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MR Flight Training Now a Reality
This spring, I exchanged a series of messages with Mario Ackerman, Brunner’s enthusiastic sales manager, inviting me to a “not to be missed” event, to be held at the Lufthansa Training Center (LAT). I was skeptical. There’s so much hype in the market about ‘revolutionary’ products, most of which aren’t. And Brunner volunteered no details.… Read more
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Rotorcraft U.
UND Aerospace claims to be the first collegiate program to adopt a formal four-pillar safety management system (SMS) to identify, assess, analyze and control risk, and the first college/ university to implement a flight data monitoring system. Robert W. Moorman profiles the University of North Dakota John D. Odegard School of Aeronautical Sciences. Read more
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The ‘Flywheel’ of the Training Ecosystem
A Conversation with CAE CTO / CPO Abha Dogra by Rick Adams, FRAeS Today we have almost 886 full-flight simulators integrated into our data lake. We are sitting on top of 2.5PB (petabytes) of training data, which relates to evaluating the insights at the time of training. To convert that into effectively help the pilots… Read more
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Hands-Free Cockpit Design? No Longer Hollywood Fantasy
A Clint Eastwood movie 40 years ago, Firefox, focuses on a prototype Russian fighter jet which Eastwood’s character, Major Mitchell Gant USAF (Retired), attempts to steal. The Mach 5 stealth aircraft features a weapons system with a neuralink to the pilot’s brain, able to read the pilot’s thoughts and enable him to aim and fire… Read more
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Hidden in Plane Sight
Human Trafficking by air is the crime few want to talk about, but formal training of aircrews and airport personnel could reduce the global problem. We here reprint Robert W. Moorman’s report, which appeared in CAT magazine in 2016 and won an Aerospace Media Award. Read more
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Confronting the Blaze
Award-winning aviation journalist Robert W. Moorman explores how experienced pilots of fixed-wing and rotorcraft prepare to become aerial firefighters. (Article originally published in 2020 in The Journal of Civil Aviation Training.) Read more