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How can the aviation industry use today’s technologies to improve pilot performance? Let’s discuss these subjects to make the sky safer, together!

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Evidence Based Training: How to improve this concept in regular line operations

Evidence Based Training: How to improve this concept in regular line operations

Evidence Based Training (EBT) is today on everyone’s lips. Before the 16th Asia Pacific Airline Training Summit (APATS) 2019, Captain Pierre Wannaz takes the initiative to raise again the discussion around some pilots’ training problematics […]

Flight safety and pilots’ line training tools: a new winning team!

Flight safety and pilots’ line training tools: a new winning team!

Today is the opening day of the World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) 2019. Now flight safety and pilot training are more than ever on everybody’s lips. Let’s discuss openly ideas to move things forward on […]

Flight data and human perception: A huge potential still to be better exploited!

Flight data and human perception: A huge potential still to be better exploited!

How can we improve the quality and mitigate risks related to flight operations? Before the World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) 2019, let’s lay down together some cornerstones for a discussion to move things forward regarding […]

Safety-II: the brand new concept of the “complex” Swiss Cheese Model 2/2

Here is the 2nd part of Captain Pierre Wannaz blog article about the Swiss Cheese Model. Pilot training and pilot debriefing are some linchpins of flight safety. Let’s discuss openly this subject before the World […]

Safety-II: the brand new concept of the “complex” Swiss cheese model 1/2

Pilot training and pilot debriefing are some linchpins of flight safety. Before the World Aviation Training Summit (WATS) 2019, let’s discuss openly this subject! Here is a new series of articles by our Senior Advisor, […]

Pilot training devices versus line operations: a brand new approach to enhance training in civil aviation

For the opening day of the European Airline Training Symposium (#EATS) and my 5th blog article, I chose to compare the pro and cons of simulator sessions versus real-life line operations for pilot training. One […]

Global pilot shortage: How can we sustain the worldwide demand?

Global pilot shortage: How can we sustain the worldwide demand?

Latest estimations for the future pilot demand shows astronomical figures, between 700,000 and 800,000 in the next 20 years, depending on the sources. Can the aviation industry succeed in training so many pilots and can […]

Pilot training challenges: Discover new approaches!

Pilot training challenges: Discover new approaches!

To share our ideas about how to take on today's pilot training challenges, we will publish with our Senior Advisor Pierre Wannaz during the next weeks some points of view in various articles every Tuesday. Keep […]

How can we massively improve pilots’ performances with today’s technology?

How can we massively improve pilots’ performances with today’s technology?

Today, aviation is facing many challenges. Here is the 1st article of our modest contribution about how to take them on, beginning with the importance of an objective flight debriefing and using today's technology to […]