Aircraft Training Solutions LLC

08/04/2026

Here is a great opportunity with Boeing!
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07/21/2026

A great way to get started on your aviation career! Aircraft maintenance technicians will always be needed regardless of AI!

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🚨 Ready for a career that's anything but ordinary? 🚨

The next Airborne Tech Aircraft Maintenance Technician class starts this September!

Train for a career in aviation maintenance, gain hands-on experience, and take the first step toward becoming an aircraft mechanic. Whether you're just graduating, looking for a career change, or looking for a new challenge, there's never been a better time to get started.

✈️ Work around aircraft
🔧 Learn valuable technical skills
📚 Build toward a rewarding aviation career

Seats are limited, so don't wait!
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📅 Classes begin in September
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07/01/2026

“The FAA issued an Airworthiness Directive (AD) to address uncontrollable cabin and flight deck overheating in Boeing 737 MAX aircraft, caused by a circuit breaker fault that disrupts the environmental control system.

The directive requires immediate flight manual updates and operational procedure changes for pilots.Affected AircraftThe directive covers 2,119 airplanes worldwide, including 771 U.S.-registered aircraft:Boeing 737 MAX 8Boeing 737 MAX 9Boeing 737 MAX 8-200

Root Cause
The problem traces to an unintended electrical ground signal triggered by a tripped circuit breaker in the Standby Power Control Unit. This fault causes the aircraft's ram air door actuators to close, shutting off the outside cooling air needed for the heat exchangers.

As a result, hot engine bleed air enters the cabin without being cooled, leading to rapidly rising, uncontrollable temperatures that could potentially incapacitate the crew.

Required Actions
To mitigate the risk until Boeing engineers a permanent technical solution, airlines must follow specific FAA mandates:

Manual Revisions: Operators are required to update their Airplane Flight Manuals with new non-normal checklists.

Pilot Procedures: Flight crews are instructed to initiate a controlled descent and manage heat sources (e.g., dimming lights, turning off galleys, or opening the cockpit door).

Breaker Protocol: The procedures outline specific steps for attempting a single reset of the affected circuit breaker.”

05/15/2026

AMES is looking for an inspection professional or someone willing to learn.

Join our team in Wilmington, OH and play a critical role in ensuring the safety, compliance, and airworthiness of our customers’ aircraft.

This position supports heavy, component, and line maintenance while delivering high standards of quality and precision.

If you have an A&P license and experience with large aircraft, we want to hear from you!

Apply today and help keep aviation moving forward: https://f.mtr.cool/befvjxsatf

05/12/2026

A great opportunity for kids interested in aviation!

Future aviators, don’t miss this! ✈️

ATSG Aviation Camp is a FREE, hands-on experience for students in grades 6 to 12 who want to explore careers in aviation. From simulators to maintenance and flight operations, this is your chance to dive into the industry and see it up close.

Applications close this Friday. Apply now and take the first step toward your future in aviation.

Learn more and apply at: https://www.atsginc.com/responsibility/community/aviation-camp

05/09/2026

And they aren't the only freight carriers adding buses to their fleets.

One of Boeing’s most loyal cargo airlines has just made a dramatic switch to Airbus, and it says a lot about where the future of air freight is heading.

Atlas Air, the world’s largest operator of Boeing 747 freighters, has ordered up to 40 Airbus A350F cargo jets in a move many in aviation are already calling one of the biggest symbolic defeats Boeing has suffered in the freight market for years.

For decades, Atlas built its empire around Boeing aircraft. The airline became almost synonymous with the 747 freighter. But now, with the legendary jumbo jet gone, the aging 777F nearing the limits of future emissions rules, and Boeing’s next-generation 777-8F still delayed, Atlas appears to have decided it cannot wait any longer.

Instead, it is betting heavily on Airbus.

The A350F promises lower fuel burn, lower emissions and dramatically newer technology at a time when cargo airlines are under growing pressure to modernize fast.

In many ways, this is bigger than a single aircraft order.

It is one of Boeing’s biggest freight customers quietly signaling that the future may no longer belong to Boeing alone.

04/27/2026

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Fedex Express will bring its McDonnell Douglas MD-11 freighters back into service, with operations expected to resume in May. “They’re ready to go,” said Richard W. Smith, chief operating officer, international, and chief executive, airline. Smith made the comment during a Wings Club presentation in New York.

The MD-11 has long been a backbone of FedEx’s long-haul cargo operations, despite its gradual phase-out in favor of newer aircraft. However, recent market conditions, including strong cargo demand and fleet constraints, have pushed the airline to reactivate stored aircraft.

The temporary grounding of the global MD-11 fleet created a noticeable capacity gap, particularly on intercontinental routes. With safety concerns addressed, FedEx now sees an opportunity to reintroduce the trijet into active service.

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04/17/2026

Opportunities with Boeing

Boeing is on a hiring spree.

According to a Reuters report, the American planemaker is hiring between 100 and 140 factory workers every week, the fastest pace since 2024. Boeing's unionized factory workforce in the Pacific Northwest has now topped 34,000.

"We're seeing strong interest as we hire in Puget Sound and across the enterprise to support our production rate increases," a Boeing spokesperson told Reuters.

The hiring surge is tied to two major pushes. Boeing is ramping up 737 MAX production toward a target of 47 aircraft per month and staffing up a brand new fourth Seattle-area production line, known as the North Line, at its Everett facility.

Boeing is also staffing up for the 777X widebody, which is still awaiting certification.

Demand is there. Boeing's backlog now stands at more than 6,127 unfilled orders, including 4,368 aircraft from the 737 family alone. At a rate of 47 narrowbodies per month, the existing backlog would take close to eight years to clear.

The hiring push also reflects a wave of retirements. Jon Holden, a senior union leader at the International Association of Machinists, called it "a sustained ramp that I feel good about, as long as the economy continues to go, as long as airlines continue to keep their orders."

Boeing delivered 143 aircraft in the first quarter of 2026, including 113 737 MAX jets. The company delivered 600 aircraft in all of 2025, its highest total since 2018.

04/16/2026

ATC Opportunities opening.

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04/16/2026

One of the best Boeing aircraft ever built!

When Boeing set out to build the 757 in the late 1970s, nobody expected it to become a legend. It was designed to replace the aging Boeing 727 on short and medium range routes. A workhorse. Nothing more.

Instead, it turned into one of the most capable and beloved airliners ever built.

The first 757 took flight on February 19, 1982. From the outside, it looked unassuming. But the moment it was in the air, pilots realized they were flying something different. Its Rolls-Royce RB211 and Pratt and Whitney PW2000 engines could produce up to 43,500 pounds of thrust. On a narrow body aircraft that size, it was almost too much power.

Pilots started calling it overpowered. One Boeing 757 captain said the acceleration felt more like a military jet than a commercial airliner. "An overpowered beast and a delight to fly," he wrote.

That power gave the 757 capabilities no other airliner in its class could match. It could take off from short runways. It could operate from high altitude airports where thinner air crushes the performance of other jets.

Then came the moment that cemented its legend. On March 29, 1991, a Boeing 757 took off, circled, and landed at Gonggar Airport in Tibet, 11,621 feet above sea level, surrounded by peaks over 16,400 feet high. It did all of this on just one engine.

The 757 also did something nobody expected. It started flying across oceans. After getting extended range approval in 1986, airlines began using it on long, thin transatlantic routes that were too small for wide body jets.

Boeing built 1,050 of them between 1982 and 2004. Then production ended. Boeing never built a true successor.

More than 40 years later, the 757 is still flying. Delta Air Lines operates the largest fleet in the world, with 90 aircraft still in service as of early 2026. United and Icelandair still fly it too.

Airlines have tried to replace it with the Airbus A321XLR and the Boeing 767-300, but no aircraft built today can do everything the 757 does.
There is a reason pilots still smile when they talk about it. A reason airlines refuse to let it go.