Airbus is taking a bottom-up approach to filling a looming airline pilot shortage – by expanding its own training system to include ab initio schooling. By starting with raw beginners, Airbus hopes to ...

flydubai, the Dubai-based carrier, announced recently the launch of its Ab Initio Pilot Training programme, in partnership with international overseas flight training partners. This initiative comes ...

BAA Training, an independent aviation training center, has expanded its ab initio flight school in Europe — adding one more flight base in Spain. The company, currently operating in Lithuania and ...

The service says its M-345 offers capabilities turboprops cannot match and has already employed the trainer to emulate cruise missiles in an aggressor role during a NATO exercise. Having recently ...

The Civil Aviation Flight University of China (CAFUC) has started its first helicopter ab-initio technician training programme, in co-operation with Eurocopter. The programme "signals the start of a ...

Somant Heeralal (left) and Yadram Ramcharran were selected to learn to fly helicopters, and they will eventually train to fly offshore. © Omni Helicopters International ...