In this new CAT Guest Commentary, Steven Green examines the threat-and-error management
model's effectiveness and limitations in crew cognitive assessment and threat management.
Dr. Sunjoo Advani underscores the vital role of comprehensive UPRT training for pilots, emphasizing its importance beyond regulatory compliance to ensure aviation safety and proficient handling in critical situations.
Guest authors Dr. Sunjoo Advani & Captain Filippos Siakkas provide insights on why the national flag carrier of Kazakhstan has adapted its previous compliance-based UPRT program to one that aims to also enhance pilot manual handling skills far more deeply.
The aviation industry has an excellent record of flight safety – due, in part, to stringent pilot medical standards. However, it is possible that some of these standards could be outdated or unnecessarily strict.
In this guest commentary, Dr William Cox explains how competency-based pilot training could be a way of reducing millions in operating expenses due to D&Cs and increasing revenues by decreasing the number of dissatisfied passengers.
Researchers at NASA’s Armstrong Flight Research Center in Edwards, California are exploring how passengers may experience an air taxi ride by building a custom virtual reality flight simulator.
One feature of the future of aviation training was clear to see at the recent EATS, the presence of many delegates, clutching hand-held controls, with their faces obscured by VR google-facemasks. Conor Keeling, an A330 Captain for a major European airline, flying for 33 years and 20,000 hours since 1981, discusses his observations of EATS 2021.