Wizz Air first to implement two new Airbus training solutions

Wizz Air has become the first airline to adopt the Mobile Airbus Training experience (MATe) suite and Virtual Procedure Trainer (VPT) technology for pilot training, which have both been integrated into the airline’s training centre in Budapest. The solutions will support pilots undergoing initial and recurrent type training. While the cloud-based service platform MATe offers ‘e-training and exams for different pilot training categories’, the VPT software solution ‘immerses and coaches pilot trainees within a virtual cockpit individually, allowing them to rehearse or familiarise themselves with the Airbus cockpit features and respective procedures’. The VR tool and A320 type transition course