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European Airline Owned Pilot Training Group Introduces New Training Programs on Business Jet Full Flight Simulator

Germany headquartered airline owned pilot training organisation and full flight simulator training center operator Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) has announced that it is now offering the availability of Recurrent Training, Renewal Training, and Instructor Training on their Level D Challenger 650 Full Flight Simulator at their training center near Zurich Airport in Switzerland.

“Type Rating Training Courses will be available soon — stay tuned!” shared LAT.

Source: Lufthansa Aviation Training
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FMS Training Solution Provider Heading365 Equips German Cargo Airline’s Pilots with Specialized Training App

Leipzig, Germany – AeroLogic, a global cargo airline, has partnered with Heading365 to enhance pilot training for its fleet. Heading365 is equipping all 700 pilots with their FMS Trainer App, enhancing training efficiency for their fleet of 22 aircraft. The collaboration includes the successful delivery of a customized B777 FMS Trainer PRO app, specifically tailored to AeroLogic’s unique operational needs. This initiative highlights Heading365’s commitment to providing specialized, efficient training solutions.

About Heading365
Heading365 is a provider of Professional FMS Trainer. FMS trainer represents the most realistic simulation possible and includes nearly all functions of the model. You can practice your FMS skills on your iPad and PC. The goal is to help you get more out of your Full Flight Simulator Session with full customization, customer branding and much more. Heading365 products are tailored to the needs of flight schools/ATOs, Airlines and private customers. The system presents an isolated solution, has no interfaces to other programs and does not process any data. By excluding all possible sources of error, we achieve the highest possible level of technical reliability. 

About AeroLogic
AeroLogic is a German-based cargo airline, headquartered in Leipzig. Operating a fleet of Boeing 777 freighters, it provides international freight services, particularly across Europe and Asia.

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Comply365 Announces Acquisition of Training Management System Solution Provider Qualtero

Beloit, Wis. / Bristol, England / Tel Aviv, Israel – September 4, 2024 – Comply365, LLC (“Comply365”), a leading global provider of compliance and safety management solutions for the aviation, rail and defense industries, announced the acquisition of Qualtero Limited (“Qualtero”), a leading provider of solutions to optimize civil and military aviation training operations. The acquisition will create a leading global all-in-one compliance, safety and training platform for peak operational performance serving the aviation, defense and rail industries with over 140 customers located in over 30 countries on six continents. Terms of the transaction were not announced.

In January 2024, Insight Partners, a global software investor, and Liberty Hall Capital Partners (“Liberty Hall”), a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defense industry, announced a strategic growth investment in Comply365 in connection with Comply365’s merger with VistairLimited (“Vistair”). The acquisition of Qualtero represents Comply365’s first acquisition since its merger with Vistair.

Commenting on the acquisition of Qualtero, Tom Samuel, Vice Chairman, and Rob Morgan, CEO, of Comply365 said, “We are delighted to welcome the Qualtero team into the Comply365 family. Qualtero is a world-renowned provider of innovative training and qualification management solutions for civil and military aviation, with a stellar global customer base. This acquisition brings together complementary product lines and talent, further bolstering our ability to deliver a unique value proposition to our customers by connecting the dots between operational content management, safety management, training management, and data analytics.”

Barak Kirmayer, CEO of Qualtero said, “The acquisition of Qualtero by Comply365 marks a significant milestone in Qualtero’s journey. We see immense synergy between the companies’ solutions and teams, and with the support of Comply365, we are poised to deliver even greater value and more innovative products to our combined customers.”

Henry Frankievich, Managing Director at Insight Partners said, “The acquisition of Qualtero is a natural extension of Comply365’s strategy to create a comprehensive compliance and safety platform serving the global aviation, defense and rail industries. We believe that the addition of Qualtero’s widely respected training and qualifications management capabilities will enable our customers to achieve the highest levels of operational excellence. We look forward to continuing to work with Liberty Hall to support Comply365 in their continued growth.”

James Black, Partner at Liberty Hall Capital Partners added, “With the acquisition of Qualtero, Comply365 extends the value proposition it offers to airlines, defense and rail organizations by expanding its capacity to power operational excellence with a leading training management offering. Along with our partners at Insight, we look forward to supporting Comply365’s continued growth, combining the strengths and expertise of both organizations to deliver even greater value to our collective customers.”

Legal advice to Comply365 was provided by Gibson Dunn & Crutcher, Willkie Farr & Gallagher and Goldfarb Gross Seligman. Qualtero was advised by DLA Piper and Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co.

About Comply365

Comply365 is a leading provider of Operational Content Management, Safety Management and Training Management in the highly regulated industries of aviation, defense and rail.  Comply365 provides a powerful combination of expertise and products underpinned by unified best practices, providing airlines, rail and defense organizations with a single digital platform to elevate operational excellence, transform safety management and training, with closer integration of relevant data sets across domains.By empowering airline, rail and defense organizations with an all-in-one compliance, safety, training and data platform, Comply365 ensures their crews and assets always geared for peak operational performance, unlocking unparalleled financial and operational gains through more streamlined, robust and agile operations. Comply365 is the trusted technology partner of many of the most progressive aviation and defenseorganizations worldwide with a global customer base of over 120 airlines, defense and rail organizations.

About Qualtero

Qualtero is a premier provider of training management solutions, empowering organizations to deliver impactful training experiences that drive compliance performance and growth. Qualtero specializes in developing innovative solutions for optimizing commercial and military aviation training operations. Its flagship products include Fox, a comprehensive Training Management System, and Qualtero EQMS, the most modern Qualification Management System. These tools help aviation training organizations of all sizes streamline processes, reduce costs, and enhance throughput.Qualtero’s team of talented and experienced professionals employ proven methodologies to ensure complete customer success, continuously enhancing its solutions with the latest technology to meet their evolving needs.

About Insight Partners

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies that are driving transformative change in their industries. As of December 31, 2023, the firm has over $80B in regulatory assets under management. Insight Partners has invested in more than 800 companies worldwide and has seen over 55 portfolio companies achieve an IPO. Headquartered in New York City, Insight has offices in London, Tel Aviv and the Bay Area. Insight’s mission is to find, fund, and work successfully with visionary executives, providing them with tailored, hands-on software expertise along their growth journey, from their first investment to IPO.

About Liberty Hall

Liberty Hall Capital Partners is a private equity firm focused exclusively on investments in businesses serving the global aerospace and defense industry. Liberty Hall’s principals have a 25-plus year history of working together and have led the investment of over $2.5 billion in equity capital in over 25 businesses serving multiple segments of the aerospace and defense industry. Liberty Hall was founded in July 2011 as the first, and remains the only, private equity firm focused solely on investments in middle market businesses serving the aerospace and defense industry. Liberty Hall executes a proven and repeatable investment strategy designed to transform middle market businesses into larger, more capable and diverse strategic assets.

Source: Qualtero
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Global Flight Training Group, Airways Aviation, Expands European Fleet by 9 Aircraft in August 2024

Global flight training group Airways Aviation, which operates pilot training academies across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, and India has shared that it has expanded its European fleet by 9 aircraft in September 2024, including Diamond DA42, DA40, and DA20 models. This further solidifying its position as the operator of the largest Diamond Aircraft fleet in Europe and is due to Airways Aviation’s acquisition of Italian flight training organisation Professione Volare (announcement found here).

About Airways Aviation
With over 45 years of international experience and a growing number of education & training locations strategically positioned across Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the Airways Aviation Group boasts being the largest privately owned group of multidisciplinary aviation academies of its kind delivering first class Military and Commercial Pilot training. Our advanced education & training programs couple practical & theory techniques within courses that are designed to match the rapidly increasing demand for Military and Civil clients seeking optimum training and licensing outcomes. The Airways Aviation Group has trained more than 10,000 EASA and CASA certified commercial pilots, graduated over 25,000 cabin, ground handling and maintenance professionals, and maintains Europe’s largest fleet of Diamond DA40, Diamond DA42 aircraft along with multiple Cessna 172, Cessna 182, and Piper Seminole aircraft with a diverse range of avionics systems and retractable undercarriage.

Source: Airways Aviation

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Global Flight Training Group, Airways Aviation, Planning to Operate 3 Facilities in Italy

Global flight training group Airways Aviation, which operates pilot training academies across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, India and which has announced the acquisition of Italian pilot training organisation Professione Volare this month has shared that it is finalising the renovations and fit-out of its new Aviation Theory / Ground Training Centre located within Volandia (Italys largest Aeronautical Museum) adjacent to Milan Malpensa International Airport. Upon completion, this facility will deliver EASA-certified Theory Programs to complement the practical flying facilities in both Forli and a new fair-weather base in Southern Italy.

About Airways Aviation
With over 45 years of international experience and a growing number of education & training locations strategically positioned across Europe, the Middle East and Australia, the Airways Aviation Group boasts being the largest privately owned group of multidisciplinary aviation academies of its kind delivering first class Military and Commercial Pilot training. Our advanced education & training programs couple practical & theory techniques within courses that are designed to match the rapidly increasing demand for Military and Civil clients seeking optimum training and licensing outcomes. The Airways Aviation Group has trained more than 10,000 EASA and CASA certified commercial pilots, graduated over 25,000 cabin, ground handling and maintenance professionals, and maintains Europe’s largest fleet of Diamond DA40, Diamond DA42 aircraft along with multiple Cessna 172, Cessna 182, and Piper Seminole aircraft with a diverse range of avionics systems and retractable undercarriage.

Source: Airways Aviation

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Dutch National Carrier KLM Takes Delivery of its First Airbus A321neo Aircraft

Hamburg – Dutch national carrier KLM, member of the Air France-KLM Group, has taken delivery of its first A321neo as part of their fleet modernisation with latest generation, fuel-efficient aircraft. With the aircraft KLM joins the community of successful A321neo operators.

By selecting the A321neo, KLM brings on-board the latest technology to lower decibels and to reduce the noise footprint during take-off, approach and landing. Together with its advanced fuel efficiency, the A321neo will play a key role in KLM’s environmental ambition.

The newly delivered A321neo for KLM seats 227 passengers in a two-class layout. The cabin features Airbus’ Airspace cabin with XL bins. The larger bins provide 60% more luggage capacity for a more relaxed boarding experience for passengers and cabin crew. In addition, USB-C ports are available for passengers at every seat, and the latest lighting system enhances the overall passenger experience.

The A321neo is the largest member of Airbus’ best-selling A320neo Family, offering unparalleled range and performance. Equipped with sharklets and powered by new generation CFM International LEAP-1A engines, the A321neo brings a 50% noise footprint reduction and at least 20% fuel savings and CO₂ reduction compared to previous generation single-aisle aircraft, while maximising passenger comfort in the widest single-aisle cabin in the sky. To date, more than 6,400 A321neo aircraft have been ordered by more than 90 customers across the globe.

As with all Airbus aircraft, the A321neo aircraft is already able to operate with up to 50% Sustainable Aviation Fuel (SAF). Airbus is targeting to have its aircraft up to 100% SAF capable by 2030.

Source: Airbus
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Swedish University Acquires Two ALSIM Flight Simulators

France headquartered flight simulator manufacturer ALSIM is delighted to announce that Lund University School of Aviation (LUSA) in Sweden, has selected ALSIM for its training needs by purchasing an Airliner and an AL250 equipped with the Engineering Pack.

The AIRLINER is a hybrid simulator (Fly-by-wire and conventional control) manufactured by ALSIM to address large flight training programs for advanced training such as MCC, APS MCC, Crew Resource Management, Jet Aircraft Handling and Procedures. The versatile simulator is close to a variety of different single aisle aircraft, such as the B737MAX, A320, A220, E190-E2 or the SSJ100.

The AL250 simulator addresses initial phase training needs (PPL, CPL, IR/ME) and is SEP/MEP re–configurable simulator certified as an EASA FNPT II. In addition, it offers both classic and glass cockpit for each flight model at the simple flick of a switch. This device has been extremely well received since its creation and more than 100 of these have already been installed and are in successful operation worldwide.

The ALSIM Engineering Pack empowers engineering students to be completely independent to design and test aircraft models on the ALSIM AL250 simulator. Integrated within MATLAB® and Simulink®, it offers nearly 4,000 editable variables for endless possibilities.

Johan Bergström, Accountable Manager at Lund University School of Aviation, states: “We are looking forward to working together with the Alsim team for many years to come. Both the AL250 with its Engineering Pack and the Airliner with the possibility to change setup fit our needs perfectly in both training and research.”

Audrey Jeffroy, ALSIM Sales Director, says: “We are extremely happy and proud to welcome Lund University School of Aviation among our customers and would like to thank them for their confidence in our innovative solutions. The AIRLINER is a game changer and will play a significant role in the flight training of the students at LUSA. We look forward to seeing the first students flying in the sims!”

About Lund University School of Aviation
The dynamic world of aviation requires that Lund University School of Aviation, LUSA, maintains a high level of competence in every aspect of training. As part of Lund University, LUSA strives to continuously improve its training methods. This is done in close collaboration with our partners; airlines and the Swedish Armed Forces. As a part of a university, we have a unique possibility to achieve this goal in an evidence-based manner. Our new simulators will be part of various training and research activities. We are certified to deliver integrated ATPL training, Multi Crew Pilot License-training, remote pilot-training and continuously conduct research in topics of aviation training and safety.

About ALSIM
ALSIM has been developing and manufacturing FAA & EASA certified FNPT II, FNPT II MCC and AATD flight simulators since 1994. Alsim is well recognized for its know-how, based on 30 years of experience. We’re proud to say our hardware & software is made 100% in house, which means peace of mind for our customers. Alsim’s main objective relies on innovation: we aim to anticipate our client’s needs and remain at the cutting edge of technology. Today, we have more than 450 devices installed and certified in over 60 countries, with over 400 clients.

Source: ALSIM
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