strengthen their collaboration and expand training opportunities in the Czech Republic.

As part of this partnership, SKY4u will utilize F AIR’s B737NG and A320 fixed-base simulators at Prague International Airport, extending its APS-MCC and Type Rating training to this strategic location.

For F AIR, this collaboration means an expanded training portfolio with SKY4u as a trusted partner, adding APS-MCC and Type Ratings to complement its current ATPL training programs. This enhanced offering will benefit both individual pilots and airline partners, supporting advanced training pathways in aviation.

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US Flight Training Group Expands Network with Acquisition of Flight School Assets in November 2024

Fort Myers, Florida, USA – Paragon Flight Training, an award-winning flight training academy based at Page Field in Fort Myers, Florida, has purchased the assets of AirVentures in LaGrange, Georgia, a flight training cornerstone in the region for more than 30 years. The announcement was made by Paragon Flight President Chris Schoensee and follows the company’s 2023 entrance into the Georgia market when it began a partnership with LaGrange College to offer the college’s first program in aviation.

“At Paragon Flight, our strategic expansion plans are guided by a solid cultural fit centered on a shared vision of excellence in flight training and locations rooted in growing regional markets – and AirVentures fits the bill on both counts,” Schoensee said. “It is an established and well-respected local flight training school in a burgeoning area of Georgia and the purchase is another milestone in our company’s 18-year history,” Schoensee said.

In May of this year, Paragon Flight announced its company-wide student enrollment was at an all-time high, and in September welcomed its first full-year class of students at LaGrange College pursuing a minor in aviation using Paragon Flight’s acclaimed Professional Pilot Program (P3). The program is specifically designed to allow students to pursue other majors while simultaneously preparing for dynamic careers.

“Our entrance into Georgia with the LaGrange College partnership opened our eyes to the tremendous potential in this part of the state. With its proximity to Atlanta and the strong interest in commercial aviation careers continuing unabated, we are bullish on the opportunity to integrate AirVentures operations into Paragon Flight and significantly bolster our flight training capacity here,” Schoensee said.

The purchase price remains confidential. A second AirVentures location in Columbus, Georgia, was not part of the acquisition. The LaGrange location will begin operating under the Paragon Flight Training brand effective December 1, 2024.

Paragon Flight now has three locations, with its headquarters in Fort Myers, Florida, and a Punta Gorda location that opened in 2023 at the Punta Gorda PDG Air Center. Per a previously announced long-term strategy to add 50 Piper aircraft by the end of 2027, Paragon Flight has added 9 new Piper P100i’s already this year, with the tenth arriving this month. With more than 30 Piper P100i aircraft currently in its fleet, Paragon Flight owns approximately 15% of the Piper P100i aircraft in existence, including the milestone 100th Piper P100i.

About Paragon Flight Training
Paragon Flight is an award-winning flight academy headquartered at Page Field in Fort Myers, Florida. Holding FAA and SEVIS accreditations, the company trains commercial, professional, and recreational pilots as well as offering military pilot training for domestic and foreign governments. With multiple locations in Florida and Georgia, Paragon Flight now has more than 34,000 square feet of training facilities in the South Eastern United States.

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CAE Prodigy Officially Launched to the Civil Aviation Market with Air Canada as the Launch Customer

Montreal, Canada – CAE announced that it has begun deployment to customers of its full-flight simulators (FFS) equipped with the new ultra-realistic 3D visual system using gaming technology, the CAE Prodigy Image Generator (IG). Air Canada is the launch customer, with a new CAE Prodigy-equipped Airbus A320 FFS which was put into service at its training facility in Vancouver, Canada. As of now, CAE Prodigy is available on new FFS for all commercial and business aircraft models, and as an upgrade package on already deployed FFS, providing an ultra-realistic and immersive pilot training experience.

CAE is the first leading aviation simulation and training organization to seamlessly integrate a gaming engine into its FFS visual system and achieve level D qualification from Transport Canada, the highest level of qualification for a FFS. CAE achieved this by adapting Epic Games’ Unreal Engine to build a high-end image generator product.

“CAE Prodigy elevates training standards with photorealistic renderings, enhanced moving models, resulting in a more immersive environment. It improves visual simulation fidelity, making training not only more realistic but also more effective. CAE Prodigy supports a range of projection technologies, ensuring flexibility and scalability across different training devices, making it a game changer in the industry,” said CAE’s Chief Technology and Product Officer, Emmanuel Levitte. “This impressive innovation required a unique mix of domain expertise and game engine knowhow, which is why we leveraged the game development expertise of Montreal-based game studio Behaviour Interactive for this project.”

“We’re celebrating the first customer deployment of a new simulator equipped with CAE Prodigy, and we’re proud to have Air Canada as our launch customer for this Canadian innovation, as we have a long tradition of collaboration to introduce new technology to the market,” said Michel Azar-Hmouda, CAE Division President, Commercial Aviation. “But this is only the beginning for CAE Prodigy as we will be deploying this ultra-realistic visual system on other CAE full-flight simulators over the coming months both in new simulators and in update packages for customers.”

“Air Canada has worked in close collaboration with CAE for more than a year to support the introduction of this new flight simulator technology and we are excited to see it come online at our expanded training facility in Vancouver. The new system further strengthens safety by bringing enhanced realism to the simulator environment and improves the already leading training we provide our pilots. It will allow for improved low visibility training, as well as more realistic aircraft lighting in clouds, better sign readability as well as improved contaminate runway simulations. This new technology reinforces Air Canada’s commitment to providing the highest level of training to our pilots for the safety and comfort of our customers and crew,” said Murray Strom, Senior Vice President, Flight Operations and Maintenance at Air Canada.

This deployment at Air Canada marks the official release of CAE Prodigy for the civil aviation market. The next step in the product development roadmap includes new and improved capabilities to support Defense & Security simulator deployments.

For more information on CAE Prodigy’s key features and capabilities, visit https://www.cae.com/prodigy/.

About CAE Civil Aviation Training
CAE – Civil Aviation elevates and advances human performance by providing holistic and immersive training solutions for professionals in business and commercial aviation. Whether for pilots, maintenance technicians, cabin crew or air traffic controllers, we help keep aircraft in the skies with exceptionally trained professionals ready to take on any challenge safely. We operate 70+ facilities on five continents, training over 135,000 business and commercial professionals annually.

About CAE
At CAE, we equip people in critical roles with the expertise and solutions to create a safer world. As a technology company, we digitalize the physical world, deploying software-based simulation training and critical operations support solutions. Above all else, we empower pilots, cabin crew, maintenance technicians, airlines, business aviation operators, and defence and security forces to perform at their best every day and when the stakes are the highest. Around the globe, we’re everywhere customers need us to be with approximately 13,000 employees in more than 240 sites and training locations in over 40 countries. CAE represents more than 75 years of industry firsts—the highest-fidelity flight and mission simulators as well as training programs powered by digital technologies. We embed sustainability in everything we do. Today and tomorrow, we’ll make sure our customers are ready for the moments that matter.

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Indian Pilot Training Facilitator Aero Flight Aviation Launches A320 Type Rating Special Offer in November 2024

Indian Pilot Training Facilitator Aero Flight Aviation has announced a special offer for Airbus A320 type rating – offering an all inclusive course for 12 Lakhs Rupee (approximately USD$14,200) including:

  • Pre-type rating classes
  • Stay and transportation
  • Meals
  • EGCA Paperwork Assistance
  • Visa Assistance

Aero Flight Aviation also offers Boeing B737NG type rating for which it successfully trained over 317 Pilots for Boeing 737 Type Ratings through its esteemed partners in 2023.

Source: Aero Flight Aviation

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