Training aircraft manufacturer Piper Aircraft delivered a new Pilot 100i to global pilot training group’s Skyborne’s Florida – Vero Beach Campus recently. This delivery signifies the successful acquisition of the second aircraft out of the planned 11 for Skyborne’s growing fleet.
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Flight training is a critical phase in the journey of aspiring pilots, and flight schools often encounter various challenges that can hinder their effectiveness. True Course Simulations, a pioneering company specializing in Virtual Reality (VR) flight training, offers innovative solutions to address these challenges, benefiting both students and flight schools alike.
Better Prepared Students
Flight schools want their students to be well-prepared for their flights. True Course Simulations achieves this by providing immersive VR training environments that allow students to practice and refine their skills in a safe and controlled setting. This ensures that students gain essential knowledge and confidence before they ever step into an actual aircraft.
Reduced Training Hours
Flight training can be expensive and time-consuming. True Course Simulations helps students achieve their licenses more efficiently by offering realistic VR scenarios that allow for repeated practice without the limitations of aircraft availability or weather conditions. This can significantly reduce the number of flight hours required for certification.
Shortage of Instructors and High Student Ratios
With VR training, flight schools can alleviate the burden of instructor shortages and high student-to-instructor ratios. Virtual instructors can guide multiple students simultaneously, offering personalized feedback and guidance, thereby improving the learning experience and ensuring more efficient progress.
Weather, Maintenance, and Instructor Availability
Aircraft downtime due to weather, maintenance, or instructor unavailability can disrupt training schedules. True Course Simulations mitigates these issues by offering consistent access to training scenarios regardless of external factors. This continuity ensures that students can maintain a steady learning pace.
Remedial Training
For students who require extra training or remediation, True Course Simulations provides an ideal platform. Students can revisit challenging scenarios, practice emergency procedures, and improve specific skills until they reach proficiency, all within a controlled and supportive VR environment.
Eliminating Gaps Between Flights
The gaps between flights, caused by various factors, can hinder student progress. With VR training, students can continue their learning and skill development during these downtime periods, ensuring that they stay engaged and retain what they’ve learned.
Emergency Training
True Course Simulations allows flight schools to simulate emergencies in a safe and controlled environment. Students can practice responding to critical situations, honing their decision-making skills and improving their ability to handle emergencies during actual flights.
Cost Reduction
The cost of flight training can be a barrier to aspiring pilots. VR training reduces costs associated with fuel, aircraft maintenance, and instructor fees. This can make flight training more affordable and accessible, helping students pursue their dreams of becoming pilots.
Reducing Carbon Emissions
Flight schools are increasingly concerned about environmental impact. By reducing the need for actual flight hours, True Course Simulations helps flight schools contribute to lower carbon emissions, aligning with sustainability goals and mandates.
Assessment and Readiness Insights
True Course Simulations offers flight schools valuable insights into their students’ abilities and readiness. Schools can track progress, identify areas for improvement, and ensure that only students truly prepared for flight are sent up in the air, maximizing safety and efficiency.
True Course Simulations provides a transformative solution to many of the challenges faced by flight schools. By leveraging virtual reality technology, they enhance training efficiency, reduce costs, and improve safety, ultimately helping students achieve their goals and ensuring flight schools can operate more effectively in a rapidly changing aviation landscape.
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True Course Simulations (TCS), a virtual reality (VR) simulator manufacturer for flight schools, announced that it will attend the upcoming FSANA 2024 Conference & Trade Show in Ceasars Palace Las Vegas on February 21-23, 2024.
In November 2023 True Course Simulations launched a new ITD Lite immersive flight simulator for broader accessibility in flight training.
True Course Simulations designs and manufactures motion ITDs for Cessna Aircraft Company C172 and Diamond Aircraft DA40 aircraft. These ITDs provide a realistic and immersive flight training experience for students, allowing them to practice and hone their skills in a safe and controlled environment.
To complement the ITDs, True Course Simulations also offers a full Private Pilot courseware solution that is delivered by a virtual instructor. This syllabus, featuring over 70 lessons, provides students with unlimited opportunities to practice and receive real-time feedback.
In addition, the embedded Learning Management System (LMS) also allows students, instructors and managers to monitor progress through the course and identify those who are doing well and those who may benefit from additional support.
True Course Simulations ITD and courseware flight training solution represent a significant advancement in flight education. By providing students with a realistic and immersive training environment, TCS is bridging the gap between the book and the aircraft and thus helping revolutionise the way pilots are trained in the 21st Century.
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Flight Schedule Pro, a leading provider of cloud-based business management software for flight schools, universities, flying clubs, and other aviation operations is pleased to announce that – for a second year – it has successfully completed its System and Organization Controls (SOC) 2 Type II certification. The SOC 2 was developed by the American Institute of CPAs (AICPA) to allow a third-party auditor to validate a service company’s internal controls with respect to information security.
Successful completion of the SOC 2 Type II audit further reinforces Flight Schedule Pro’s ongoing commitment to take security and compliance seriously.
The SOC 2 audit is one of the highest recognized standards of information security compliance in the world. At Flight Schedule Pro, the audit was completed in partnership with Johanson Group, who respectively reviewed internal controls including policies, procedures, and infrastructure regarding data security, firewall configurations, change management, logical access, backup management, business continuity and disaster recovery, security incident response, and other critical areas of the Flight Schedule Pro business.
Thanks to a company-wide effort at Flight Schedule Pro, and with the help of Johanson Group and its Drata Compliance Automation system, Flight Schedule Pro has successfully achieved ongoing SOC 2 compliance. By leveraging its Drata Compliance Automation System, the Flight Schedule Pro team has gone above and beyond the minimum requirements for SOC 2 – by integrating with critical infrastructure to monitor compliance to the SOC 2 framework 24/7/365.
Clients and prospects of Flight Schedule Pro can learn more and access the FSP SOC2 report at Flight Schedule Pro Trust Center.
“Our SOC2 is a clear differentiator to our discriminating customers who value security and privacy. Data security is core to our business at Flight Schedule Pro. Achieving ongoing SOC 2 compliance underscores our commitment to building and maintaining a culture dedicated to safeguarding our customer data.” – Nick Wegner, Flight Schedule Pro CEO
Earlier in January FSP shared its 2023 Milestones and Achievements: By the Numbers
In 2023, both Flight Schedule Pro and LogTen achieved remarkable milestones. The user base experienced significant growth, and the cumulative number of flights logged reached unprecedented heights. These achievements are not merely statistics; they represent the value their platforms bring to the lives of pilots, instructors, flight schools, and the overall aviation industry. Here’s a glimpse of the numbers to show the impact.
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