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CAE Signs 15-Year Partnership Agreement with the Qantas Group to Develop and Operate a New Pilot Training Centre in Sydney, Australia

CAE announced that it has signed an exclusive 15-year agreement with the Qantas Group, to develop and operate a new state-of-the-art pilot training centre in Sydney, Australia.

“As the global leader in civil aviation training, we are thrilled to be expanding CAE’s global network to Sydney, Australia to support the Qantas Group, a company that shares our unwavering commitment to safety,” said Marc Parent, CAE’s President and CEO. “As the operator of 50+ civil aviation training centres around the world, CAE is uniquely positioned to provide operational efficiencies to the Qantas Group and deliver an exceptional training experience for their pilots.”

“The Qantas Group has trained its pilots and crew in Sydney for more than half a century. Through this partnership with CAE, we look forward to bringing this critical function back to New South Wales via the new custom-built facility,” said Alan Joyce, Qantas Group’s CEO. “As our international network recovers from the impact of COVID and we grow our fleet, this new training centre will give us the simulator capacity required to train our new and current pilots.”

CAE will operate a new 7,000 square-metre CAE Sydney Training Centre that is slated to open in early 2024.

In addition, CAE will deploy a new A320 full flight simulator and purchase the Qantas Group’s B787, A330, and B737NG full-flight simulators and associated integrated procedures trainers for the new centre. The Qantas Group’s A380 full-flight simulator and emergency procedures equipment will also be relocated to the new CAE Sydney Training Centre, where they will be operated and maintained by CAE. The development is subject to planning approvals, with a submission lodged by LOGOS who will develop the centre in partnership with CAE and the Qantas Group.

With a capacity for up to eight full-flight simulators, the CAE Sydney Training Centre will enable CAE to add more training capacity to address the addition of A350 and A321XLR aircraft to the Qantas Group’s fleet. This new centre will also allow CAE to grow its network capacity to provide training to operators in the region.

Source: CAE Press Release
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Australian Airline Hiring First Officers at Low Flight Hour Time Requirement as Demand for Pilots Increases

For over a year now the United States airlines have been promoting pilot job opportunities for Australian pilots (under the E3 program) and have been active in visiting Australia to conduct pilot recruitment roadshow events.

The resulting effect of this can be seen in Australian airlines as well as Flight School’s – the latest development is that the 77 aircraft airline Virgin Australia, the largest airline by fleet size to use the Virgin brand, has announced its latest First Officer pilot hiring requirement.

The airline is looking to hire new first officers for its Boeing 737 fleet which meet the following requirement;

  • Non-type rated pilots
  • Minimum requirement of 500 total command flight hours on any fixed-wing aircraft
  • Minimum of 200 hours command on a multi-engined aircraft

This low minimum flight hour requirement is a sign of the growing demand and possible lack of supply of qualified airline pilots.

The airline is recruitment in line with its growth plans as it continues to take delivery of its order book of more than 20 Boeing 737MAX.

Photo Credit – Virgin Australia

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Airline in the Southern Pacific Struggles with Pilot Shortage, Plans to Induct More Pilots

Air Vanuatu said that its reduction in its flights were primarily due to the current pilot shortage. However, the airline has already hired pilots who are set to commence their training in the coming weeks.

Representatives from the airline said that it would only take two pilots to call in sick for a flight schedule to be affected.

“The airline wishes to express sincere apologies from the CEO and full team for the disruption to current domestic schedules. There are currently two problems that are affecting the domestic flights, the first being a shortage of qualified pilots for the domestic routes. Extra domestic pilots have already been recruited and will start work in the coming weeks. The situation has been further aggravated by illness amongst pilots who are suffering this week from the flu. This combination has meant that certain domestic schedules have now been amended. This means the frequency of flights to the following destinations has reduced but they are still serviced by the airline each week. Air Vanuatu has confirmed that these changes do not affect any of the international flights for which they assure their customers they have a full complement of pilots and staff,” the airline said in press release.

The airline also announced in June that with the Government’s subsidy, two Twin Otters will arrive later this year and another ATR aircraft will also be purchased at the same time.

Photo Credit – Air Vanuatu

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Global Pilot Training Group and Simulator Manufacturer is Looking to hire a Regional Sales Manager – Asia Pacific

L3Harris Commercial Aviation a global pilot trainer and simulator manufacturer is looking to expand its team including hiring a Regional Sales Manager for the APAC Region. Please see the job post below;

“Commercial Aviation Solutions (CAS) sector includes the Commercial Training Solutions Division (CTS), ACSS (a joint venture with Thales) and Aviation Products Division (APD). L3Harris CAS provides annual revenues of approximately $1.2bn and has approximately 2,300 employees. It provides international civil training and simulation solutions, training services for qualified and aspiring pilots, aviation products, airborne situational awareness and safety solutions, cockpit flight displays (both commercial and military), flight data & cockpit voice recorders and Iridium Satcom products. CAS has operations in the United States, United Kingdom, Portugal, China, Thailand and New Zealand.

In the role of Sales Manager, CAS, you will report to the Regional Sales Director. You will be responsible through the management of your own accounts for the generation of annual orders and bookings in line with annual targets, the maintenance of strong customer relationships and the realization of strategic priorities and operational targets. As a dynamic, driven sales professional, you will demonstrate exceptional account management skills to deliver and exceed quarterly and annual sales targets across the full range of CAS products. The successful candidate will be based in Bangkok and will have the current right to live and work there.

CAS is implementing a centralized, matrixed sales organization across its three businesses and the role-holders will play a key in delivering orders to meet the evolving and growing needs of the business.

Our Sales Managers will support the growth and transformation of our business.

Day to day responsibilities will include (but not limited to):

  • Manage your own portfolio of major accounts in the region, interfacing at the most senior levels.
  • Ensure you constantly seek new and repeat business opportunities, establishing requirements by building strong customer relationships and ensuring CAS is always in the customer’s consideration set for any relevant opportunity.
  • Ensure you constantly look for opportunities to bundle offerings across CAS’ portfolio – differentiating CAS from its competition and creating a unique proposition for our customers
  • Working collaboratively at all levels of seniority with internal partners including Bids, Commercial, Finance and Engineering to produce commercially exciting proposals that meet the customer’s expectations and the specifications and terms of each RFP process.
  • Where possible, maximize value of each deal by suggesting how customers could benefit by extending their requirements.
  • Ensure your own training and development needs are with a particular focus on professional sales and account management skills and effectiveness and product knowledge.
  • Contribute actively to all activities required of you to ensure CAS CRM systems are utilized and updated in a timely way at all times.
  • Operate with pace, purpose, poise and confidence while interacting and engaging with a highly educated, sophisticated, international workforce serving a global customer base.
  • Learn and understand the nuances of the business and its place within the broader industry such that you can develop business strategies and solutions underpinned by a supportive and enabling infrastructure designed to grow the business.
  • Creating and sustaining a culture of inclusion that is attracting, welcoming and rewarding to a diverse employee population where the best idea wins.

Deliver Results and Demonstrate Success:

  • For your accounts, ensure that revenue and order intake targets are achieved or exceeded on a quarterly and annual basis for all products, services and integrated solutions. Support your colleagues in this goal.
  • Grow CAS market share in region and achieve >10% organic CAGR in order intake.
  • Improve the ‘Net Promoter Score’ amongst CAS customers through delivery of exceptional customer service at all times. Help your customers resolve any customer service pain points where they exist.

Knowledge, Skills and Qualifications:

  • Commercially driven and energized sales professional who operates with a sense of urgency and bias for action.
  • Demonstrated and proven track record of meeting and exceeding sales targets through effective prospecting, relationship building, problem solving, solution development and negotiating.
  • Experience of managing sales opportunities against tight deadlines and competing priorities.
  • Excellent English language verbal presentation skills with experience creating and delivering compelling presentations.
  • Confident demeanor and professional delivery at all times.
  • Capable sales manager, comfortable expecting superb performance from yourself and in support of your colleagues.
  • Demonstrable qualitative and quantitative analytical skills with strong attention to detail and the ability to use data and metrics to drive decisions.”

To apply for the role please use this link or contact L3Harris Commercial Aviation directly.

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Online Flight Training Platform Shortlisted for the 2022 Australian Aviation Awards

GoFly Aviation is pleased to announce that its flight training platform, GoFly Online, has been shortlisted for the Australian Aviation Awards 2022.

GoFly Online has been named as a finalist in two categories: ‘Flight Training Business of the Year’, and ‘Startup of the Year’.

Go Fly Online is a digital platform which covers Flight training videos from RPC to PPL, online aviation theory text books, pilot practice exams, pilot interviews and resources.

The Australian Aviation Awards is the premier event of the year that recognises the leading professionals and businesses in the aviation community across the Australian nation.

This shortlisting is recognition for all the hard work the GoFly Aviation team has put into producing content for the flight training website over the last two years and reinforces the belief that the old 20th century methods of teaching pilots to fly, could benefit greatly from an injection of 21st century technology.

Source: GoFly Aviation Announcement

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