The Aircrew Training Policy Group, an independent cadre of subject experts who help to advise EASA, unofficially, on near-term issues and long-term strategies for flight training, has a new cast of characters and a range of ambitious projects. Rick Adams, FRAeS, spoke with ATPG Chair, Capt. Andy Mitchell, FRAeS.
“ATPG is very much a tactical group. Can we help the industry to have better communication channels, be able to speak and talk quicker to identify pain points and really just get feedback in both directions”, Capt. Mitchell told CAT. The former GB Airways and easyJet pilot and A320 trainer took on the Chairperson’s role of the Aircrew Training Policy Group earlier this year, succeeding Capt. Andy O’Shea, FRAeS (former Head of Flight and Cabin Crew Training for Ryanair and now CEO of Airline Pilot Club). Mitchell founded the Madrid, Spain-based aviation tech company, Use Before Flight, which focuses on evidence-based training solutions.
“We come to the group as independent experts within the industry. We’re not an official advisory group and therefore we are not political at all. We are purely technical. When something comes up from one of our sub-groups where we want to feed it back to EASA, we do it via the right channels”, Mitchell explained.
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