Airborne-Flight Training 05.26.22: Sonaca Halts, AMT School Regs, Sporty’s Training App

Also: AEA Training Excellence Awards, Frontier Airlines & UND, Falcon 6x FFS, JSX Taps Skyborne

Surprisingly; Sonaca Aircraft announced that it will cease production of its S200 aircraft. Sonaca CEO Yves DeLatte describes the measure as a “necessary decision… ” engendered by the COVID-19 pandemic’s adverse impact on general aviation and, in particular, pilot training. Sonaca Aircraft, a subsidiary of the Belgian Aerospace conglomerate Sonaca Group, has committed to offer employment to all employees formerly engaged in the production of the S200. The FAA has published its interim final rule regarding the modernization of Aviation Maintenance Technician schools, now open for public comment. The interim rule uses a performance-based regulation that offloads some of the process of curriculum management and development towards technical educational organizations, freeing the education system from the slow pace of bureaucracy. Sporty’s latest edition of their Pilot Training software is now available for Apple Computer users, and natively accessible on Macbooks, iMac, or Mac Pro. Sporty’s also stated that the training program is also available in offline mode so that learners can interact with the content regardless of whether they have an active internet connection. All this -- and MORE in today's episode of Airborne!!!

This episode of Airborne-Flight Training 05.26.22 is chock full of info in this Daily News Episode, Thursday, May 26th, 2022... Presented by Aero-TV veteran videographer and Airborne Host Holland Lee. Holland is supported by ANN Chief Videographer Nathan Cremisino, as well as ANN CEO/Editor-In-Chief Jim Campbell. This episode covers:

Sonaca To Halt Production Of S200 Training Aircraft
FAA Publishes Interim Rule for AMT Schools
Sporty’s Training App: Now On Apple Mac’s
AEA Announces 2021 Training Excellence Awards
Frontier Airlines Gains Pipeline To UND
CAE Announces Dassault Falcon 6x Full-Flight SIM
JSX Taps Skyborne Airline Academy For Pilots

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[travismcqueen]

Now just a minute, in the 5/2/22 report from AeroNews, Sonaca was reported to expand the product line of the 200? What gives?

[speedomars]

As I said long ago...the Sonaca and garbage old school designs like them are useless. It was a light sport made from aluminium, rivets and a bubble canopy cockpit. The last metal light sport plane similar, also bankrupt, the Cessna Skycatcher. Note the Bristell is similar but made from carbon fiber instead of metal. It has a larger engine in the 915iS...but is a bubble canopy design. For now the Bristell has a niche...the better light sports are high wing with a roomy cabin and a robust fixed gear design, like the Flight Design F2 or the STOLs like Rans and Carbon Cubs.