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Manufacturer of Flight Simulators Delivers Cessna Citation Longitude Full-Flight Simulator to FlightSafety International’s Training Facility in Ohio

TRU Simulation announced the Federal Aviation Administration Level D certification and delivery of a Cessna Citation Longitude Full Flight Simulator (FFS) for FlightSafety International’s Columbus, Ohio Learning Center. The new simulator will support FlightSafety in providing quality training services for Textron Aviation’s flagship super-midsize Cessna Citation jet.

TRU Simulation + Training Inc., an affiliate of Textron Aviation Inc., is a Textron Inc. company that designs, manufactures and delivers high-fidelity training devices and full-motion flight simulators for civil and defense customers.

“At TRU, the team is committed to delivering cutting-edge training tools that enable pilots to achieve their goals,” said Jerry Messaris, vice president and general manager, TRU Simulation. “Supplying high-fidelity simulators to FlightSafety aids in expanding access to excellent aviation training for pilots across the globe, and our state-of-the-art technology ensures safe and realistic training experiences.”

FlightSafety International and TRU Simulation formed a joint venture in 2019 to better support customers’ global training needs. This will be the second Cessna Citation Longitude Full Flight Simulator delivered to the Columbus, Ohio Training Center and the third built as part of the joint venture of TRU Simulation and FlightSafety International.

About TRU Simulation
TRU Simulation + Training Inc., an affiliate of Textron Aviation Inc., is a leading provider of high-fidelity training devices and full-motion simulators for the aviation industry. With a strong commitment to excellence and innovation, TRU Simulation has been at the forefront of flight simulation technology for over a decade. Our customized simulator solutions empower pilots to navigate the skies confidently, while our state-of-the-art technology ensures safe and realistic training experiences.

About Textron Aviation
We inspire the journey of flight. For more than 95 years, Textron Aviation Inc., a Textron Inc. company, has empowered our collective talent across the Beechcraft, Cessna and Hawker brands to design and deliver the best aviation experience for our customers. With a range that includes everything from business jets, turboprops, and high-performance pistons, to special mission, military trainer and defense products, Textron Aviation has the most versatile and comprehensive aviation product portfolio in the world and a workforce that has produced more than half of all general aviation aircraft worldwide. Customers in more than 170 countries rely on our legendary performance, reliability and versatility, along with our trusted global customer service network, for affordable and flexible flight.

About Textron Inc.
Textron Inc. is a multi-industry company that leverages its global network of aircraft, defense, industrial and finance businesses to provide customers with innovative solutions and services. Textron is known around the world for its powerful brands such as Bell, Cessna, Beechcraft, Pipistrel, Jacobsen, Kautex, Lycoming, E-Z-GO, Arctic Cat, Textron Systems, and TRU Simulation.

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Pilot Assessment and Selection Solution Provider Symbiotics Announces Event Attendance in 2024

United Kingdom headquartered global pilot assessment and selection solution provider Symbiotics has shared the events that it’s team will be attending the rest of 2024. These are:

  • APATS, Singapore (September 9-11): Symbiotics will be exhibiting at the Asia Pacific Airline Training Symposium. Associate Aviation Psychologist Aleksandra Kapela will deliver two presentations—Day 1 in the Pilot Stream (Session 4) and Day 2 in the Cabin Crew Stream (Session 5). Visit them at Stand 805.
  • EAAP, Athens (September 23-26): The Psychology team will attend the European Association for Aviation Psychology. Caroline Creane, Symbiotics Psychology Consultant, will present, and the team will be networking with industry peers.
  • RAA Conference, Washington DC (September 24-25): Concurrently, Karen Moore, Symbiotics’ Principal Occupational Psychologist, will exhibit at the Regional Airline Association Conference in Washington DC.
  • ERA General Assembly, Seville (October 8-10): The team will also participate in the European Regions Airline Association General Assembly in Seville, with further announcements expected soon.
  • EATS, Portugal (November 6-7): Symbiotics will be present at the European Airline Training Symposium. Aleksandra Kapela will speak in the Pilot Stream, and the team will be available for discussions at their stand.
  • Airlines Conference, London (November 25): The year wraps up with Symbiotics attending FlightGlobal Events’ Airlines Conference in London.

About Symbiotics
Symbiotics, based in the UK, is a leading provider of psychological assessments and human performance evaluation tools for the aviation industry, helping organizations worldwide in pilot selection, training, and development.

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FMS Training Solution Provider Heading365 Celebrates Successful Partnership with European Airline

Austria – Heading365 proudly celebrated the first anniversary of its successful collaboration with Eurowings. For the past year, Heading365 have been providing them with the customized A320 FMS Trainer. Heading365’s tailored A320 FMS Trainer has helped Eurowings’s pilots enhance their skills, ensuring a more efficient training.

“Thank you to the entire Eurowings team for the fantastic collaboration,” said Heading365 in an announcement. “Heading365 looks forward to many more successful years together!”

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eLearning Pilot Training Solution Provider, Avsoft and Training Management System Solutions Provider, Qualtero Announce Partnership

Avsoft International, a leading provider of aviation eLearning content, is thrilled to announce a strategic partnership with Qualtero, an advanced Training and Qualification Management System (TQMS) provider. This collaboration will enable Qualtero’s clients to access Avsoft’s comprehensive course content seamlessly.

With a mutual commitment to improving aviation training efficiency and effectiveness, this partnership combines the strengths of both companies. Qualtero’s TMS is designed to meet the complex needs of the aviation industry, offering features such as scheduling, tracking, and reporting of training activities. Avsoft’s course library features type ratings, general subjects, and specialty courses, all designed for interactivity and engagement, and can be delivered on any LMS.

The collaboration with Qualtero ensures that aviation organizations can now manage their training programs more effectively while accessing the best educational resources available.

About Avsoft
Avsoft proudly provides pilot training solutions to airlines and ATOs around the world. Avsoft offers a wide range of effective and proven pilot training products, all available here 24/7/365.

About Qualtero
Qualtero is an industry-leading visionary of solutions to optimize commercial and military aviation training operations. Qualtero offers two powerful solutions: Fox Training Management System and Qualtero Evaluation & Qualification Solution.

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US Aviation Training Group International Aero Academy Now Garmin Fleet Dealer

Lakeland, Florida, United States – International Aero Academy, which was established in 2017 initially focusing on accelerated pilot training but has since expanded to include aircraft maintenance technician training, on-demand charter services, and an in-house FAA Part 145 repair station, has shared that it has received its approval as a Garmin Fleet Dealer.

  • IAA started with just 8 aircraft and now operates operates a fleet of 26 aircraft including Tecnam P2008, P2006T and Cessna 172 and 152 aircraft
  • Currently IAA has around 100 to 120 pilots in training at any one time
  • Training aspiring pilots from around the globe IAA has recently opened an office in India and is hoping to announce a flight training cadet program with an airline in the coming months
  • IAA provides a pathway to US low cost carrier Spirit Airlines – after reaching 500 flight hours, student pilots can apply to the airline with the possibility of receiving a conditional letter of employment upon reaching 1,500 hours.

“Congratulations to our entire team and thank you to Garmin. This week we became a Garmin Fleet Dealer. A very rare honor for a flight academy.” shared IAA.

Source: IAA

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UK Based Full Flight Simulator Training Center Signs Agreement to Purchase ProSim A322 Cockpilot Procedure Trainer

Full flight simulator training center Quadrant Pilot, based in Burgess Hill, United Kingdom and ProSim Training Solutions (ProSim), with its headquarters in Delft, the Netherlands (part of TXT group) are proud to announce their strengthened partnership as they signed an agreement for the purchase of a Skalarki built ProSimA322 Cockpit Procedures Trainer which will be equipped with the ProSim Virtual Instruction XR tool (ViXR). This agreement was finalised at Farnborough Airshow 2024, where ProSim participated as part of TXT Aerospace & Defence.

As a well-established flight training centre and already-existing user of the ProSimA322 FMS Trainers, Quadrant Pilot is at the forefront of implementing training technologies which optimise the training footprint for their airline customers and students.

Hanne Koole, Managing Director of ProSim Training Solutions comments: “We thank Simon Bill and Quadrant Pilot for their continued partnership and trust as the basis for the delivery of training equipment that is ready for the future. We look forward to keep contributing to the continued success of Quadrant Pilot as a provider of quality and value for money training for their airline customers.”

The A322 Cockpit Procedures Trainer (CPT) is a full tactile but open cockpit structure which can be placed in classroom environments for high fidelity training of all normal and abnormal procedures prior to entering the Full Motion Simulators (FFS). The time saved per student (time otherwise spent on the FFS) makes for a very rapid return on investment.

Simon Bill, Managing Director at Quadrant Pilot adds: “We are very pleased to acquire the Cockpit Procedures Trainer from Pro Sim which will be a fantastic additional training tool for our airline type rating trainees. At Quadrant we continue to strive to provide a premium training product by using the optimum blend of training tools, carefully developed courseware and best in class instructors and working with suppliers such as Pro Sim help to achieve this goal.”

The additional Virtual Instruction XR tool (ViXR) adds even more efficiency to the CPT by enabling normal and ab-normal procedures to be taught initially without an instructor and at the student’s own pace by using a Hololens 2 in combination with the CPT.

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Simulator Manufacturer, Redbird, Previews Next-Generation Mixed-Reality Platform

At EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024, Redbird Flight (Redbird) – a United States headquartered flight simulator manufacturer demonstrated a new mixed-reality platform for its product line. The technology, which combines an affordable virtual reality headset with proprietary software, is the foundation for future mixed-reality add-ons to new and existing Redbird training devices.

Redbird has been iterating on mixed reality in research and development since the company first unveiled a proof of concept at AirVenture 2022. The next-generation platform builds on the immersive visual system of the initial demonstration version—which blends the physical and digital worlds to enable pilots to see both the graphics in the simulation and the real-world flight controls through the headset—while integrating the software stack into the company’s core simulation engine and reducing the hardware necessary to operate it.

Unlike earlier demonstratable versions, the new platform runs on the core processing unit of Redbird training devices and exclusively utilizes high-resolution cameras in the headset for spatial mapping, allowing the company to reduce the cost of its mixed-reality solutions and simplify the end-user experience.

“For several years, we have been working on developing mixed-reality solutions that are practical and affordable for a variety of use cases in aviation education and training without compromising on fidelity, and we think this new platform is a promising pathway toward accomplishing that goal,” said Redbird Chief Executive Officer Todd Willinger. “It is capable of being fully integrated into the Redbird Navigator operating system, allowing us to support it and our customers to install and use it free of the hassles of off-the-shelf virtual reality offerings.”

Redbird continues to develop the technology to suit the needs of various customers, ranging from K-12 and youth outreach programs to certificated pilots and flight training programs. The Aerospace Center for Excellence (ACE) in Lakeland, Florida, will be the first aviation education organization to implement the new mixed-reality platform into its operations. ACE plans to utilize the technology throughout its programs, from engaging and educating pre-kindergarten and elementary school students to helping flight students and lapsed pilots develop visual flying skills without incurring the cost of an aircraft rental for every training session.

“Mixed-reality simulation is going to make flight training more accessible and immersive than anything we have seen in the last 50 years,” said ACE Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Eric Crump. “The platform Redbird is developing offers tremendous flexibility on one device. It could become the Swiss Army Knife of aviation education.”

“ACE is the ideal launch customer for this platform,” added Willinger. “As an industry-leading education nonprofit, it will offer insights into myriad use cases that will be immensely valuable as we develop mixed-reality solutions at scale.”

Redbird is demonstrating the new mixed-reality platform on its TD2 Basic Aviation Training Device in its booth at AirVenture. The company is planning the alpha release of a version of the platform compatible with its line of Advanced Aviation Training Devices.

About Redbird Flight
Redbird Flight of Austin, Texas, was established in 2006 with the specific purpose of making aviation more accessible by using modern technology and careful engineering. Since its inception, Redbird has delivered innovative, reliable, and high-quality training devices to flight schools, colleges, universities, K-12 schools, and individual pilots around the world. Withmore than 3,000 devices in service worldwide, Redbird has quickly become the fastest growing and most innovative simulator provider in the industry. For more information, please visit www.redbirdflight.com.

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