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CAE will open a new training center in Seoul to train pilots for the Boeing 737-800. CAE Seoul, to be located near Seoul Gimpo Airport, will be ready for training by the fall. It will initially feature a 737-800 full-flight simulator and Integrated Procedures Trainer. Additional training capability will be added as needed to serve carriers in South Korea and Japan....More

Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) and Ulyanovsk Higher Civil Aviation School (UHCAS) have signed an MOU for a long-term training partnership under which they will co-develop flight training programs for “modern aircraft” in the Russian Federation. OAA will place a Boeing 737 full-flight simulator at UHCAS’s training center....More

SuperJet International’s (SJI) training center in Venice has received Italian Civil Aviation Authority certification to provide Airbus A320 family aircraft training on a full flight simulator (FFS). The FFS was transferred in November from the Alitalia training center in Rome to the SJI training center. SJI is a joint venture between Finmeccanica company Alenia Aermacchi and Sukhoi Holding. The A320 FFS allows SJI to extend services beyond Sukhoi Superjet 100 training provided on an SSJ100 FFS at the SJI training center in Zhukovsky, Moscow....More

CAE has received regulatory approval from the Civil Aviation Authority Czech Republic for its Boeing 737-800 full-flight simulator (FFS). The FFS is now qualified to JAA/EASA Level D JAR-STD 1A standards, the industry’s highest benchmark, and is ready for pilot training....More

Baltic Aviation Academy has added Airbus A330 and A340 type rating trainings to its list of training programs. Thales UK received a contract from British Airways (BA) to supply one Airbus A380 full-flight simulator. It will be delivered to the BA Flight Training Center in January 2013, initially used to provide advance training for BA pilots and aircrew....More

Oxford Aviation Academy (OAA) concluded a new five-year training services and support agreement with Norwegian Air Shuttle. Under terms, OAA will construct a dedicated three-classroom facility in Oslo solely for the use by the LCC and will purchase a new Boeing 737-800 full-flight simulator. The new simulator is expected to be certified and fully operational by the third quarter 2012....More

CAE won three new contracts for full-flight simulators—an Airbus A320 FFS for Aeroflot and an A320 and a Boeing 737 for the Zhuhai Flight Training Centre. Sabena Flight Academy inked an agreement with Cathay Pacific Airways to implement its Lateral Maneuvering Motion training tool across the entire fleet of CX and Dragonair full-flight simulators....More

Sim Industries received an order from Pan Am International Flight Academy for one Level D Boeing 737NG full-flight simulator, which will be installed at its Miami training center in July. The company said the 737-800W full motion simulator “uses state of the art motion and visual systems to give the industry's most realistic 737 training platform."...More

Jordan Airline Training & Simulation was selected by Air Arabia's aviation training arm, Alpha Aviation UAE, to provide pilot and ground school aviation training, to launch its Multi-crew Pilot License program. The JATS simulator portfolio includes Boeing 767-300ER FFS, Airbus A310-300, A320-200, A320-200 FFS, 737-800NG and Embraer E-170/190....More

An ICAO study released Thursday estimates that demand for aviation personnel will reach 2 million by the year 2030 and reveals a shortfall of training capacity in existing facilities, equivalent to 160,000 pilots, 360,000 maintenance personnel and 40,000 air traffic controllers....More

Boeing Training & Flight Services reached a long-term agreement with Blue1 to provide 717 training capabilities in Stockholm beginning in the first quarter. Blue1 currently operates five 717s and is scheduled to add four additional 717s to its fleet by the end of March....More

Mechtronix Systems will supply Mexico-based Interjet with one A320 FFS X simulator for its new training facility in Toluca. It will be Interjet’s first FFS and the first A320 full motion simulator to be installed in Mexico in 12 years. Interjet operates a fleet of 22 A320s and awaits delivery of 12 more....More