• LAT prepares Helvetic Airways crews for flying the new Embraer E190-E2 type aircraft  
• Certification of new E2 full-flight simulator completed at Zurich LAT training center
• Bundling of Helvetic Airways crew training in Zurich

Following successful certification, Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT) has put an Embraer E190-E2 full flight simulator into operation at its Zurich training location. This has created the best conditions for LAT to expand its partnership with Helvetic Airways and other customers with a complete on-site solution for the training of flight and cabin crews.

Matthias Spohr to lead LAT from February 1, 2021 together with Tiziana Heilig (CFO)

Change within the management of LAT: Matthias Spohr, previously Flight Operations Manager and Head of Flight Ops Standards and Engineering at Eurowings, will become the new Managing Director of Lufthansa Aviation Training in Munich. He succeeds Stephan Klar, who has rotated out of his role as Managing Director of Lufthansa Aviation Training on December 31, 2020, and has taken on a follow-on position within the Lufthansa Group. Matthias Spohr's move to LAT, whose fortunes he will steer together with Tiziana Heilig (CFO), will take place on February 1, 2021. A decision on Matthias Spohr's successor at Eurowings will be made soon. 

Lilium, the Munich-based aviation company developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing aircraft (eVTOL) for regional air mobility, announces today an industry-first partnership with Lufthansa Aviation Training (LAT, member of the Lufthansa Group). Together, Lilium and LAT will develop a tailor made Pilot Sourcing and Training programme to qualify pilots to fly the Lilium Jet. 

• Full Flight Simulator Level D available from August 27, 2020 at LAT training center in Frankfurt 

• Training further education for helicopter pilots with latest state-of-the-art simulator technology  

• Entering new markets in the field of the helicopter training segment in close cooperation with the Academy of the HEMS operator DRF Luftrettung 

Ready for training: Lufthansa Aviation Training puts its first own helicopter simulator into service after receiving approval from the German Federal Aviation Authority. A new Level D full-flight simulator of the Airbus H145/135 type has joined the existing training fleet at the Frankfurt training location since August 27, 2020 and is available to customers for training. As a HEMS operator with decades of experience and the world's largest operator of the H145 in civil aviation, the DRF Luftrettung with its academy in Wet Training trains helicopter pilots.