2012: a seminal year for our industry?

Flight simulation and training is rarely uneventful, but I believe that 2012 will be a seminal year for our industry with major developments within individual organisations eclipsed only by the ...

Performance-based Regulation

I was encouraged, recently, by the speech given by Randy Babbitt, the administrator of the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) at the RAeS, and intrigued by an article by David ...

The value of training at home

I wrote recently about the ‘unpalatable truth’ with regards training, and how some of the most basic piloting skills are still seriously lacking. There is also the issue not just ...

Facing an unpalatable truth

It has taken some 20 years for the aviation industry to wake up to an unpalatable truth: pilots are not as well trained as they used to be. Despite the ...

Show me the evidence

Pilots are some of the most highly regulated professionals in the world, and the most highly trained. How they are trained, however, is a constant source of discussion and debate. ...

Industry needs closer ties with academia

I had the great honour recently of being elected chairman of the Royal Aeronautical Society (RAeS) Flight Simulation Group (FSG) committee – a body established specifically to help promote and ...