A multi-engine, instrument rated pilot, James Wynbrandt has been an AIN and Business Jet Traveler contributor since 2003. His in-depth reporting and insightful features have won more than a dozen editorial honors, including two National Business Aviation Association Gold Wing Awards (2019; 2021), and his articles have also appeared in the New York Times, Barron’s, Fortune, Forbes, and Smithsonian Air &amp; Space. He has flown his Mooney M20K 252 on assignments throughout North and Central America and the Caribbean. Wynbrandt is also the author of Flying High (Wiley &amp; Sons), a biography of Jet Blue founder David Neeleman, as well as histories, references works, and books on a variety of other topics from major publishers. He lives in New York City.

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Canada’s CAE (Stand 1450) has signed a long-term exclusive training contract with EasyJet to train 1,000 of the UK low cost carrier’s new cadet pilots on a multi-crew pilot license (MPL) program&nbsp;and to provide Airbus A320 type rating training for graduates of CAE’s Integrated airline transport pilot License program and place them with the airline.

 


The partnership agreement represents “a resounding endorsement of CAE’s leadership in the pilot training industry,” said Nick Leontidis, CAE group president, Civil Aviation Training Solutions.

 


Under the agreement, CAE will recruit and train aspiring pilots through the launch of the new ab initio Generation EasyJet Pilot Training Program. The program will incorporate the latest competency-based training innovations and EasyJet standard operating procedures&nbsp;and will be the first MPL course to include air traffic control simulation in the training devices.

 


Selected cadets will begin MPL training in 2020, and the first graduates will be serving as EasyJet first officers by the end of 2021.

 


Calling safety “EasyJet's greatest priority,” EasyJet interim COO&nbsp;David Morgan&nbsp;said, “We are delighted to be partnering with CAE as our pilot training partner of choice. The professionalism and skill of our pilots are in part due to our investment in training and technology.”

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