Fiji’s National Airline which has embarked on a $FJ67 million-dollar development to enhance the Fiji Airways Aviation Academy (FJAA) based in Namaka, Nadi. Including investment will see the addition of;

• Airbus A350 full flight simulator
• ATR-600 full flight simulator
• Boeing 737 MAX flight training devices
• Airbus A330 flight training devices

The Academy buildings will be expanded with the addition of a fourth simulator bay and repurposing of some existing training rooms to create a dedicated facility for fixed base training devices.

Fiji Airways Aviation Academy has shared through its Flight Simulator Engineer Abhisharti A. that a team from Fiji Airways Aviation Academy conducted the Airbus A350 full flight simulator in plant acceptance at CAE in Montreal in Canada.

In 2023 company Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer Mr Andre Viljoen said: “This is a significant step in the growth of FJAA, enhancing the Academy’s flight crew training facilities and enabling us to conduct all of Fiji Airways and Fiji Link pilot training in-house, resulting in improved pilot productivity and more cost savings in flight crew training. By July 2024, the academy will house four full flight simulators covering all of Fiji Airways fleet types, and four fixed base synthetic training devices,”.

All technical assessment and training in-house from initial assessment of potential cadets through to type rating and recurrent training of pilots will then be conducted in-house.

Source: Abhisharti A. (Fiji Airways)