Flight simulators play an essential role in maintaining the exceptional level of safety that commercial airlines offer the traveling public. Modern flight simulators are available for all types of commercial aircraft, with mock cockpits that include...

A flight simulator is a system that tries to replicate, or simulate, the experience of flying an aircraft as closely and realistically as possible. The different types of flight simulator range from video games up to full-size cockpit replicas mounted...

Business aviation is taking off -- and demand for pilots is along for the ride.As a result, CAE CGT, a supplier of flight simulators and provider of flight training services, is set to open its first business aviation training center for the northeastern U.S. It...

The international airline industry, faced with a growing passenger load and a shortage of pilots, is ready to graduate its first flight crews from a shortened training program that experts warn may not be good enough.The new curriculum _ known as the Multi-crew Pilots License...

U.S. airline stocks dropped Thursday as carriers continued to struggle with high fuel prices and maintenance, though AirTran Holdings Inc. increased second-quarter profits by cutting costs in other areas.Tempe, Ariz.-based US Airways Group Inc. said its second-quarter earnings fell 14 percent, but results topped Wall...

Special teams of regulators, airline and airport personnel will be sent to study runway safety over the next two months at more than 20 airports with the most runway problems.That was one of five short-term steps agreed to Wednesday at a daylong conference called by...