Naveed Kapadia, Founder and Director of aviation business and management consultancy INQUISITIF, examines the challenge of extended absence from the cockpit.
In Denmark, higher education is free … but not pilot training.
Anna Kjær Thorsøe, General Manager / CTKI of Center Air Pilot Academy (CAPA) discusses attracting students and helping them to be attractive to airline interviewers.
In the 12-year period he conducted more than 430 one-on-one human factor sessions with pilots who had not yet met the required standard in the simulator or on the flight line, Lex Rock Heemstra analysed the trends and pitfalls which resulted in those pilots requiring additional training.
Instructors need standards… and the ability to adapt their teaching methods – for pilots returning from furlough, for different learning styles, and for new instructional media. Regional airline training veteran Paul Preidecker shares his experienced opinions on expectations of flight instructors.
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.
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.
The burden of communicating in “Aviation English” has fallen largely on ESL speakers. Paul Stevens argues the problem is the responsibility of all aviators.
Mark Dransfield, co-founder of Sim Ops and independent Flight Simulation Training Device regulatory consultant, discusses what happens to long-term support of your Flight Simulation Training Device when the TDM goes out of business.
Try this combination: (1) learning a new airplane, (2) adapting to a new way of flying, (3) limited ATC and other resources (4) managing crew risk in a pandemic, and (5) navigating through the smoke of massive wildfires. Regional airline training veteran Paul Preidecker describes his new career flying on-call medical missions.