In 2023, Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam based full flight simulator training center BAA Training Vietnam, a branch of global pilot training group BAA Training, has completed the A320 training for 128 Indian cadet pilots (including Initial Type Rating and Renewal). Most of these pilots were from pilot training facilitator TNC Aviation in Delhi, India.
Source: Steven Huang (BAA Training Vietnam)
Photo Credit: BAA Training Vietnam (shown as meta image)
Airbus’s Miami, United States based full flight simulator training center, Airbus Americas Training Center, has appointed Armoando Ernesto Portillo Castillo as Business Operations Director.
The Airbus Training Centre in Miami serves as a center of excellence for the Americas. Built in 1999, the $50 million facility complements facilities around the globe, providing training for Airbus customers’ flight and cabin crew, as well as maintenance personnel.
The custom-designed, 110,000-square-foot complex features a range of full-flight simulators, as well as cabin door and slide trainers and state-of-the-art computer-based training programs. Approximately 2,000 trainees from Airbus airline operators in the U.S., Canada and Latin America take courses annually in Miami under the direction of 70 Airbus employees.
Source: Armando Ernesto Portillo Castillo and Airbus
Quadrant Pilot, a UK based Approved Training Organisation(ATO) delivering pilot training courses for A320 and B737 NG/Classic, has selected VRpilot’s procedure training platform, VRflow, for enhanced interactive procedure training on the A320 and B737 NG.
Simon Bill, Managing Director & Accountable Manager, Quadrant Pilot: “The integration of Virtual Reality to facilitate procedural training within several courses has been well received by a number of Quadrant Pilot’s airline customers. We are pleased to be working with the team at VRpilot providing innovative training tools which are proving to be a great addition to our instructor toolkit.”
Daniel Maass, CEO, VRpilot: ”We are thrilled to provide Quadrant Pilot, a high standard training provider, with the next generation of training devices to enhance their courses.”
Quadrant Pilot will run VRflow on Pico 4 Enterprise headsets.
Source: VRpilot
Global Training & Aviation (GTA), which operates full flight simualtor training centers across Europe, Asia and Latin America shared a short video of its integration of virtual reality (VR) technology into pilot training. Check it out below.
Source: Global Training & Aviation
Sharjah, United Arab Emirates based full flight simulator training center Pier Seven Aviation congratulated its latest batch of 14 B737 NG Indian pilots who completed their type rating training. This is the 10th batch under the B737 NG program.
Source: Pier Seven Aviation
Photo Credit: Pier Seven Aviation (shown as meta image)
