The COVID-19 pandemic has created many questions about aviation training: How do furloughed pilots maintain recency? How do flight schools continue their training when pilots are isolating at home? How will training organizations handle a surge of necessary type conversions if airlines overhaul their fleets in favor of more fuel-efficient aircraft?
Safe and efficient flight operations rely on pilots' management of their mental resources; in particular, ensuring that (as far as is possible) reason, planning and logic are the main drivers of their behaviour and not raw emotion. Captain Owen Sims' presentation explains further.
The International Business Aviation Council recently conducted its annual International Standard for Business Aircraft Handling standards board meeting where it virtually introduced the members for 2020-2021.
Skyborne Airline Academy is giving prospective cadets a ‘Flying Start’, by temporarily waiving selection fees for all EASA/UKCAA Integrated and Combined Modular ATPL applicants.
Even before 9-11, and especially with the continuous growth of commercial aviation since the financial crisis of 2008, every conference and every aviation publication, even business publications, would debate the pilot shortage.
The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association and the AOPA Air Safety Institute have created two guides to help operators and pilots safely return to flight and facilitate a strategic return to normal operations, as states modify social distancing restrictions amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
Calling aviation “a key driver of the economic recovery,” Alexandre de Juniac, Director General and CEO of IATA, vowed that “aviation will always put safety and security first” in unveiling a proposed, temporary, layered approach to biosecurity for re-starting passenger flights amid the COVID-19 crisis.