infoWERK Provides New Online Course for Flight Crew, New Partnership

The company has created the In-flight check of the landing distance at time of arrival course. In addition, infoWERK as well as struck a new partnership with Air Service Center Srl.

This course is required by EASA since August 2021 and shall ensure that the commander before commencing an approach to land shall carry out a landing distance assessment to guarantee a safe approach and landing.

For this, the commander shall be satisfied that, according to the information available, the weather at the aerodrome and the condition of the runway intended to be used would not prevent a safe approach, landing or missed approach, considering the information contained in the operations manual (OM); and carry out a landing distance assessment.

Therefore, flight crew members should be trained on the use of the RCR, on the use of performance data for the assessment of the LDTA, and on reporting braking action using the AIREP format.

The course has a duration of two hours includes besides a detailed description of the RCR format and content, the RWYCC and the RCAM following topics: take-off and landing distance, take-off on contaminated runways, flight planning considerations and more.

Air Service Center Srl (ASC), with its four bases, will use infoWERK’s Learning Management System – to deliver PPL(H) courses for its students at its flight school location in Arena Po (PV), Italy.

ASC school was establsihed in 1987 and over the years has become one of the top flying schools in Italy. To date, the ASC school has trained hundreds of helicopter pilots who continue to provide professional service in some of Italy's top companies, as well as in highly demanding sectors, such as mountain rescue, aerial work and passenger transport. ASC has now at its disposal a fleet made of various helicopters, among them Agusta, Eurocopter or Schweizer.

The flight school offers numerous courses, designed to enable students to acquire a range of different flying licences: PPL(H), CPL(H), ATPL (H), IR etc. but is also specialized in the attainment, renewal and reinstatement of Type Ratings AS350 / EC130, A109 / AW109E, HU269 / HU369, CABRI G2.