Wanted in next 20 years: about 500,000 airline pilots and 600,000 maintenance technicians to safely fly and maintain a world fleet of 40,000 highly complex aircraft carrying billions of passengers.

A new €10m state of the art pilot training simulator for ATR aircraft has been launched in Dublin. The ATR 72-600 simulator is based at Simtech Aviation near Dublin Airport and will be used to train ...

I visited one of my favorite Long Island places last week, the Cradle of Aviation Museum, in Garden City, NY http://www.cradleofaviation.org/ The museum has its own ...

The US Navy and the Office of Naval Research Global (ONR Global) are developing a simulator program to train aircraft carrier flight deck crews in a virtual environment. The expandable, immersive 3D ...

The wide-body aircraft simulator will expand P7 Aviation’s training offering from the current Airbus A320 and Boeing 737 Classic training capability and seeks to support Boeing 747 operators ...

It is a simulator of the driver's seat of the airplane, but it seems to put all the control stick, switch and panel. Moreover, it seems that the inclination of the aircraft can be reproduced. The ...

The NF-16D VISTA aircraft is currently being upgraded to remove some limitations and better support autonomy testing for the Air Force Research Laboratory’s Skyborg program. The NF-16D VISTA (Variable ...

Software-based simulation and modeling tools for aircraft can be divided, roughly, into three interrelated functional categories: design and model building, analysis or problem solving, and ...

For the latest iteration of its longstanding series, Microsoft has incorporated all manner of impressive next-generation tech. Photorealistic visuals, cloud-streaming, and real-time air traffic come ...

Why practise in a simulator when an aircraft provides a more realistic experience? Well, for a start, it does not. A training device can teach a pilot to prepare for a host of scenarios and ultimately ...