KSL

Utah State University 'takes flight' with advanced airline pilot training program

Utah State University is transforming aviation education with its newly upgraded advanced airline pilot training program, ...
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Using a Home-Based Flight Simulator as an Airline Pilot

For those who have been around the airline industry for a while, it is well known that change is a constant, and even minor updates to procedures or systems can have a significant impact on front-line ...
TMCnet

PHI Air Medical Becomes First Air Ambulance Operator in the Americas to Train Pilots with VR Flight Simulation--Using Loft Dynamics' Simulator

PHI transports more than 22,500 patients each year across 82 bases nationwide, operating more than 100 helicopters and logging more than 12.5 million flight hours. With Loft Dynamics' VR simulator now ...
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Alaska Airlines To Usher In New Pilot Training Era With Full-Motion Boeing 737 VR Simulators

Through its venture capital arm, Alaska Airlines is investing in the development of next-generation simulators that will help make pilot training more efficient. These full-motion Boeing 737 VR ...
TravelPulse

Alaska Airlines Invests in State-of-the-Art Boeing 737 Pilot Training

Alaska Airlines is making a crucial investment in pilot training, a little more than one year after it became entangled in the ongoing Boeing 737 drama. The carrier, which is in the midst of merging ...
Forbes

Pilots Are Learning To Fly Helicopters In VR, Thanks To This Swiss Startup

A pilot trains on a Loft Dynamics simulator for an Airbus H125 helicopter at Marshall University in Huntington, West Virginia. I am hovering in a valley in the Swiss Alps on a beautiful day in a ...
Yahoo

I toured American's pilot training academy, where new hires use flight simulators to skill up on Boeing and Airbus jets

American Airlines employs more than 15,000 pilots to fly its fleet of Airbus and Boeing planes. New hires spend 19 days doing ground and simulator training before flying passengers. Students train for ...
Flying

How to Use a Flight Simulator to Log Training Time and Save Money

Flight simulators, specifically FAA-approved Aviation Training Devices (BATDs and AATDs), are recognized as valuable tools that extend beyond personal practice into formal flight school environments.
Aviation Week

Emirates New Training Facility To Offer A350, 777X Flight Simulators

Credit: Emirates Airlines Dubai-based Emirates Airline reports that it will open its advanced pilot training facility later in 2024. The 63,318 ft.2 facility accommodates six full-flight simulator ...
Stars and Stripes

Spending on simulators would improve Air Force pilot training, report says

The Air Force should invest more in sophisticated flight simulators to better ensure that pilots can handle combat missions not easily rehearsed in the air, according to a new study commissioned by ...
TravelPulse

United Airlines to Build Flight Simulators in Denver

We love to speculate in this country, and speculation ran rampant that United Airlines was looking to move headquarters from Chicago to Denver after numerous trips by CEO Scott Kirby to the western ...