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Chuck Weirauch reports from the recent Heli-Expo conference held in Orlando, Florida, USA. Safety management systems (SMS) and the coming need for helicopter operators to implement them into their safety programs and training manuals, as well as into the company culture, were a major theme at the 2015 Heli-Expo conference held March 2-5... 22 July 2015
“As long as there is a physical path that connects both domains, we can't discard a potential attack.” That’s the conclusion of Ruben Santamarta, Principal Security Consultant at IOActive, a global information security services firm based in Seattle, Washington, US and London, UK. “Avionics should be located in the aircraft control domain,... 22 July 2015
Worldwide statistics show that excursion-related business aviation accidents are up to 60 percent higher than those for commercial aircraft. Chuck Weirauch takes a look at how the industry is incorporating enhanced training to remedy these statistics. While runway excursions are a leading cause of accidents for both commercial and business aviation operations, they... 22 July 2015
As the FAA moves towards NextGen implementation, so do trainers of the air traffic controllers of tomorrow. Robert W. Moorman explores how the US is meeting is trying to meet the demand for more controllers. The FAA faces the daunting challenge of hiring enough air traffic controllers to meet the projected air traffic demand while ensuring... 22 July 2015
SIMULATOR MANUFACTURER Historically the use of hydraulic systems for flight simulation motion platforms has proven to be both highly reliable and cost effective. More recently there has been competition from electric actuator manufacturers which elaborate their attributes. A paper, which is available to view at www.halldale.com/insidesnt/airline on Flight Simulator Motion... 22 April 2015
SOFTWARE Britannica Knowledge Systems is launching two new capabilities, a more advanced optimizer and a bidding module. Both are designed to increase airline and training provider scheduling and planning efficiency. The new rules-based optimizer enables training operations to create valid training schedules and plans that comply with regulatory and contractual... 22 April 2015
ATC TRAINING eyevis and Antycip Simulation have announced the successful completion of their upgrade project for Skyguide, the organisation responsible for air safety in Swiss and adjoining airspaces. The project involved modernising the TOSIM Blue tower simulator, to improve its performance in training situations, through greater resolution, colour depiction and... 22 April 2015
REGULATIONS The European Aviation Safety Agency has published its proposals for the future of the aviation regulatory system. These proposals, presented as an 'EASA Opinion', are the outcome of consultation with stakeholders which started in September 2014. Among others, EASA proposes that when national authorities have a lack of resources... 22 April 2015
FLIGHT SIMULATOR Alsim and Flight Simulator Trader have started a cooperation which has led to a sale of a FNPTII MCC. The device, an AL200 MCC trainer was sold to UAB Aerojet, taking over the device for Akademija Grazdanskoj Aviacii, Kazakhstan, whose subsidiary company Training Center Part-FCL will be the... 22 April 2015
MAINTENANCE TRAINING Signifying Airbus' latest milestone to become even closer to its customers and partners and to support them around the globe Airbus and SIA Engineering Company Limited (SIAEC) have entered into an agreement to provide maintenance and engineering training services for Airbus aircraft in Singapore. Through this collaboration, SIAEC... 22 April 2015
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