AVIATION VOICES

How Amelia Learns from Past Realities

August 11, 2025October 27, 2025

By Cedric Paillard, CEO, The Airline Pilot Club (APC)

The history of AI is rich with promise – but also lessons in failure, overhype, and underperformance. Early AI efforts often failed to deliver on their lofty promises due to inadequate computing power, narrow rule-based approaches, and a lack of robust data governance. These shortcomings led to the so-called “AI winters” – periods of diminished funding and confidence in AI technologies.

Amelia has been designed with full awareness of this context.

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Thinking of Travelling to the US for Business?

July 25, 2025July 31, 2025

By Rick Adams, FRAeS

After several years as the Chair of a major airline pilot training conference, held annually in the spring in Florida, USA (and attending for more than 20 years as moderator, exhibitor, etc.), I will sadly not participate in the event next year.

One reason is that I cannot, as a foreign national (Swiss), be confident of safe entry into (and out of) the United States. At least not until freedom of speech and due process are re-established.