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The Australian Civil Aviation Safety Authority released a Crew Resource Management training package mid-2010 designed to provide training material to general aviation and Low Capacity RPT (LCRPT) operators. Titled “Safety Behaviours: Human Factors for Pilots”, the toolkit includes a DVD and a number of work booklets that can be used to supplement existing classroom-based group [...]
In episode 5 of Flight Podcast we talk with John King of King Schools. Kings Schools has a hand in training over 50% of the pilot population in the United States at some point in their career via a library of over 90 courses that can be completed using interactive DVD’s or online via their [...]
In our most recent episode of Flight Podcast we talk to Janine Shepherd. Janine Shepherd was a champion cross-country skier in training for the Winter Olympics when her life was suddenly and irrevocably altered during a training bicycle ride to the Blue Mountains west of Sydney. A speeding utility truck struck Janine and shattered her [...]
Between trying to record and produce for an Australian based aviation TV program, podcasting (which is taking for more time than any of our participants ever expected – due in part to the extroadinary popularity of it after only one episode) and a hectic international schedule, the posts to this blog have dropped off a [...]
The FAA freely releases all their questions and answers making them a useful took for flying schools engaged in that level of training. The data, however, is often difficult to implement into other online applications because the data is generally disseminated as a text file or PDF. We’ve parsed the data into a MySQL database [...]
Karlene Petitt wrote an interesting article on visualisation last week, and how it can be used to accelerate progress and improve performance on the flight deck (in the learning environment). It’s an interesting topic – partly because it’s a technique I use myself, and one that I’ve encouraged my students to use – but also [...]
I’ve just uploaded a Cessna 441 training program to CessnaConquest.net. The generic systems content is designed to assist pilots undertaking Conquest type ratings/endorsements; or it can be used as a systems refresher for those pilots that fly it. I used this program at a previous company so quite a few of the references to SOP’s [...]
Jetstar has launched a cadet pilot training program in Australia and New Zealand to support the airline’s expanding Asian-Pacific operations. The program was jointly developed by the Oxford Aviation Academy based in Moorabbin and the CTC Aviation Group, based in Hamilton, New Zealand – both in consultation with Jetstar. The airline will – upon successful [...]
This post was written a number of years ago for a flight training website. It is replicated here with a few minor modifications (but fails to address more recent developments in the MCPL/cadet programs) as an introduction to what will come next – a post on Jetstar’s Cadet Program. Although it was written with an [...]
Attitude for airspeed and power for rate of descent on approach is the methodology of choice for most flight training organisations involved in elementary pilot training – but is it correct? The short answer is yes and the long answer… well, kind of remains yes – but that doesn’t mean that there’s possibly a better [...]
This is one of the most disturbing videos that I have ever seen. It’s taken from the inside of Beechcraft Bonanza and shows a pilot in formation with an L39, flying in marginal VMC conditions around mountainous terrain. The pilot ‘inadvertently’ enteres cloud at low altitude and comes within inches of killing all on board [...]
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From all of the contributors at flight.org, we would like to wish you all the best of the holiday … [Read More...]
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