We are pleased to unveil our pilot conference programme for the 2021 World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) from June 15-16 in Orlando, FL, USA, at the Rosen Shingle Creek Resort.
WATS addresses the current and future training issues affecting your business, from personnel selection and recruitment, to regulation and training technologies. It offers unrivalled opportunities to meet with the key decision makers and influencers within the international airline training community, and allows attendees to discuss the latest training technologies and techniques to improve operational safety and efficiency for pilot, cabin crew, and maintenance training.
You may have heard some say ‘forget a piloting career’; no new pilots will be needed because so many experienced pilots are now grounded. Don’t lose faith, encourages Captain John Bent, FRAeS.
With the Australian ‘Jobkeeper’ wage subsidy due to expire the end of this month, Qantas Airways has proposed that the federal government pay for training for employees.
The long-delayed electronic Pilot Records Database (PRD), required by US legislation more than 10 years ago, is “in final review,” according to FAA Administrator Steve Dickson, speaking to a virtual Town Hall of the National Business Aviation Association. Dickson, however, did not specify exact timing for the new rule.
Many airlines have a history of a re-birth and making the changes that move to a new reality, and no more so than during the present challenging times. Chris Long examines a re-emerging phoenix.
High-risk pilots generally perceive much less risk on unstable approaches and do not feel they will be reprimanded. US Affairs Editor Chuck Weirauch looks at the on-going dilemma of go-around decision-making.
With a £1.2-million grant from the UK Research and Innovation’s Future Flight Challenge, the first “urban air port” for electric aircraft is to be built in the heartland.
In collaboration with EASA, Halldale Group recently hosted a Heads of Training (HoT) interactive online workshop with about 40 leaders from airlines, aviation training organisations, and academia. EATS Chair Capt. Jacques Drappier provides a summary of the workshop’s highlights.
At the proverbial 11th hour, the EU and UK worked out a continuity agreement for aviation, post-Brexit. Naveed Kapadia, Founder and Director of aviation business and management consultancy INQUISITIF, examines the impacts on training organisations, pilots, cabin crew and maintenance engineers.