Flight of Fantasy!

Sixth Form students visit Alteon Flight Training Centre

As part of the ICT A level course students in Lower Six visited Alteon Flight Training Centre in Manchester on Tuesday 17 March. Alteon operates as a wholly owned subsidiary of The Boeing Company within Boeing Commercial Airplanes’ Commercial Aviation Services (CAS).

Taken from the Alteon Website, here is a flavour of what they offer:
‘Alteon’s role is to support the world’s airlines, it works globally with regulatory authorities to shape the training that establishes industry standards. Airlines rely on Alteon for a wide variety of total training solutions. Many of these solutions step beyond the normal bounds of traditional center-based training to include delivering maintenance training to any facility. Further, web-based distance learning makes Alteon training available anywhere, any time, reducing travel costs and time away from primary duties. Regardless of fleet mix – Boeing, Airbus, McDonnell Douglas or Fokker – airlines turn to Alteon for training solutions.’

Our students had the opportunity of seeing and using the CBT equipment, Fixed Training devices and Simulation equipment. They experienced how diagnostic software runs to manage problems and how administration systems work for booking such equipment.

What the girls had to say...